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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
Hennon, Mask, Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1993. All of Alaska experienced the driest summer in almost 75 years. Spruce bark beetle now is infesting in excess of 700,000 acres. Hardwood defoliator activity has decreased from…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Mann
Fire history in a forested, 550 ha second-order basin (basin P6) of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska, was reconstructed from 21 replicated fire scars on black spruce trees and age structures of fire post-fire stands of black spruce and paper…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieffers, Macdonald, Hogg
Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beauv. is a widely distributed rhizomatous grass that can seriously inhibit growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings in the boreal forests of North America. We review the dynamics of this grass during four successional…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This report presents impressions and opinions on the current large and rapidly increasing spruce beetle infestation in south-central Alaska.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lange
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, Yakushkin, Pospelova
Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) introduced to formerly occupied areas in northern Alaska (70 degrees N) in 1969 and 1970, and the Taimyr Peninsula (75 degrees N) in 1974 and 1975 increased in number (exceeding 20 %/year in the early years following their establishment), and have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kevan, Tikhmenev, Usui
Pollination systems in the boreal zone range from generalist to specialist, both entomologically and botanically. The relative importance of wind pollination, insect pollination, sexual separation between and within plants, and between flowers, hermaphroditism of flowers, and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Because organisms have adapted to the natural disturbance regimes o f forest ecosystems such as fires and windfalls, conservationists often suggest that timber harvesting systems be designed to imitate natural disturbance regimes. Using the crown fires that shape true boreal…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engelmark
Age and size structures of saplings of Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris and Betula pubescens were examined in a 26yr old forest fire area in a Picea abies-Vaccinium myrtillus forest in northern Sweden. Picea, which is a shade-tolerant species, had its maximum regeneration prior to…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crête, Huot
The range used for calving and for the first month of lactation by the Riviere George Caribou Herd (RGH), which peaked at over 600,000 individuals in the mid-eighties, showed signs of overgrazing, in contrast to that used by the adjacent Riviere aux Feuilles Herd. Density of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Degrandpré, Gagnon, Bergeron
We investigated changes in the composition and abundance of understory species after fire in the southern boreal forest around Lake Duparquet, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled in each of eight sites varying in post-fire age from 26 to 230 yr, with 20 1-m2 quadrats in each…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Dansereau
Post-fire succession was reconstructed for a sector located in the southern part of the Quebec boreal forest. Forest composition for different periods since fire was evaluated using a stand initiation map together with ecological maps representing both site conditions and stand…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions during and after burning may have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
As
Modern forestry has changed the fire dynamics in the boreal forest, and as a result the size and number of deciduous forest patches have been reduced as well as the number of deciduous trees within coniferous forests. This has exaggerated the insularity of deciduous forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS