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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Haggstrom, Kelleyhouse
Wildlife diversity and abundance are directly tied to the ever changing nature of the boreal forest. Wildland fire and fluvial action have been primarily responsible for maintaining diversity and productivity. However, there is an increasing need to protect people, human…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harell
Studies of ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery have shown that fire scars in Alaskan forests are significantly brighter (3-6 dB) than surrounding unburned forest. The signature varies seasonally and changes as vegetation re-establishes on the site over longer time…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
Numerical simulation of dead fuel behavior under different climatological regimes has quantified three universal characteristics of fuels: (1) response of the fuel to climatological moisture-induced stress; (2) response of the outer layers of the fuel to both standard drying…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Tree ring patterns in white spruce (Picea glauca) and Sitka spruce (P. sitchensis) from 6 sites on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska document a widespread disturbance that killed overstory trees between 1880 and 1920. During this period 18-80% of trees in sampled stands record a ring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cooper
Describes 'cloud-seeding' operations to induce precipitation from convective clouds on or near advancing fires in Alaska in June-July 1971, and attempts an assessment of the results. Rain associated with the operations fell on or near a number of fires, but there was no…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
The abundance of forage for caribou (Rangifer tarandus), mainly evergreen shrubs and terrestrial lichens, was measured at 22 locations in Newfoundland. Study areas were selected to represent plant successional stages following fires on former forest sites and in lichen woodlands…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Korhola, Virkanen, Tikkanen, Blom
1 The effects of catchment fire on lake Pieni Majaslampi are examined by means of geochemical, charcoal, pollen, and diatom analyses of surface sediments. Particular emphasis is paid to pH responses in this naturally acid, weakly buffered, small-catchment lake. 2 An increase of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Allen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fredriksen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Susott
Differential thermal, thermogravimetric, and derivative thermogravimetric analyses were used to study the effects of two important fire retardant chemicals-ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate-on the pyrolysis and combustion of cellulose. To aid in the interpretation of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wells
[from the text] Understanding the effects of prescribed burning on soil properties is important in forestry applications. If burning has no detrimental effect on soil, it can be used for fuel reduction and hardwood control. However, if burning does have an adverse influence on…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve
This study reports the first 2 years' results of a thinning and fertilization study conducted in a 70-year-old white spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. A 2.7-fold increase in tree diameter growth during this period was attributed to improved soil moisture, temperature, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Handleman
Chemicals play an increasingly important role in fire control operations. Techniques have progressed from applications of borate and bentonite slurries in the 1950's, to the current widespread utilization of long-term retardants-diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a highly toxic, nonirritating gas. One of the products of combustion, it is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and slightly lighter than air. But smoke, another combustion product, is visible. And when smoke is present, it is highly likely that CO and other…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kurz, Apps, Comeau, Trofymow
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2) is a national-scale model of forest sector carbon (C) pools and fluxes. This model has been applied to conduct a retrospective analysis of the C budget of the forests of British Columbia for the period 1920- 1989.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
Some soils with permafrost thawed deeply and become drier after forest fires, while others changed little. Soils with permafrost on the coldest and wettest landscape positions (concave to plane, lower slope positions, and north-facing midslopes) usually failed to thaw deeply…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kambis, Levine
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kellomäki, Karjalainen
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES