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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kelsall
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002 (https://www.frames.gov/catalog/18093)] Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Franzmann, Schwartz, Johnson
Summary: During spring 1982 and 1983, mortality mode expandable radio collars were placed on 37 and 42 moose (Alces alces) calves, respectively. Three calves were abandoned by their cows within 24 hours of capture in 1982; 1 was abandoned in 1983; and 1 transmitter ceased…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby, Curtis
Spruce bettle remains at epidemic levels in area of the Kenai Peninsula and areas of activity were noted in the Copper River Valley. Large aspen tortix was common throughout interior Alaska. Hemlock sawfly declined sharply in southeast Alaska. Black-headed budworm populations…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This publication is the fourth edition of tables for calculating the six standard components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The first three components are fuel moisture codes that follow daily changes in the moisture contents of three classes of forest fuel;…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
In this report, we have presented spread index and buildup index frequency information for selected stations in Alaska. Also, methods to extract and utilize the information were discussed. In doing this, we have provided another tool for the fire planners in Alaska. The tool…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Computer programs that facilitate obtaining climatological summaries of information stored in the National Fire Weather Data Library are described. Computer programs for enhancing reliability of data-deficient weather records are also described. Instructions for executing the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBeath
Spruce bud rust (caused by Chrysomyxa woroninii ) attacked both the leaf (needle) buds and ovulate strobili of Picea glauca and P. mariana. The infected needle buds produced extremely stunted shoots with bright yellow-colored needles. Infected cones became most conspicuos when…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaux, Gardner, Mills
Methods for assessing the impact of fire on forest recreation were studied in a literature search and an experiment. Contingent market valuation appeared the most promising. This direct, economic approach uses personal interviews and sets up a hypothetical market transaction in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meehan, Merrell, Hanley
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hulten
This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras—the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region—is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skoog
Description not entered.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Burn severity directly impacts the quantity and quality of on-site plant revegetating vectors (seeds, spores, vegetative shoots and roots, etc.) that will survive the fire and be available for revegetation. Burn severity indirectly impacts the success of the invading or off-site…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces) are the largest surviving land mammals in the circumpolar boreal forests and the largest living representatives of the deer family (Cervidae). The weights of adult bulls in Alberta averaged 477 kg in early winter when adult females averaged 402 kg (Canadian…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Spruce bark beetle activity was monitored over 14 years on a transect through a mixed white spruce stand on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Data confirmed bark beetle preference for attacking large-diameter, slow-growing spruce. Increased bark beetle activity was noted on north…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henshaw
The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) of Arctic Alaska are gregarious, frequently mobile and occupy environment too harsh to support more than a limited spectrum of specialized animals. Although most previous work on caribou has been conducted during the short summer phase of their…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Concentrations of P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn and Zn in black spruce foliage were examined in relation to forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska. Decline in levels of P and K in the foliage corresponds with rapid decline in forest productivity. Levels of P and, to a lesser…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), introduced to St. Matthews Island in 1944, increased from 29 animals at that time to 6,000 in the summer of 1963, and underwent a crash die-off the following winter to less than 50 animals. In 1957, the body weight of the reindeer was found to…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fetcher, Beatty, Mullinax, Winkler
Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dixon, Shipley, Briggs
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boertje
Food habits of the Denali (formerly McKinley) herd of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) were studied during 1978-80 in Denali National Park, Alaska, with emphasis on diets of adult females. Data from fecal analyses, field observations, and forage digestibilities…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud, Jakimchuk, Carruthers
The demography, movement and behaviour patterns of eight caribou populations (Kaminuriak, Nelchina, Central Arctic, Fortymile, Porcupine, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Snowhetta) exposed to industrial activities or transportation corridors are reviewed. Behaviour patterns…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomass combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to over…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker
The calculation of heat release rate by oxygen consumption is based on the assumption that all materials release approximately the same amount of heat per unit mass of oxygen consumed. This technique is now being employed to determine the heat release rate of materials in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gordon
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS