The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sugai, Schimel
Forest floor samples from early, intermediate and mature successional sites in the taiga of interior Alaska (USA) were exposed to 14C-labelled glucose and two phenolic acids. The results indicate that microbes present in the taiga forest floor metabolize phenolics. At all sites…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On fire. Fire behavior, fuel succession and vegetation response to fire in the Swedish boreal forest
A study was made of the relationship between fire behaviour and vegetation dynamics in the Swedish boreal forest. This paper is based on 4 papers published or submitted for publication elsewhere: the original papers are included in appendices.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (= 90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Martell, Nixon
Partial copy. Notes (Do Not Cite): The PCH migrates from summer range on the arctic coastal plain of Alaska and Yukon to winter in the forested valleys and plains of north-central Yukon and western Alaska. Lichen biomass in winter range averaged 65 g/m2, mainly Cladina and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rechel
The workshop brought together professionals in the fields of fire, weather, and spatial analysis from the USDA Forest Service, the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service, and universities. The forum enabled the diverse group of professionals to investigate…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Post
From introduction: 'Many of Alaska's estimated 170 million acres of wetlands owe their existence to permafrost. Permafrost, a layer of impermeable, frozen soil below the surface, creates wetlands in seasonally thawed soils. The value of wetlands created by permafrost bas been…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Bergeron, Camire
The concentrations and contents of organic matter and nutrients in organic deposits on the forest floor were estimated along a 231-yr chronosequence following fire at the southern limit of the boreal forest in eastern Canada. The sampling design was stratified to take into…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Soil nutrient availability was assessed on unharvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites, on a recently harvested site and on 14-year-old postharvested sites stratified into four different regeneration types defined by surface soil conditions and colonizing species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Van Cleve
Nutrient content and biomass of aboveground annual production, and nutrient content of total aboveground biomass, of 14-year-old assemblages of plants developing on harvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites were estimated by vegetation harvesting and compared…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nance, Hobbs, Radke, Ward
Airborne measurements of several gaseous and particulate chemical species were obtained in the emissions from a wildfire that burned in an old black spruce forest in Alaska during the summer of 1990 [Fire A121 in Yukon Flats]. The relative proportions of most of the measured…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Van Cleve
Surface soils on recently deposited alluvium along the Tanana River, Alaska, have an elevated pH and are high in salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. With advancing plant succession surface soil chemistry changes, and when the alder - balsam poplar stage is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seppi
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quade
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hawkes
The objective of the study was to determine the effect and interaction of peat moisture content and depth, and heat treatment (combinations of heat load and duration) on peat consumption under dependent burning conditions. Three prescribed fires were monitored to determine…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bessie
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood
A total of 53 upland mixed communities were sampled and classified into five community types: Populus tremuloides/Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Populus tremuloides/Shepherdla canadensis, Betula papyrifera-Populus tremuloides/Viburnum edule, Betula papyrifera-Populus tremuloldes/Alnus…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Field tests on the efficacy of various scolytid bark beetle pheromones to attract Ipsperturbatus (Eichhoff) were conducted from 1977 through 1992 in stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) in interior Alaska. Several pheromones attracted high numbers of L.…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report concludes that lack of forest management, non-recognition of the biological/ecological impacts, and lack of expressed professional concern have all contributed to this forest health problem. An aggressive forest restoration and forest health maintenance program to…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharnoff
This compilation is an ongoing project, and more information is welcomed. Please send to: Stephen Sharnoff, 2406 Roosevelt Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed
The objective of this report is to make a positive contribution to the health of Alaska's forests at a time of unprecedented loss due to the spruce bark beetle. Offered is a description of the impacted forest resource and a description of the current problem. An agenda for…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
A population census and the first stage of a muskox (Ovibos moschatus) habitat study was completed in 1992. Transects were established on a few sites where muskoxen were observed in late winter (early April) and were visited by helicopter in July. Ecosite, vegetation type and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Forest Health Management was requested by the Seward Ranger District to assess the current situation and to identify options that could reduce resource impacts associated with spruce beetle activity. The report concludes that the greatest benefit appears to be from thinning…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES