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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McAlpine, Eiber
Weather data from Upsala and Atikokan, Ontario, were used to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System values and to calculate the soil moisture for two soil types using the Thornthwaite water balance. The Duff Moisture Code and the Drought Code were found to give…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lorimer
A number of nondestructive techniques for analyzing the timing, frequency, and magnitude of natural disturbances in forest stands are discussed in this paper. Intensive age determination of trees is desirable for reconstructing forest disturbance history, but age distrubution…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell, Bunting, Neuenschwander
Comprehensive sampling of curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) on 41 sites in five States allowed an assessment of postfire population dynamics, differences in regeneration patterns, and critical events in stand regeneration. Historical accounts of fire, fire…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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 biomasss combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonnicksen, Stone
National park resource management planning requires ecological information describing the objectives to be achieved. This information must be quantitative and unambiguous. Since most acts creating United States national parks, beginning with the Yellowstone National Park Act of…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ritchie
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp, Gilliam
Photosynthetic pigments and several structural characteristics were measured in leaves of Andropogon gerardii from tallgrass prairie populations in an unburned, low-irradiance site and a burned, high-irradiance site to determine if these species displayed sun/shade differences…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farjon, Bogaers
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
A keynote speaker has a unique advantage. Somewhat like a historian, he can look backward in time and also discuss the present. Unlike the historian, he may also point to the future. A keynote speaker also can ramble more or less all over the countryside. He doesn't have to have…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of 11 papers in which authorities discuss the impacts of fire on wildlife habitat and wildlife populations. Presentations cover bobwhite quail, nongame birds, white-tailed deer, bighorn and Stone's sheep; and the response to burning of curlleaf cercocarpus, aspen,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLean, Wikeem
Bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum Pursh) Scribn. & Smith) response to various clipping regimes which incorporated different times, frequencies, and intensities of defoliation was examined in southern British Columbia. The experiment was repeated for 3 consecutive…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bacon, Dell
This publication entitled National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire, is part of the National Forest Landscape Management series, issued in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1980 by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This chapter's purpose is to…
Year: 1985
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
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
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
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
Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Post
Tree mortality in partially burned areas of the fire perimeter was primarily due to woodborer and bark beetle attacks. In addition, adjacent unburned, healthy trees can be invaded within 1 to 2 years by root-inhabiting fungi that were transmitted by root grafts from infected to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Foote
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Foote
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES