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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Grace, Smith, Grace, Collins, Stohlgren
A substantial number of invasive grasses, forbs and woody plants have invaded temperate grasslands in North America. Among the invading species are winter annuals, biennials, cool-season perennials, warm-season perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Many of these species have…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Pyke
Invasive plants and fire create substantial challenges for land managers in the deserts of North America. Invasive plants can compete with native plants, alter wildlife habitat, and promote the spread of fire where it was historically infrequent. Increased fire frequency in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coloff
From the Preface ... 'The basic mission of the Joint Fire Science Program is to provide the scientific basis and rationale for implementing fuels management activities, with emphasis on the development and application of information for resource managers. The Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swengel
This literature review concerns insect responses to fire, compared to other feasible and appropriate conservation managements of open habitats. Many insect groups decline markedly immediately after fire, with the magnitude of reduction related to the degree of exposure to the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sparrow, Bellingham
From the text...'In a critique of our paper (Bellingham and Sparrow 2000) that proposed a non-linear trade-off between biomass allocation to resprouting and seeding, Pausas (2001) raises some questions about the general applicability of our model. Three issues arise from Pausas'…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saab, Vierling
Lewis*s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) has been characterized as a "burn specialist” because of its preference for nesting within burned pine forests. No prior study, however, has demonstrated the relative importance of crown-burned forests to this woodpecker species by examining…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Nieuwstadt, Sheil, Kartawinata
In 1997-1998 over 50,000 km2 of East Kalimantan burned, affecting some 23,000 km2 of natural forest concessions. This is nearly one-quarter (24%) of the area of all natural forest concessions in the province (Hoffmann et al. 1999). The biomass of the trees living at the time of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text... 'Fire is a key ecological process within most ecosystems in the United States and Canada. An understanding of factors controlling the initial response of vegetation to fire is essential to its management. Fire effects on plants can vary significantly among fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
At the request of public and private wildland fire managers who recognized a need to assimilate current fire effects knowledge, we produced this state-of-the-art integrated series of documents relevant to management of ecosystems. The series covers our technical understanding of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wong, Lertzman
Errors in estimates of tree ages from increment cores can influence age-class distributions, affecting inferences about forest dynamics. We compare methods of height correction of increment cores taken above ground level by examining how resulting errors affect age-class…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Uncertainty in surface-fire history: the case of ponderosa pine forests in the western United States
Present understanding of fire ecology in forests subject to surface fires is based on fire-scar evidence. We present theory and empirical results that suggest that fire-history data have uncertainties and biases when used to estimate the population mean fire interval (FI) or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
This first approximation assessment of old-growth forests in Alberta, Canada, presents tabular summaries of selected old-growth attributes and elucidates some themes of old-growth forest development, structure, function, distribution, and conservation status. Forest types…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hjerpe, Hedenas, Elmqvist
In 1990 and 1991, Samoa was struck by two cyclones, Ofa and Val. In the Tafua Rain Forest Preserve on the island of Savai*i, one part of the forest also burned after the first cyclone. Here we report on patterns of regeneration and changes in tree species composition in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Herr, Wetzel, Thompson, Reader
Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) does not regenerate well in the absence of fire, or without mechanical exposure of mineral soil, while balsam fir (Abies balsamea L. Mill.) is a common understory species on sites occupied by white pine. We conducted two experiments to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brais, David, Ouimet
In August of 1995, wildfires burnt over 50 000 ha of boreal forest in northwestern Quebec. A balance sheet approach was used in order to assess the long term effects of fire and subsequent salvage harvesting operations on nutrient site capital. Following a validation of burn…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Vertinsky, Schreier, Blackwell
Concerns about fire in North American forest management are shifting from a strict focus on fire prevention to a broader view which considers fire accommodation and fire emulation as management alternatives. There is a substantial gap between the articulation of general…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Buddle, Spence, Langor
To test whether spider succession following harvest differed from succession following wildfire, spiders were collected by pitfall trapping and sweep netting over two years in aspen-dominated boreal forests, Over 8400 individuals is from 127 species of spiders were identified…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hansen, Rotella, Kraska, Brown
Landscapes are often heterogeneous in abiotic factors such as topography, climate, and soil, yet little 15 known about how these factors may influence the spatial distribution of primary productivity. We report estimates of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in 90…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robichaud, Hungerford
Highly variable water repellent soil conditions have been reported after forest fires. We examined interactions among heating, soil water content and soil texture on water repellency. Undisturbed, 305 mm diameter cores were collected in the field from four soils commonly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
Historic fire regimes are widely advocated as guides for the reintroduction of natural fire processes into North American wildlands. However, the fire history of most sites is unknown. Current fire regime constructs provide generalized information for some vegetation types, but…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Little is known about spatial and temporal variability in fire frequencies at landscape scales (1,000s to I 00,000s of ha), or about the factors that determine the spatial patterns of fir., frequency at these scales. Historical archives of wildfire perimeters (fire atlases) are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Allen
Relatively frequent surface fires recurred for centuries in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the Southwest before intensive live stock grazing and active fire suppression by government agencies began. The available evidence suggests that extensive (> 100 ha) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman
We characterized historical fire regimes in order to understand their influence on forest structure in dry mixed-conifer forests in the southern interior of British Columbia. In the unroaded Stein River watershed, we sampled fire scarred trees (163) and cored trees for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS