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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bradstock
The effects of variations in fire intensity, frequency, and seasonality on the dynamics of four dry sclerophyll species, Banksia ericifolia, Petrophile fucifolia, B. serrata, Isopogon anemonifolius, are being investigated. These species have canopy-retained seedbanks enclosed in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Strang
A study of 59 sites in the Central Yukon showed no strong correlation between plant community and time since burning, the post-fire seral communities being both site and fire-specific. Fire intervals were 33, 69, 57 and 62 years in the South Ogilvie, North Ogilvie, Eagle Plains…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Natural disturbances have been traditionally defined in terms of major catastrophic events originating in the physical environment and, hence, have been regarded as exogenous agents of vegetation change. Problems with this view are: (1) there is a gradient from minor to major…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis
From the text: 'With respect to traditional uses of fire, the Indians of northern Alberta exhibited a clear understanding of both what was happening as well as why things happened. They exhibited full understanding of systemic, relational effects of burning in their discussions…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelsall, Telfer, Wright
This review analyzes literature relevant to effects of fire on the Boreal Forest, and on its related wildlife resources, with particular reference to the Canadian North. The selected bibliography contains the more recent and historicallv important references and is not all-…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bratten
A theoretical probability model has been developed for analyzing program alternatives in fire management. It includes submodels or modules for predicting probabilities of fire behavior, fire occurrence, fire suppression, effects of fire on land resources, and financial effects…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue
Discusses problems associated with fire-cause data on USDA Forest Service wildfire reports, traces the historical development of wildfire-cause categories, and presents the pros and cons of retaining current wildfire-cause reporting systems or adopting new systems.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins
Two computer programs for testing alternative fire prescriptions are presented. Program RXBUILD creates a fire occurrence and a fire weather, danger, and manning class file for use by the second program. Program RXFIRES reads user fire selection criteria are tested against the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Battson, Cawker
This study involved an evaluation of the various measures of fire occurrence as recorded in lake sediments. A short core (90cm) was extracted from Mashagama Lake, Ontario. The basin was burned in 1948 and 1967, yielding two zones, one burned and one unburned in the sediment core…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noga, Tikhonov
Description not entered.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Excerpt: The material presented in this paper is drawn from one of the fire research studies at the Petawawa, Ontario, Forest Experiment Station; namely, an ecological study of fire in our boreal forest. The purpose of this work, in the official language of project statements,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finklin
A method is described for delineating fire climate zones, using a multiple regression relationship between a fire danger parameter and simple climatic averages. In this example, climatic averages were rainfall and daily max. temp. for the May-Aug. fire season. Fire danger was…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
The Weibull distribution is shown to fit well with empirical data of fire intervals for a population of sites. The distribution demonstrates that the recurrence of fire in the subarctic forests of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is predictable. The three parameters of the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS