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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere

Henderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and survival traits of plants

Trabaud
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Selected parameters of Pinus banksiana Lamb. regeneration in Eastern Ontario

Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Parasites, lightning, and the vegetation mosaic in wilderness landscapes

Knight
From the Introduction ... 'The vegetation mosaic in any landscape is a function of environmental variation and historic disturbances, whether caused by humans or other factors. Many studies have focused on species composition in relation to environmental gradients, and secondary…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Present-day vegetation in the northern Rocky Mountains

Habeck
The present-day northern Rocky Mountain vegetation is the product of a long history of geologic and climatic events that have interacted with the species populations composing the regional flora. General concepts relating to the organization, classification, and dynamic nature…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The appearance and disappearance of major vegetational assemblages: Long-term vegetational dynamics in eastern North America

Webb
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation responses to past climatic variation

Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the climatic changes that drive them,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The influence of continental ice, atmospheric CO2, and land albedo on the climate of the last glacial maximum

Broccoli, Manabe
The contributions of expanded continental ice, reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide, and changes in land albedo to the maintenance of the climate of the last glacial maximum (LGM) are examined. A series of experiments is performed using an atmosphere-mixed layer ocean model in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Recreation and fire management: public concerns, attitudes, and perceptions

Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Patterns of vegetation recovery after tundra fires in northwestern Alaska, USA

Racine, Johnson, Viereck
Studies of tundra fires between 1977-1983 in three areas of northwestern Alaska (Seward Peninsula [65°35'N], Noatak River [68°00'N], and Kokolik River [69°30'N]) representing a latitudinal gradient of 460 km. Postfire vegetation and permafrost recovery rates were documented in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Interaction of temperature, moisture, and soil chemistry in controlling nutrient cycling and ecosystem development in the taiga of Alaska

Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Climatic characteristics of the taiga in interior Alaska

Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Responses of tree populations to climatic change

Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these processes come from 1) observations…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Absorption properties and graphitic carbon emission factors of forest fire aerosols

Patterson, McMahon, Ward
Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS