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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The importance of fire-atmosphere coupling and boundary-layer turbulence to wildfire spread

Sun, Krueger, Jenkins, Zulauf, Charney
The major source of uncertainty in wildfire behavior prediction is the transient behavior of wildfire due to changes in flow in the fire's environment. The changes in flow are dominated by two factors. The first is the interaction or 'coupling' between the fire and the fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paludification dynamics in the boreal forest of the James Bay Lowlands: effect of time since fire and topography

Simard, Bernier, Bergeron, Paré, Guérine
In many northern forest ecosystems, soil organic matter accumulation can lead to paludification and forest productivity losses. Paludification rate is primarily influenced by topography and time elapsed since fire, two factors whose influence is often confounded and whose…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels

Schwilk, Keeley, Knapp, McIver, Bailey, Fettig, Fiedler, Harrod, Moghaddas, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Youngblood
Changes in vegetation and fuels were evaluated from measurements taken before and after fuel reduction treatments (prescribed fire, mechanical treatments, and the combination of the two) at 12 Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) sites located in forests with a surface fire regime…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: ecological consequences of fuel reduction methods in seasonally dry forests

McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
From the text ... 'The primary goal of the FFS study was to measure and compare the effectiveness and ecological consequences of commonly used fuel reduction treatments. Forest managers throughout the United States have asked for side-by-side comparisons of treatments to better…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Public response to wildfire: is the Australian ''stay and defend or leave early'' approach an option for wildfire management in the United States?

McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

Higuera, Brubaker, Anderson, Hu, Brown
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial-scale climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and existing paleoclimate interpretations. New techniques were introduced to identify charcoal peaks semi-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Deadwood abundance in Labrador high-boreal black spruce forests

Hagemann, Moroni, Makeschin
Deadwood (woody debris (WD), standing dead trees (snags), stumps, and buried deadwood) abundance was estimated in Labrador humid high-boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests regrown following natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Aboveground deadwood (DW)…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Livestock as ecosystem engineers for grassland bird habitat in the western Great Plains of North America

Derner, Lauenroth, Stapp, Augustine
Domestic livestock have the potential to function as ecosystem engineers in semiarid rangelands, but prevailing management practices largely emphasize livestock production and uniform use of vegetation. As a result, variation in vegetation structure might not occur at…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed Fire

Tu, Hurd, Randall
From the text ... 'TNC and other agencies and ogganizations that manage land for biodiversity often use prescribed burns to promote desired vegetation and species. Fire is sometimes necessary to prompt the germination of some plants, including a number of rare and endangered…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological approaches to reduce predation on ground-nesting gamebirds and their nests

Jimenez, Conover
In human-modified environments, high predation rates on ground-nesting birds and their eggs can be a serious problem. We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of ecological aproaches to improve recruitment of ground-nesting birds. Ecological approaches reduce…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire residuals as habitat reserves for epigaeic beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Staphylinidae)

Gandhi, Spence, Langor, Morgantini
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A domain-specific language for models of landscape dynamics

Fall, Fall
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Breeding songbird abundance related to secondary succession in the subarctic forests of western Labrador

Schwab, Simon, Carroll
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Helminth community structure and pattern in Merriam's kangaroo rats, Dipodomys merriami Mearns, from the Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico, USA

Fedynich, Monasmith, Demarais
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lichen chronosequences (postfire and postharvest) in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests of northern interior British Columbia

Coxson, Marsh
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Comparison of the understory vegetation in boreal forest types of southwest Quebec

Legare, Bergeron, Leduc, Paré
Variation in canopy composition can influence ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling and light transmittance, even when environmental soil conditions are similar. To determine whether forest cover type influences species composition of the understory vegetation (herbs and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Homothallism in the postfire ascomycete Rhizina undulata

Vasiliauskas, Stenlid
The mating system of the postfire ascomycete Rhizina undulata was investigated. Five fruit-bodies of the fungus were collected from three different sites in western Lithuania. Pure cultures were obtained both from the fruit-bodies and from single ascospores. Mycelia were paired…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fires and environmental haze in Southeast Asia: using the 'stakeholder' approach to assign costs and responsibilities

Quah, Johnston
The 'seasonal haze' problem is one which afflicts large parts of Southeast Asia in years of drought. The major cause is forest, bush and field fires in the states of Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia, and to a lesser extent in Sabah, Sarawak, and other parts of Malaysia.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Peatland restoration in southern Quebec (Canada): a paleoecological perspective

Lavoie, Zimmermann, Pellerin
We used macrofossil analyses to reconstruct the long-term development of plant assemblages and the history of fire events in a bog in southern Quebec which was partly disturbed by peat mining activities and recently restored. Our main objectives were to (i) determine to what…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On fire and rain (or predicting the effects of change)

Beven
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dispersal strategies, spatial heterogeneity and colonization success in fire-managed grasslands

Laterra, Solbrig
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Toward restoration and recovery: an assessment of the 2000 fire season in the Northern & Intermountain regions

From the Introduction ... 'To help address the many challenges created by the 2000 fire season, leadership in the Northern (Region One) and Intermountain (Region Four) Regions combined their efforts through a post-fire strategy. This strategy seeks to promote open communication…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of strenuous live-fire fire fighting drills on hematological, blood chemistry and psychological measures

Smith, Petruzzello, Chludzinski, Reed, Woods
This study describes the effects of strenuous live-fire fire fighting drills and 90 min of recovery on hematological and psychological variables. Eleven fire fighters performed three trials of fire fighting tasks in a training structure that contained live fires. Plasma volume…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Environmental management in resource-rich Alberta, Canada: first world jurisdiction, third world analogue?

Timoney, Lee
Economic growth is frequently touted as a cure for environmental ills, particularly for those in Third World countries. Here we examine that paradigm in a case study of Alberta, Canada, a wealthy, resource-rich province within a wealthy nation. Through provincial-scale datasets…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Phytogeography of rare plant species endemic to the southeastern United States

Estill, Cruzan
A database of the county distribution of rare vascular plant species endemic to the southeastern United States was compiled in order to review geographic trends. A total of 482 species representing 246 genera in 95 families were identified as rare southeastern endemics. The…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS