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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Justice, Giglio, Korontzi, Owens, Morisette, Roy, Descloitres, Alleaume, Petitcolin, Kaufman
Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Zhang
Most FVS insect and disease model extensions are a blend of process modeling and empirical relationships. Because of the process elements, insect and disease models can present unexpected results when simulated conditions are unlike those tested when the model was developed.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCarter
The Lanscape Management System (LMS) is an evolving Microsoft Windows™ application that integrates forest inventory information, spatial information, growth models, computer visualization software, and analysis software into a landscape-level analysis tool. This paper presents…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGaughey
Stand structure, often quantified using the percent canopy cover associated with various structural layers, is an important characteristic used when modeling ecosystem diversity and function. A model is presented, PERCOVE, that classifies individual trees in a stand into…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton
Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) multipliers permit the user to tailor model performances to simulate almost any management scenario. Unfortunately, the intuitively logical choice of multipliers is not always the corrent choice and could result in biologically impossible…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berry, Buckley, McGarigal
The ARC/INFO system is a powerful GIS that is widely used by natural resource organizations. FRAGSTATS is an extensively used program that derives a comprehensive set of useful landscape metrics. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest growth and yield model used…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snowdon
The British Columbia Forest Service has recently built a suite of Windows based tools to enable its diverse client base to conduct FVS runs in a used-friendly computer environment. The tools are (1) DATAprog -- a generic treelist builder/data translator; (2) SIMprog -- a single…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crookston
Suppose -- a graphical user interface for the Forest Vegetation Simulator -- simplifies the task of simulating the changes in forest vegetation for a long timespan and a landscape spatial scope. This introduction of Version 1 of Suppose presents the system's goals and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
The author looks back on two decades of personal experience and impressions of Prognosis history and reviews U.S. Forest Service involvement. He pays homage to the many researchers and land managers whose accumulated work over this time has brought us to today's Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This provided a forum to learn…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin, Duffy
In the boreal biome, fire is the major disturbance agent affecting ecosystem change, and fire dynamics will likely change in response to climatic warming. We modified a spatially explicit model of Alaskan subarctic treeline dynamics (ALFRESCO) to simulate boreal vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gibson, Prepas, McEachern
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pascual, Roy, Guichard, Flierl
Three different lattice-based models for antagonistic ecological interactions, both nonlinear and stochastic,exhibit similar power-law scalings in the geometry of clusters. Specifically, cluster size distributions andperimeter-area curves follow power-law scalings. In the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reed, McKelvey
This paper examines the distribution of areas burned in forest fires. Empirical size distributions, derived from extensive fire records, for six regions in North America are presented. While they show some commonalities, it appears that a simple power-law distribution of sizes,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 31 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 10-22 March 2002.
Outline of Presentation:I. CFFDRS StructureII. Fire Weather Index Module or SubsystemIII. Fire Behavior…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Damhoureyeh, Hartnett
Forb populations were sampled on Kansas tallgrass prairie to exaniinc the effects of native (bison) and domestic (cattle) ungulates on plant growth, reproduction, and species abundances. Five locally and regionally abundant native tallgrass prairie perennials, Baptisia bracteata…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS