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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Minore
Rhizome occurrence and root structure of Vaccinium membranaceum were investigated by hydraulic excavation. Numerous, robust rhizomes were present. Taproots were not observed. V. membranaceum rhizomes sprouted vigorously after a light surface fire killed the shoots. They may be…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai
Examination of 30 stands in sub-arctic woodlands showed that most were even-aged, having been established after fires. Most fires killed all trees in the stand, but in some instances some trees survived, indicating light fires. The rare occurrence of uneven-aged stands shows…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zackrisson, Nilsson, Wardle
Wildfire is a major disturbance factor in boreal forests where it is important in rejuvenating soil properties and encouraging tree regeneration and growth. However, the mechanisms behind these effects are poorly understood and little is known as to the ecological effects of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
Changes in foliar chemistry resulting from changes in forest-floor and mineral-soil moisture availability, forest-floor microbial energy supply, and nitrogen availability were investigated across the successional sequences in both upland and floodplain landscape positions. Three…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Viereck
Alaskan Salicaceae can be subdivided into two groups on the basis of timing of seed dispersal. The early-seeding species include members of the genus Populus and the majority of Salix species. Late-seeding species include seven members of the genus Salix. On tests of five…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Deteriorating forest health is causing unprecedented damage to the boreal forests of Alaska. Forest health is a complex issue that must be adressed within the context of ecosystem management and the goal of managing ecosystems for long-term productivity and maintaining…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Dyrness
State factor controls of soil and forest development were examined in floodplain primary and upland secondary successional ecosystems along the Tanana River in interior Alaska. Topography is the principal difference in state factor control of structure and function of these…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Noonan
During a 4-year period the biomass and mass of selected chemical elements were measured in litter fall from young, intermediate, and mature age classes of quaking aspen and paper birch in interior Alaska. Average annual deposition of biomass and mass of Mg, Fe, and Mn were…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Starfield, Chapin
One of the greatest challenges in global-change research is to predict the future distribution of vegetation. Most models of vegetation change predict either the response of a patch of present vegetation to climatic change or the future equilibrium distribution of vegetation…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz and Sitka spruce forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification and abductive inference to develop decision models for classifying spruce beetle hazard. Model development and validation data sets contained 286 and 88…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Persson
Fire blight was for the first time observed in a pear orchard in southern Sweden in 1986. Since 1989 the disease has spread along the south and west coast with the most frequent number of new outbreaks in 1990. Besides pear, hawthorn, apple, Sorbus aria and Cotoneaster…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik, Magoun
During 1991-94 we tested whether martens (Martens americana) selectively used postfire seres in the Alaskan taiga and whether selection could be explained by differences in marten hunting behavior, habitat, prey abundance, or demography. Forest seral stages included early-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nash, Johnson
The coupling of synoptic scale weather conditions with local scale weather and fuel conditions was examined for 2551 fires and 1,537,624 lightning strikes for the May-August fire seasons in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The probability of lightning fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earle, Brubaker, Anderson
The charcoal content of surface and late-Quaternary lake sediments in boreal forests of northcentral Alaska was investigated using an image-analysis procedure that tallied and measured the area of charcoal particles in size classes. Modern sediments were from mud-water…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
Canada's current method of fire danger assessment is known as the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which took shape in the late 1960s when the Candian Forest Service (CFS) envisioned a modular design for a national fire danger rating system. The CFFDRS…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Meeker
The opportunity exists in most forest ecosystems of North America to use prescribed fire to manipulate forest insect pests and associated organisms, including bark beetles. The interactions among fire, forests, and insects are many, complex, and poorly understood.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharbaugh
From section titled 'Why are we here?': 'The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for Copper River Basin natural resource managers and researchers, as well as the public, to learn more about the ecology of spruce beetles and the forests they inhabit. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
Trend of the Nelchina caribou range was determined from vegetation examinations of 36 ten and fifteen year old exclosures. Condition of climax lichen stands, primarily Cladonia alpestris, began to degenerate with two to three years of use and has declined substantially in the…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Luthin, Taylor
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Inglis
Five 7.3m x 7.3m exclosures were constructed on winter range following grazing. All feeding craters within the sites were permanently marked. The exclosures were later examined, disassembled and the crater outlines super-imposed on vegetation maps. The procedure was repeated on…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Weber, Sylvester
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES