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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adkisson
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beck
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'The natural history of lightning wherever studied has shown a preponderance of evidence that:(1) Lightning is an inherent component of the earth's atmosphere and is ecologically fully as important as such better known factors as temperature, rainfall,…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Requa
From the text ... 'The Yukon Forest Service, a section of the Resources Division, Northern Administration Branch, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources is responsible for forest fire protection and forest management in the Territory. This includes fire prevention…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spencer, Hakala
From the 'Summary of Fire and Moose Relationships ... 1. Vegetation immediately following the 1947 Burn was largely determined by the previous stand. Revegetation was through both vegetative and seeding reproduction. Types following the fire were numerous and variable in…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruhn
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIlroy
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arnold, Jameson, Reid
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gauvin
Gives observations to date on 5 plots. Populus tremuloides and Betula papyrifera predominate in many areas; regeneration of Abies Balsamea and Picea Mariana is patchy.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Darling
From the text...'In this Alaskan reconnaissance, I believe we were the first workers to point out that the caribou was a creature of climax vegetation-the lichen tundra-and the moose one of mid-successional vegetation. We became aware of the liberation of the shrub growth of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Clements, Elliott, George
The first part of this report presents the results of further tests of fires in wood cribs. In one series of tests cribs of the same height and structure but with different areas, or horizontal cross-sections, were burned in still air to determine the effect of size of burning…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brayshaw
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keddy
Assembly rules provide one possible unifying framework for community ecology. Given a species pool, and measured traits for each species, the objective is to specify which traits (and therefore which subset of species) will occur in a particular environment. Because the problem…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating experienced in the vegetation, forest…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Fast
[no description entered]
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Titus, Woodard, Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gaughan, Piacitelli, Chen, Law, Virji, Edwards, Enright, Schwegler-Berry, Leonard, Wagner, Kobzik, Kales, Hughes, Christiani, Siegel, Cox-Ganser, Hoover
Respiratory problems are common among wildland firefighters. However, there are few studies directly linking occupational exposures to respiratory effects in this population. Our objective was to characterize wildland fire fighting occupational exposures and assess their…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Sharples, Matthews, Plucinski
There is currently no fundamental understanding of the effects of topography on the behaviour of fires burning over a landscape. While a number of empirical models are employed operationally around the world, the effects of negative slopes on fire spread are ignored in all but…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strycker
From the text ... 'Noah Strycker's new book, 'The Thing with Feathers' provides a wonderful response to the relative who likes to remind you that you could have made more money working as an engineer. The inspiration the study of birds invokes may seem unusual to curmudgeonly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS