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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce-feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Campbell, Hinkes
The North American bison (Bison bison) was common in Alaska until 200 to 300 years ago (Skinner and Kaisen 1947, McDonald 1978). Reasons for its extripation are not known although climate and habitat changes may have played a major role. The species was reintroduced to Alaska in…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud, Nolan, Curnew, Mercer
The Avalon Peninsula caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd in Newfoundland increased from 720 animals in 1967 to 3,000 animals in 1979, a mean rate of increase of r=0.12. The mean adult sex ratio was 39 males: 61 females and 73% of females were parous. Calf recruitment averaged 25%…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

DeJong, Klinkhamer
In this paper, a simulation model is presented for nutrient cycling in heathland ecosys- tems. The results of simulations are compared with field data of phosphorus and nitrogen accumulation in different compartments of the system in the years after burning, given in the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Feller
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce - feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

O'Connel, Menage
Rates of weight loss and release of N, P, K, S, Ca, Mg, Na, and Cl from litter of several species in jarrah (E. marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest were measured in relation to site fire history and soil type. Weight loss from leaf litter decreased in the order jarrah > marri (E.…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bocock
From the text...SUMMARY: 'Leaf litter of twenty-six species of trees, shrubs and woodland herbs, enclosed in coarse mesh nylon net bags, disappeared more rapidly on a soil with a mull humus form than on a soil with moder humus because large invertebrates such as earthworms and…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS