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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Shafizadeh, Sekiguchi
In view of the significance of the properties and reactions of chars during the process of smoldering combustion, a series of cellulosic chars was prepared at temperatures ranging from 340 to 6000C and their pyrolysis and combustion properties were studied by thermal analysis.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Gimingham, Rahman
(1) Measurements were made of water infiltration, water retention and porosity of soils of burned and unburned plots of heathland. (2) On the burned plot the rate of infiltration was decreased by up to 74% compared to the unburned plot. (3) Moisture retention in the top soil of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pimm
Early studies suggested that simple ecosystems were less than complex ones, but later studies came to the opposite conclusion. Confusion arose because of the many different meanings of 'complexity' and 'stability'. Most of the possible questions about the relationship between…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edwards
In May 1990, a test of two levels of site preparation were implemented on a lower Piedmont site. The two silvicultural treatments were: 1 ) a spotgun application of the herbicide Velpar L and 2) brown and burn procedure. Seven 100 ft. x 2 ft. transects were located within each…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rico-Gray, Garcia-Franco
We studied vegetation structure and soil seed bank composition in different successional stages of secondary lowland tropical deciduous forest in Yucatan, Mexico. The Series of study sites includes: slashed (S), slashed-and-burned (SB), and regenerating for 1, 6, 10, 15, 30, 40…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, George, Trethewey
This paper presents the results of a study of handcrew fireline production rates. The methods are discussed. Tables and figures show the data collected and their analysis in a variety of stratifications. The basic data from the study are also presented. Because of the limited…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmalzer, Hinkle
We sampled previously established permanent line intercept transects (15 m length) of oak-saw palmetto scrub 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months after a 1986 fire. We recorded cover by taxon in the 0-0.5 m and > 0.5 m height layers. Transects were located in two stands that…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holliday
Following an intense forest fire, carabid beetles were sampled by pitfall trapping in a burned site that had been dominated before the fire by aspen, Populus tremuloides, in a second burned site that had been dominated by conifers (Picea spp.), and in matching unburned sites. In…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Bratton, Hadidian
To assess the impact of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on endangered and threatened flora, we reviewed pertinent literature and conducted a telephone survey of professional botanists, endangered species scientists, natural area managers, and U.S. National Park…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podolsky
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton
Methods are described for sampling and estimating mortality rates using strips of large-scale color aerial photography as the primary sampling unit. The methods have been designed to be used in situations where steep terrain and the lack of a radar altimeter make it very…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schonewald-Cox, Buechner, Sauvajot, Wilcox
Protecting biodiversity on public lands is difficult, requiring the management of a complex array of factors. This is especially true when the ecosystems in question are affected by, or extend onto, lands outside the boundries of the protected area. In this article we review…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Densmore
The long-term effects of planted grass on the rate and pattern of succession were evaluated on a construction-disturbed alluvial fan tundra site in the central Brooks Range of Alaska. Plots were evaluated 4 and 11 yr after the site was scarified and partially fertilized and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradstock, Bedward
Simulations were used to investigate the effect of season of fire on seedling emergence in Banksia ericifolia and B. serrata. The simulations were based on models of soil-surface moisture in response to rainfall, seedling emergence response to soil moisture and post-fire seed…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
The northernmost jack pine populations in northern Quebec are located at the boreal forest - forest tundra boundary, along the Grande riviere de la Baleine, where they colonize the sandy terraces affected by recurrent fires. The reent fire history in the study area, are deduced…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harris
Fuel values were determined for stems and branches in three hardwood species: white oak, yellow-poplar, and sweetgum. A significant difference was found between the higher heating value of the stemwood and branchwood of white oak. Otherwise, no difference in higher heating value…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soberon
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Fuller (1991) concluded that pellet group counts do not index white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus ) numbers based on lack of correlation between 5 years of pellet counts and corresponding aerial surveys; however, this conclusion was drawn without knowing the tree deer…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller
White (1992) elucidates important limitations using correlation analyses to test population indices. However, in reevaluating Fuller's (1991) white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) aerial survey and pellet count data, White (1992), through exhaustive computer simulation,…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oomes
The relation between the dry matter production and species density of 27 grasslands with different fertilization histories in the Netherlands was studied.© IVAS; Opulus Press Uppsala.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Laven, Fiedler
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houle
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS