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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lenihan, Neilson
[Complete Text] Fire regimes are especially sensitive to changes in climate, and broad scale changes in the frequency and severity of fire could be more important near-term determinates of the rates of ecosystem change than more direct effects of global warming. Simulating the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedjo
ANNOTATION: This paper undertakes a preliminary exploration into the economics of generating energy from forest-based biomass. The study assesses the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ter-Mikaelian, Korzukhin
ANNOTATION: The paper presents a comprehensive review of the biomass equations for 65 North American tree species. All equations are of the form M = aDb, where M is the oven-dry weight of the biomass component of a tree (kg), D is diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm), and a and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel, Emanuel, Rizzo, Smith, Woodward, Fisher, Kittel, McKeown, Painter, Rosenbloom, Ojima, Parton, Kicklighter, McGuire, Melillo, Pan, Haxeltine, Prentice, Sitch, Hibbard, Nemani, Pierce, Running, Borchers, Chaney, Neilson, Braswell
Management of ecosystems at large regional or continental scales and determination of the vulnerability of ecosystems to large-scale changes in climate or atmospheric chemistry require understanding how ecosystem processes are governed at large spatial scales. A collaborative…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Chaney
The potential impacts on U.S. vegetation of carbon dioxide induced global warming were analyzed for sufficient effects, either positive or negative, that might require dramatic shifts in forest management policies. The Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) was used to…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System) is a global biogeography model that simulates the potential natural vegetation that can be supported at any upland site in the world under a long-term steady-state climate. MAPSS operates on the fundamental principle that ecosystems…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Royle, Daly, Rosenbloom, Gibson, Fisher, Schimel, Berliner
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plevel
Wildland fires are destroying more homes and threatening more urban areas in the United States every year. Much of this destruction happens because more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface. A problem once thought unique to Southern California is now recognized as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Walker, Hobbs, Hooper, Lawton, Sala, Tilman
Changes in the abundance of species - especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime - affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perrings, Walker
The loss of resilience in systems characterised by multiple equilibria is indicated by a discontinuous change in the state of the system, or the transition from one locally stable state corresponding to a particular mix of species to another state corresponding to a different…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Allen
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is currently and historically has been a serious point of contention among a wide variety of people interested in sagebrush (Artemisia)bunchgrass rangelands. Nowhere are these differences more apparent than in the scientific community. Our purpose…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Burnside
This magazine article provides an update of forest health in Alaska in 1997. Major forest insect pests and diseases are discussed in light of their impacts on the forest. A brief overview of current research is offered.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zepp, Miller, Tarr, Burke, Stocks
Soil atmosphere fluxes of carbon monoxide (CO) were investigated during BOREAS 1994 (June to September 1994) in forest sites near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). Fluxes and related ancillary data were measured for both upland…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The nitrogen-productivity (N-productivity) concept represents one approach for development of algorithms for expansion from the individual tree stand or landscape levels of estimation of primary production across the Earth's surface. A simple equation based on the N-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
Regeneration of plant communities in post-disturbance boreal and sub-boreal ecosystems is discussed with particular reference to current knowledge of buried seeds (soil seed banks) and vegetative propagation, and the importance of the fire regime on plant regeneration. Fire…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
The line intersect method is usually the most efficient means of assessing the amount of downed woody debris on a site, though fixed-area plots are still used where information on the volume of individual logs and stumps is required. Several standard line intersect sampling…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saatchi, Rignot
Mapping forest cover types in the boreal ecosystem is important for understanding the processes governing the interaction of the surface with the atmosphere. In this paper, we report the results of the land-cover classification of the SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data acquired…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pruitt
The conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou, in Manitoba) is discussed. Arboreal and forest floor lichens are major components of caribou diet in the boreal forests (taiga). The major threats to caribou habitat are wild fires and clear felling. Wild fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper analyzes data from 339 large wildland fires that occurred in the Continental United States from 1971 through 1984. Each fire burned 1,000 acres (400 ha) or more. Each fire was associated with the nearest upper-air weather station and classified according to its season…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik
Knowledge of lynx (Lynx canadensis) use of burned areas is desirable to anticipate the effects of fire management in the taiga. During 1991 to 1994 we tested whether L. canadensis and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) selectively used post-fire seres during winter in the Alaskan…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Packee
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
Dead and downed woody fuels in forests are commonly estimated using the line intersect method, which requires appropriate values for specific gravity, piece tilt angle, and piece diameter. We present data for these variables for six commercially important tree species based on…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES