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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grime, Anderson
Taiga organisms experience an extremely short growing season and cold winter temperatures; but within the growing season, environmental conditions vary considerably among sites, ranging from cold, wet, black spruce forests on north-facing slopes to extremely warm, droughted…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flanagan
Several years ago the author started to view taiga forests in terms of an energy and nutrient limitation theory, for simplicity, separating taiga forests into two basic units - the plants and the microbes. The fauna was omitted; no doubt they are most important in mineralization…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin
The objective of this chapter is to evaluate the impact of various environmental factors and inherent growth potential to explain patterns of nutrient use and production of Alaskan taiga forest trees.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Viereck, Van Cleve
From introduction: 'Most forest communities in interior Alaska have been extensively influenced by recurring fire. To a large extent, the distribution of the dominant tree species has been shaped by fire. First-time visitors are often struck by the small-scale mosaic of forest…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harmon, Franklin, Swanson, Sollins, Gregory, Lattin, Anderson, Cline, Aumen, Sedell, Lienkaemper, Cromack, Cummins
Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kershaw, Rouse
The water relations of Cladonia alpestris in spruce-lichen woodland in northern Ontario is described. The rate of drying of the lichen canopy was measured by resistance grids inserted into the canopy and monitored during the drying cycle. The effects of dew were measured in a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hegy, Quenet
The data base of the Planning and Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests, consists of approximately 7000 forest cover maps, descriptive statistics, growth information and depletion data. This data base must be current and hence, needs to be updated annually. Maintaining an…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foster, King
(1) The Betula papyrifera (paper birch) forest of the wilderness of south-eastern Labrador is described. (2) B. papyrifera forests range in size from less than 1 ha to several km2, display sharp borders with the adjoining conifer forests and are restricted to steep slopes that…
Year: 1986
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
Curatolo, Murphy
The frequency of caribou, Rangifer tarandus, crossing of roads, pipeline, and pipelines along roads was studied in the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil fields on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Caribou crossed an elevated pipeline or a road with a frequency similar to the control…
Year: 1986
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
Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these processes come from 1) observations…
Year: 1986
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
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Evans, Allen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fredriksen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: 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
Christodoulakis, Arianoutsou-Faraggitaki, Psaras
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patterson, McMahon, Ward
Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS