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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kane
The infiltration rate of snowmelt water into seasonally frozen soils is controlled in part by the amount of ice in the soil pores. The objective of this study was to measure the redistribution of moisture that occurs over the winter season for Fairbanks silt loam and to…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
It happens to most firefighters sooner or later if they have been on the job long enough. Everything along the fireline seems fairly well controlled. But then, unexpectedly, the wind shifts and becomes erratic. Wind speed picks up dramatically for 5 to 15 minutes and then…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gasaway, Dubois, Brink
Dispersal of 1- to 3-year-old moose from a low density, but rapidly growing, moose population was investigated. Radio-collars were placed on 17 offspring of previously radio-collared adult cows. Comparison of home ranges of independent off spring and their respective dams…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garfinkel, Brubaker
Statistical comparisons between tree-ring width sequences and climatic records provide a means of identifying climatic limitations on tree growth and allow the reconstruction of past climates. This information is especially important in the North American sub-Arctic where…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dipert, Warren
A description is given of the FIRE MOUSE TRAP (FMT - Flying Infrared Enhanced Manoeuvrable Operational User Simple Electronic Tactical Reconnaissance and Patrol) system for mapping forest fires, which was first used experimentally in Alaska in 1985. Forward looking infrared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Kuropat
Plant palatability frequently moderates vertebrate herbivore forage selection patterns. There is, however, considerable debate as to which plant chemical characteristics control palatability. On the one hand, forage proximal nutritional quality is believed to be of primary…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Parkinson
Respiration rates and mass losses of decomposing pine (Pinus contorta Loud. X P. banksiana Lamb.) and aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) leaf litter were compared in laboratory microcosms for a range of temperature and moisture levels. For both litter types, a pair of high-…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boring, Swank, Waide, Henderson
The relative importance of nitrogen inputs from atmospheric depositions and biological fixation is reviewed in a number of diverse, non-agricultural terrestrial ecosystems. Rates of both symbiotic and nonsymbiotic fixation appear to be greater during early succession stages of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Glossop, Bell, Shea
Changes are reported in levels of total nitrogen and total phosphorus in leaves and connecting branches following an experimental, high intensity, autumn burn. Following canopy temperatures reaching at least 50 C, reduced levels of nitrogen and phosphorus were found in leaves…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mechanical and chemical methods for improving pangola grass areas (Digitaria decumbens Sten) in Cuba
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Merrill, Mayland, Peek
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacLean, Wein
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maillette
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klinka, Carter
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sydes, Miller
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Fire links the biosphere and the atmosphere. The linkage is, as yet, poorly quantified. Evidence suggests that a few percent of total C fixed by photosynthesis is oxidized by burning. Biomass burning seems to be globally significant in terms of associated: • Releases of trace…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Reinhardt
We used data on 2356 trees from 43 prescribed fires in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington states to model postfire tree mortality. Data were combined for seven species of conifers to develop binary logistic regression models for predicting the probability of mortality.…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seiler, Crutzen
In order to estimate the production of charcoal and the atmospheric emissions of trace gases volatilized by burning we have estimated the global amounts of biomass which are affected by fires. We have roughly calculated annual gross burning rates ranging between about 5 Pg and 9…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS