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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Farnum, Hall, Kruger
Understanding sense of place and related concepts often presents challenges for both managers and researchers. Inconsistent application of terms, questions regarding their origin, and a lack of awareness of research findings contribute to the ambiguity of these concepts. This…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Chandler, Rieman, Martin
Digital data loggers (thermographs) are among the most widespread instruments in use for monitoring physical conditions in aquatic ecosystems. The intent of this protocol is to provide guidelines for selecting and programming data loggers, sampling water temperatures in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Song, Saunders, Cleland, Jurgensen, Crow
To understand the accumulation of wildland fuels and fires and to develop sound new management guidelines, the most critical research needs are a synthesis and integration of our knowledge of fire ecology, ecosystem processes, and landscape ecology, with computer models and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley, Schnepf, Cohen
This publication is designed to help you minimize the risks of losing your home from wildfire. The first step is to understand wildife and how homes are destroyed. Next, consider the fire resistiveness of your house and the surrounding landscape, and take the necessary steps to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Northern Forest Cooperative is an organization that addresses forest management opportunities and challenges that are of concern to the managers of Alaska's Northern (i.e. boreal) Forest. Members of the Cooperative include managers, researchers, and landowners of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Opperman
Each decision to suppress fire reinforces a feedback cycle in which fuels continue to accumulate, risk escalates, and the tendency to suppress fires grows (Miller and others, 2003). Existing decision-support tools focus primarily on the negative consequences of fire. This guide…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship (…
Year: 2005
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parsons
Unroaded areas and areas managed as wilderness provide unique opportunities for applying wildland fire use (WFU) as a fuels management strategy and as a method for restoring historical fire regimes. But can WFU successfully restore historical fire regimes? An untested but common…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bowker, Green, Johnson, Rideout-Hanzak
The proposed project is designed to contribute to Task 1, Part 3 of RFP 2001-1 from the JFSP. Generally, the proposed study aims to improve understanding of the perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of the public regarding fire, fire risk and fire recovery techniques in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Maus
Mapping bum severity after wildfire events has been the focus of burn rehabilitation crews for decades. Burn severity can vary depending upon the type of fuel present and the duration of the fire in a given location, typically, burn severity is mapped as high, medium, or low.…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Apps
Contains information about the conference itinerary and abstracts from this conference.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maier, Ver Hoef, McGuire, Bowyer, Saperstein, Maier
We analyzed the relation between early winter distribution and density of female moose (Alces alces L.) and habitat heterogeneity in interior Alaska. We tested for effects of vegetation type, topography, distance to rivers and towns, occurrence and timing of fire, and landscape…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Randerson, Lindfors, Chapin
Understanding links between the disturbance regime and regional climate in boreal regions requires observations of the surface energy budget from ecosystems in various stages of secondary succession. While several studies have characterized fire-induced differences in surface…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Legare, Bergeron, Paré
In the western boreal forest of Quebec, black spruce stand productivity is approximately 1 m(3)/ha/year. The low productivity of these stands is often attributed to the paludification process, which is sustained by low quality black spruce litter and the influence of black…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kukavskaya
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krasnoshchekova
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Variation in nitrogen deposition and available soil nitrogen in a forest-grassland ecotone in Canada
Regional variation in nitrogen (N) deposition increases plant productivity and decreases species diversity, but landscape- or local -scale influences on N deposition are less well-known. Using ion-exchange resin, we measured variation of N deposition and soil N availability…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
Forest land conditions affect the potential of U.S. forests to sustain a wide array of forest goods and environmental services (e.g., biodiversity) that society demands. Forest survey data collected by U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scherer-Lorenzen, Korner, Schulze
One of the central research themes in ecology is evaluating the extent to which biological richness is necessary to sustain the Earth's system and the functioning of individual ecosystems. In this volume, for the first time, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saab, Powell
We summarize the findings from 10 subsequent chapters that collectively review fire and avian ecology across 40 North American ecosystems. We highlight patterns and future research topics that recur among the chapters. Vegetation types with long fire-return intervals, such as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Quadrennial Fire and Fuel Review (QFFR) represents a first time effort to produce a unified fire management strategic vision for the five federal natural resource management agencies under the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. This inaugural effort emphasizes key…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plant identification guide with pictures. The species presented in this book include both plants considered to be invasive in Alaska and lower priority exotic plants. It is not always obvious what impact a particular species will have in a new environment, and so most land…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on the physical, chemical, and biological effects of fire needed to successfully conduct ecosystem management, and effectively inform others about the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Burgan
This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS