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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Beard, Komarek
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... 'In this particular paper, as a fire ecologist, I am not primarily interested in the economic use of fire for man, but rather in the ecological relations of fire to plants, animals, and man in those interesting and sometimes peculiar adjustments, preadaptations…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kull
From the text ... 'Madagascar is aflame. Every year, fires consume up to half of the island's vast grasslands and thousands of square kilometers of its rainforests and secondary brush.... Madagascar's fire problem is a source of long-standing conflict between the sate and the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
[no description entered]
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Slik, Verburg, Kebler
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nowak, Kershaw, Kershaw
Postfire development of cover and diversity was studied in an upland Picea mariana-dominated forest in theCanadian Subarctic. Short-term vegetation responses of 10- and 22-year-old cleared rights-of-way and a forest site were investigated two and three growing seasons after a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stambaugh, Muzika, Guyette
The Eck Memorial Natural Area is the largest old-growth shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) forest in Missouri, USA. The objectives of this study were to characterize vegetation, examine historic and contemporary disturbances, and describe potential vegetation changes for this…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vasiliauskas, Chen
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simons, Schwab, Otto
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sánchez-Velásquez, Ezcurra, Martínez-Ramos, Álvarez-Buylla, Lorente
Summary1. Zea Diploperennis is a wild relative of maize that is endemic to the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Because this species is a priority for conservation in the reserve, the effects on its populations of the most common types of anthropogenic…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Harvey, Gauthier
The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pilz, Molina
Widespread commercial harvesting of wild edible mushrooms from the forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW-US) began 10-15 years ago. A large proportion of suitable forest habitat in this region is managed by the Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miyanishi, Johnson
Postfire tree recruitment in the boreal forest is restricted to patches from which the duff (organic layer) has been removed by fire. Duff consumption occurs by smoldering combustion, propagation of which is determined by bulk density, moisture content, and depth. This study…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDaniel, Ross
Snakeweeds (broom, Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britt & Rusby); and threadleaf, G. microcephala (DC.) Gray) fall into that class of poisonous weeds that seldom cause direct livestock losses because they are highly unpalatable and animals rarely consume large quantities of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wierzchowski, Heathcott, Flannigan
This study examines the influences of fuel, weather and topography on lightning-caused forest fires in portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The results show a significant difference in lightning and ligntning-caused fires east and west of the Continental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lussier, Morin, Gagnon
The mortality pattern of 14 black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands from the Saguenay region (Quebec), originating from fire or clear-cutting in the early 20th century, was reconstructed based on the dendrochronological dating of dead trees. Most of the spruces died…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chipman, Johnson
One of the goals of ecosystem management has been to maintain plant specie diversity. Emulating the "natural” (pre-European) fire regime is often proposed as a means of accomplishing this goal in fire-influenced boreal forest ecosystems. Here we examine this hypothesis as it…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radley
From the text:'The peat in many parts of Britain is being severly eroded by subaerial forces, but the fire provides a method of erosion not previously emphasized. It removes whole tracts of peat and plant cover in a matter of days and permits intensive erosion for several years…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
Nonriparian woodlands occur on escarpments and other topographic break throughout the grassland province of central North America. Grassland vegetation is mainly correlated with gently sloping or flat terrain mantled by deep, transported soils of Pleistocene or younger age.…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS