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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Giglio, Kendall
The demand for improved information on regional and global fire activity in the context of land use/land cover change, ecosystem disturbance, climate modeling, and natural hazards has increased efforts in recent years to improve earth-observing satellite sensors and associated…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camera captures video and temperature as a high-intensity crown fire rolls through. From the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in the Northwest Territories.
Year: 2000
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
COFECHA is a computer program that assesses the quality of crossdating and measurement accuracy of tree-ring series. Written by Richard L. Holmes in 1982, the program has evolved into one of the most important and widely used in dendrochronology. It is important to note that…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Dinerstein, Wikramanayake, Burgess, Powell, Underwood, D'amico, Itoua, Strand, Morrison, Loucks, Allnutt, Ricketts, Kura, Lamoreux, Wettengel, Hedao, Kassem
The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodiversity-a pragmatic approach, given the highly uneven…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened by fire suppression, and the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
The USDA Forest Service stores fire occurrence data in a relational data base for planning, analysis, and other purposes. Weather observations are stored in the same data base for all five federal land management agencies and some state wildland agencies. Ready access to fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watchman, Groom, Perrine
'A review of 43 habitat conservation plans reveals numerous ways to reduce uncertainty for landowners and imperiled species alike.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three to five days is highly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Best
From the text ... 'Conservation easements are a voluntary, incentive-based approach to recognizing the public benefits provided by private forests. The land stays in private ownership and in productive use, while key 'conservation values' such as open space, fish and wildlife…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis. It is stated in the Federal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peltzer, Bast, Wilson, Gerry
We determined the abundance and diversity of vascular plants in seven types of disturbance in mixed-wood boreal forest. Disturbance treatments included wildfire, natural regeneration after harvest and several methods of silvicultural site preparation. Relative to undisturbed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenner, Kurz, Beukema
We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a spatially explicit vegetation succession model with the ability to apply user-defined management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landres, Brunson, Merigliano, Sydoriak, Morton
This paper summarizes a dialogue session that focused on two concepts that strongly influence nearly all wilderness management: wildness and naturalness. The origin and value of these concepts are discussed, as well as the dilemma and irony that arises when wilderness managers…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tu, Hurd, Randall
From the text ... 'TNC and other agencies and ogganizations that manage land for biodiversity often use prescribed burns to promote desired vegetation and species. Fire is sometimes necessary to prompt the germination of some plants, including a number of rare and endangered…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jimenez, Conover
In human-modified environments, high predation rates on ground-nesting birds and their eggs can be a serious problem. We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of ecological aproaches to improve recruitment of ground-nesting birds. Ecological approaches reduce…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gandhi, Spence, Langor, Morgantini
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fall, Fall
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwab, Simon, Carroll
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boudreault, Gauthier, Bergeron
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fedynich, Monasmith, Demarais
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hallett, Walker
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coxson, Marsh
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Legare, Bergeron, Leduc, Paré
Variation in canopy composition can influence ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling and light transmittance, even when environmental soil conditions are similar. To determine whether forest cover type influences species composition of the understory vegetation (herbs and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS