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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
The Waring Mountains Wildfire of 1988 burned 209,366 acres (84,727 ha) of the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in NW Alaska, transecting the migration route of the Western Arctic Caribou herd. This study was undertaken to describe and follow the response of the vegetation after…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text ... 'In the past, fire suppression was seen as a standard method for dealing with forest fires. Today, foresters view fire as an essential instrument of forest regeneration, contributing to a greater diversity of flora and fauna. 'Fire plays a natural role and we'…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi
From the text... 'Summary: Despite the occurrence of fire and the presence of large grazing herds of caribou in the subarctic, the major factor determining the open-canopy nature of the subarctic spruce-lichen woodland is climate. Thus, unlike other transitional open-canopy…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak openings currently are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan, Lautenschlager, Wagner
1. This study was designed to test the hypotheses that (i) abundance and related demographic parameters of small mammal populations would decline after clearcutting of northern spruce-fir forest, and (ii) prescribed burning, following clearcutting, an approach to emulating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, MuellerRowat, Clark, Pinto
The effects of organic matter removal, ashes and shading were investigated on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) emergence using soil monoliths in greenhouse conditions. Two hundred (18 cm width x 30 cm length x 25 cm depth) soil monoliths (50 from each of four sites…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Valiente-Banuet, Flores-Hernández, Verdu, Dávila
A comparative study between an unburned evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation located in south-central Mexico under a wet-summer climate, with mediterranean regions was conducted in order to re-analyze vegetation and plant characters claimed to converge under mediterranean…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker, Kessler
Abstract only...'We have conducted a three-year investigation of the habitat relationships of forest birds and mammals that inhabit the Sub-boreal Spruce Plateau (SBSmk1) of central British Columbia. Our study was designed to test assumptions and practices of British Columbia's…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wattenberg
From the text...'Independent observers who know the status of the park today say that the rosy picture presented by the National Park Service and by ecologists quoted in this article is not accurate.'
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Knight, Franklin
We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)--fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods--in terms of the physical processes involved, the damage patterns they create in forested landscapes, and the potential impacts…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme, Everham, Frelich, Moritz, Sparks
In this article, we develop a heuristic model of ecosystem-disturbance dynamics that illustrates a range of responses of disturbance impact to gradients of increasing disturbance extent, intensity, or duration. Three general kinds of response are identified and illustrated: (a)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paine, Tegner, Johnson
All species have evolved in the presence of disturbance, and thus are in a sense matched to the recurrence pattern of the perturbations. Consequently, disturbances within the typical range, even at the extreme of that range as defined by large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs),…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS