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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Nazzaro, Bixler, Barden, Braza, Davis, Feehan, Johnson, O'Neill, Padilla, Pagano
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO is recommending that the Forest Service and BLM improve their information on whether postfire rehabilitation and restoration needs are met, and that the Forest Service augment research to help guide decisions. In commenting on a draft of this…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simon, Stratton, Forbes, Schwab
To test the assumption that forest harvesting can maintain wildlife through emulating natural disturbance, we compared small mammal abundance between seven post-fire and nine clearcut plots representing three ages since disturbance (4, 14 and 27 years). On each site, two Victor…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Slik, Verburg, Kebler
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sime
Instructions and checklist related to the care and maintenance of backpack-style fire pumps.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Management strategies for recovery of red-cockaded woodpecker populations: a metapopulation proposal
Historically, red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) populations occupied pinelands throughout the southeastern United States. Because of the landscape effects of topography and basin drainages, the historic distribution of suitable pine habitat was relatively disjunct. In…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jackson
The first recognition of conservation needs of the red-cockaded woodpecker came from biologists casually studying the species before there were endangered species laws. Their expressed concerns resulted in initial conservation efforts. Some early efforts on behalf of the species…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flerchinger, Hardegree
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Purdon, Brais, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Srivastava, Kolasa, Bengtsson, Gonzalez, Lawler, Miller, Munguia, Romanuk, Schneider, Trzcinski
Several recent, high-impact ecological studies feature natural microcosms as tools for testing effects of fragmentation, metacommunity theory or links between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. These studies combine the microcosm advantages of small size, short generation…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potvin, Bertrand
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gibson, Prepas, McEachern
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Climent, Tapias, Pardos, Gil
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Dey
Ignitions, fuels, topography, and climate interact through time to create temporal and spatial differences in the frequency of fire, which, in turn, affects ecosystem structure and function. In many ecosystems non-human ignitions are overwhelmed by anthropogenic ignitions. Human…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fralish
Communities of the central hardwood forest have been dominated primarily by oak and hickory for the past 5000 years. Over this time period, they have become keystone species within the ecosystem and are of major importance in maintaining biodiversity. Not only do the large…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear
Of the many disturbance factors that shaped hardwood forests in the eastern United States, fire was perhaps the most important. Fires ignited by Native Americans and lightning played a dominant role in sustaining oak (Quercus spp.) forests throughout the Central Hardwood Region…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
Like all forests, oak forests are continually responding to disturbances originating from both within and outside the forest. Oaks (Quercus spp.) owe their very existence to disturbance. In this context, silvicultural and other management practices can be thought of as planned…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spetich
Recent changes in upland forests of the Interior Highlands have raised the interest of and questions from professional resource specialists and the public. This renewed interest in interior Highland forests provided researchers an opportunity to update resource specialists on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kenworthy
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Noble
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS