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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moir
Southwestern canyon woodlands, for purposes of this paper, are vegetation types along canyon bottoms for mostly third and fourth order drainages whose streams may be permanent or intermittent. These include habitat types within blue spruce, white fir, ponderosa pine, narrowleaf…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Steele
Repeated observations of permanent plots and transects are used to evaluate adaptive responses of individual species and communities of perennial plants following fires that occurred in 1974. Positive adaptations are common, but are weakly developed. Recovery is taking place,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gilbert, Nias
A teleprinter-type terminal, located in the six Regional offices of the Ministry of Forests, accesses a central computer to allow daily fire weather data to be stored and analyze within a time-frame suitable for making fire management decisions. The data is organized in a manner…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
This study makes important contributions 10 our understanding of the life history and population dynamics or a little-known yet widespread member of the taiga community. A live trapping grid plus supplemental snaptrapping were used for 3 years. Less intensive efforts covered 3…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Direct solar radiation to the bark surface of white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, is the primary environmental factor influencing the developmental rate of spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), in Alaska. A phloem threshold temperature of 16.5 degree C is…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Trudell
Habitat preference by caribou (Rangifer tarandus grantii Allen.) and forage selection and consumption by tame reindeer (R. t. tarandus L.) were studied near Atkasook, Alaska, for 3 yr. Small groups of caribou were present in both winter and summer. Winter habitat use was…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Eighty black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) trees from four pulpwood stands in north central Ontario were sampled to determine crown fuel weights. Crown fuel components, both living and dead, were separated into size classes precise enough for use in forest fire behavior…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
(1) The population dynamics of eight reindeer herds in Norway, including the high arctic, were studied in relation to food abundance and population density. (2) Density-dependent effects were manifested through winter food…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shaw, Eglitis, Laurent, Hennon
Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) trees have been dying of an unknown cause in large numbers at several locations in southeastern Alaska for more than 75 yr. At least 9,700 ha of cedar forest have been affected. Diseased stands often have 50% or more of their total…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rolley, Keith
Description not entered.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1,000,000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Gagnon
Reconstructions of climate in the Holocene rely heavily on palaeoclimatic indicators such as altitudinal and latitudinal treeline movements inferred from direct (macrofossil) or indirect (pollen) evidence of sites distant from modern treelines. It is suggested here that long-…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oosenbrug, Theberge
The altitudinal movements, preferred topography and plant communities of 150 to 200 woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were recorded for two summers. Nine subalpine or alpine tundra communities constituting their major summer range were quantitatively described.…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore
An analysis of samples collected in 1976 from 2 sites in mature open spruce/lichen woodland in Quebec, unburned for 105 and 138 yr, and dominated by Picea glauca, P. mariana, Ledum groenlandicum and Betula glandulosa; and from 3 regenerating sites, burned 1, 5 and 45 yr…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Contains proposal for study of postfire lichen recovery on taiga ranges.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zackrisson
The past and present fire regimes are described, and the significance for the flora of this region is discussed. Methods used to reconstruct forest fire history are presented. The dating problems with false and absent rings in Scots pine, Norway spruce and two birch species…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
The shortest answer to the title question is that a fire's effect is independent of its mode of origin. So, rather than recreating the original fire regime per se, it might be more feasible to aim for the vegetation a natural fire regime would create. How to arrange the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
White
Several abstracts on fire ecology, plant response and management in Alaska by following authors:Knapp, G. Dixon, J.S.Foote, J. and Viereck, L.A.Alden, J. and Zasada, J.Viereck, L.A. and Foote, M. J.Sampson, G. R. Post, K.E. and Werner, R.A.Lehnhausen, W. and Murphy, E.Densmmore…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Malotte, Erskine
Alaska land managers and wildfire protection organizations have begun interagency fire planning for over 220 million fire-prone acres (=81 million ha). A 14-step process has been developed to guide planning teams. Four plans have been completed and nine are presently being…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, Dieterich
The purpose of the workshop was to exchange information on sampling procedures, research methodologies, preparation and interpretation of specimen material, terminology, and the application and significance of findings, emphasizing the relationship of dendrochronology procedures…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roby
Description not entered.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Reindeer vegetation-type selection, activity, and food habits were studied from 1976 to 1978. Results from aerial surveys and on-ground observations showed a preference for Tussock-Shrub Tundra in spring, Low-Medium Willows in early summer, and Saltgrass Meadows in mid-summer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payette
The long term fire history at the treeline in Northern Quebec can be evaluated by ecological surveys of the major ecosystems. Available data suggest that fires are presently climate-controlled, and therefore may be used as paleoclimatic indicators. During a cold climatic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS