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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational reconstruction was aided by…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young
The structure and composition of forest edges were examined in the timberline zone of Rio Abiseo National Park in north-central Peru. Tree, shrub, and scandent plant species were inventoried in six 25 by 40 m forest plots, positioned with the long axes perpendicular to the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, Flannigan
The Canadian Climate Centre's General Circulation Model provides two 10-year data sets of simulated daily weather for a large array of gridpoints across North America. A subset of this data, comprised of only those points within the forested part of Canada, was selected for…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brice
New words are continually being introduced into our language as a result of developing technologies. This glossary offers definitions of some of the terms associated with the new technology covered in this issue-- the global positioning system (GPS). However, GPS is most often…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Maffey
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham, Rothermel
Fire managers in the Northwestern United States are often confronted by the problem of determining when precipitation might stop an ongoing fire. The possibility that a useful probability for fire-stopping precipitation could be developed from historical weather records was…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wade
Although many resource professionals believe that periodic fire is necessary to the health of fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fire exists only because society allows it. Society has given fire managers the authority to determine if, when, and how prescribed burning takes…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
The 1988 National Fire Danger System implements the Keetch-Byran Drought Index. This indexis output both as an estimator of drought in its own right and is used to modify fire danger calculations to account for deep drying of dead vefetation and duff. A method initializes this…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cobb
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tyler, D'Antonio
In circumstances where species vie for limited resources, disturbance can preclude competition by lowering population densities and thereby relieving pressure on resources. For that reason, competition is believed to be unimportant in the establishment of plant seedlings…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magagi, Berg, Goita, Belair, Jackson, Toth, Walker, McNairn, O'Neill, Moghaddam, Gherboudj, Colliander, Cosh, Belanger, Burgin, Fisher, Kim, Rousseau, Djamai, Shang, Merzouki
The Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10) was carried out in Saskatchewan, Canada, from 31 May to 16 June, 2010. Its main objective was to contribute to Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission validation and the prelaunch assessment of the proposed…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gross
The social dynamics of wildfire management can help us understand and improve fire management strategies that provide for safety, ecological processes, and economically efficient management. A 2012 paper by McCaffrey and others summarized the results of 200 social science…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests as well as for ordering a fire behavior specialist to complete the analysis. It is not intended…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Shankar, Keane, Heilman, Stavros, Fox, Riebau, Bowden, Eberhardt, Norheim
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke concentrations in the future may be more intense, more frequent, more widespread, or all of the above. In this document, we review the essential ingredients of a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutter, Jones, Zeiler
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure by comparing the composition of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES