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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Holsten, Eggleston
Description not entered.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilgert
Baseline data from 1979 are presented on precipitation, streamflow, occurrence of permafrost, and physical and chemical water quality in a subarctic, tiaga watershed. First- to third-order streams drain catchments embracing permafrost-underlain and permafrost-free landscapes in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
Description not entered.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fahnestock
This is an attempt to characterize forest fire fuels in a new way. The immediate purpose is to provide means for recognizing and tentatively evaluating, in the field, the fire spread potential and the crowning potential of fuels on the basis of readily observed characteristics…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Curtis
This report describes the results of an aerial detection survey flown over portions of the Kenai National Moose Refuge and adjacent State and private lands to monitor a previously reported infestation of spruce beetle that has been active for several years and to obtain an up to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McEwan, Whitehead
The relationship between energy intake and body weight of reindeer and caribou are summarized. The results indicate that caloric intake was 35-45% lower in winter than during the summer growth period. The relation between heat production and body weight also exhibited a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manski
This study was undertaken to provide baseline conditions on the incidence of beetle killed spruce in Brooks Camp, the major developed area in Katmai, and to identify potential human activities that might be enhancing beetle population growth.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
[From first paragraph] Dendrochronology may be defined as the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. The concepts and techniques of the science, as presented here, reflect the work and practice of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie
Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. As the lands began to emerge from under the ice, they provided a large, varied setting for the re-…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Description not entered.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernam
Description not entered.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loughery, Kelsall
Description not entered.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Heavy grazing by extremely high densities of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea resulted in degradation of the lichen stands. Grasses, sedges, and other vascular plants initially increased in response to the removal of lichens under heavy…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Results are reported from observations on the characteristics and population dynamics of the principal climax species, Picea glauca, made in summer 1985 near Chitina. Data are presented on vegetation types (transect profiles), density of woodland (point-centred quarter technique…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Tundra rangelands of Alaska and northern Canada occupy about 200,000 and 900,000 square miles respectively. The tundra supports far lower numbers of large grazers than other natural areas, averaging less than 100 lb per square mile. Forage quality of tundra plants is high…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
Two stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), one on a south aspect and one on a north aspect on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, were sampled intensively to determine site and host variables associated with high attack densities by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hale, Culberson
The 234 genera and 2,735 species reported from the lichen flora of the continental United States and Canada are listed, and a systematic synopsis of the genera by the 47 families recognized is given. New combinations are made in the genera Agrestia, Cladina, Dimelaena, and…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Barney, Sheets
Comparative tests in Alaska of (a) a thickened NH4 phosphate liquid fire retardant (Phos-Check 202) and (b) two liquid concentrate retardants (Fire-Trol 930 and Fire-Trol 934) showed that (b) can be successfully dropped by tanker aircraft on the Alaskan type of forest fuel, but…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Wannamaker
Using age-structure determinations on both living and dead stems in censused plots, coupled with stem analysis techniques, an historical picture of mortality and above-ground tree stem growth was recreated for ten stands dominated by black spruce in northeastern Ontario, Canada…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunting, Lundberg
This field and microscope study explores the micromorphological changes occurring in humus profiles of the Canadian boreal forest which have been variously affected by factors of disturbance: fire, dehydration and overland flow after storms. It compares the materials and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of slash-burning on the nutrient status of two Sub-Boreal. Spruce zone ecosystems in the west central interior of British Columbia. The slash, forest floor and mineral soil (0—15 cm depth) in these ecosystems were sampled for…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Robbins
Major aspects of the circulation through the atmostpheric environment of a number of gaseous nitrogen pollutants have been estimated, including source magnitudes, residual atmospheric concentrations,and scavenging processes. The compounds considered include the major nitrogen…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tarrant
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS