Skip to main content

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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

Displaying 1 - 25 of 58

Understory vegetation changes following fire in the southern boreal forest [abstract]

De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence

Gan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning emissions: a review of models using remote-sensing data

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire return rates on traversability of lodgepole pine forests for mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and the use of patch metrics to estimate traversability

Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is an unprecedented dothistroma needle blight epidemic related to climate change?

Woods, Coates, Hamann
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine forest age class dynamics and susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack

Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of conifer and broad-leaved trees and shrubs to wildfire and clearcut logging in the boreal forests of central labrador

Simon, Schwab
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The adaptive capacity of forest management to changing fire regimes in the boreal forest of Quebec

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands, U.S.A

Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation of historical and current fire regimes in central Saskatchewan for annual allowable cut determination

Li, Barclay, Lui, Campbell, Carlson
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of mammals to forest fire and timber harvest in the North American boreal forest

Fisher, Wilkinson
1. This paper reviews and compares the effects of forest fire and timber harvest on mammalian abundance and diversity, throughout successional time in the boreal forest of North America. 2. Temporal trends in mammal abundance and diversity are generally similar for both…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire statistics and the timber supply

Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The boreal forest references including Alaska, interior and northern Canada and Vancouver Island

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

General North America references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and the forest mosaic in the boreal forest of North Central Alberta [abstract]

Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Assessing fire suppression impacts on ecosystems with long return interval, high intensity fires [abstract]

Saveland
The impact of fire suppression on ecosystems with long fire return intervals has been considered negligible. It is argued that, since fire suppresssion has been effective for only the last 30 to 50 years, fire suppresssion could not possibly have had much of an impact where the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fires in Mexico

Maldonado
The paper represents factors that cause wildland fires and their diverse impacts on Mexico. It also outlines how the Mexican government establishes and operates prevention and suppression programs by taking advantage of participation by all sectors in our society trying to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impact of feral water buffalo and fire on growth and survival of mature savanna trees: an experimental field study in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia

Werner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential alteration by climate change of the forest-fire regime in the Boreal forest of central Yukon Territory

McCoy, Burn
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Variation in postfire organic layer thickness in a black spruce forest complex in interior Alaska and its effects on soil temperature and moisture

Kasischke, Johnstone
This study investigated the relationship between climate and landscape characteristics and surface fuel consumption as well as the effects of variations in postfire organic layer depth on soil temperature and moisture in a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest complex…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The creation of alternative stable states in the southern boreal forest, Quebec, Canada

Jasinski, Payette
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term oscillations in grassland driven by fire [abstract]

MacDougall, Turkington
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS