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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Valentine, Boone
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinker, Turner, Romme
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riccardi, McCarthy
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drewa, Havstad
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brockway
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Allen, Corkidi, Egerton-Warburton, Gomez-Pompa
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frost
It is now apparent that fire once played some role in shaping all but the wettest, the most arid, or the most fire-sheltered plant communities of the United States. Understanding the role of fire in structuring vegetation is critical for land management choices that will, for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The Region 5 Hotshots currently have a request to the Mobil Fire Equipment Sub-Committee to address the issue of shortening the service life of crew carriers in the 308 vehicle class, from the current 14 year policy. The issue is supported by the mechanic representatives of this…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Michalek, Mudd
The importance of measuring and monitoring fire related ecosystem characteristics in forests is recognized and is the focus of several new studies. In this paper we present a discussion on the use of remote sensing for the study of boreal forest fire scar characteristics. Remote…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects, Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The papers in these proceedings cover a wide range of topics related to human and natural disturbance processes in forests of the boreal zone in North America and Eurasia. Topics include historic and predicted landscape change; forest management; disturbance by insects, fire,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
As fire managers we are responsible for providing the public with the most cost efficient system of fire protection and management. We are tasked with using personnel and equipment at their most efficient and safe level. To obtain these levels of efficiency and safety, we have…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuller
A major goal in satellite remote sensing of fire is to derive globally accurate measurements of the spatial and temporal distribution of burning. To date, the main sensor employed in fire and fire-scar detection has been the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Dunham, Broadgate, Aspinall, Law
A demonstration package of predictive models for assessing the risk of forest damage from wind, fire and snow has been produced which can be accessed via the World Wide Web (WWW). The paper describes how this demonstration provides a common point of access to the models and to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Loehle
Past simulation studies using a variety of models have generally agreed that climatic warming could have adverse effects on forests, including large-scale diebacks in some regions and drastic range shrinkages of many species. These effects should be most evident at biome…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville, Wotton, Stocks
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division combined with…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
This is a chapter in the book titled, Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleming, Chapin, Cramer, Hufford, Serreze
Data from a sparse network of climate stations in Alaska were interpolated to provide 1-km resolution maps of mean monthly temperature and precipitation-variables that are required at high spatial resolution for input into regional models of ecological processes and resource…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Edwards, Abbott, Barber, Anderson, Rohr
In semi-arid interior Alaska, precipitation is critical in regulating many important ecological and biogeochemical processes. For example, the growth of upland white spruce is strongly limited by growing season precipitation, and greenhouse trace gas fluxes are controlled in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elias
Thirty-one fossil beetle assemblages from central and eastern Beringia (Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge) have yielded seasonal temperature estimates for the interval 43,550-9250 14C yr before present (yr B.P.). Estimates of the mean…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Bigelow, Finney, Eisner
We investigated whether techniques developed to evaluate qualitative lake-level changes in the temperate zone can be used in sub-arctic and arctic Alaska. We focused on aquatic pollen records and sediment properties (loss-on-ignition and magnetic susceptibility) from centrally-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Eugster, McFadden, Lynch, Walker
Biome differences in surface energy balance strongly affect climate. However, arctic vegetation is considered sufficiently uniform that only a single arctic land surface type is generally used in climate models. Field measurements in northern Alaska show large differences among…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Alexander, Stocks, Kasischke
Chapter 7 of the book titled, Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS