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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cartledge
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pippin, Nichols
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foxx
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to 60% with fire. When prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant species and management of this…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stuever, Crawford, Molles, White, Muldavin
The "bosque” of the Middle Rio Grande is one of the last extensive cottonwood gallery forests in the American Southwest, and yet the future role of cottonwood in these stands is increasingly threatened. Human intervention has progressively changed stand structure, spatial…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (10 000 years BP), but…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera, Ter-Mikaelian, Martell, Li
With the exponential model, Van Wagner (1978) gave us valuable insight in understanding stand age and forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. He showed that, under certain conditions, the probability distribution of the age of a stand subject to periodic renewal by…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reed
A method of estimating historical forest-fire frequencies based on time-since-last-fire observations at a simple random sample of points in an area of undisturbed forest is presented. The historical-fire hazard rate function is assumed to be piecewise constant (constant within…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Spatial and temporal variations in fire frequency in the boreal forest of Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) were assessed using forest stand age, fire scar and historical data. I test the hypotheses that (1) fire frequency is higher in jack pine forests and aspen forests than in…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaefer, Larson
Despite international recognition that alvar habitats are important reservoirs of biodiversity, they remain little studied in North America. In this paper, the results are reported on an investigation of alvars in the central portion of their known distribution on this continent…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Li
To evaluate the respective contributions of habitat, fire regime and colonization-extinction procsses to the distribution of northern Pinus species, we investigated the distribution of P. banksiana (jack pine), P. resinosa (red pine) and P. strobus (white pine) on 117 islands of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tracy, Samuel
We studied responses of above ground production, grazing by elk and the availability of eight elements (Ca, Fe, K, Mg, N, Na, P, Zn) in a Yellowstone National Park sagebrush grassland following a fire in 1992. We compared four areas of differing fire history: (1) an area burned…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka
A computerized fire weather model coupled with a synoptic model is a powerful means of describing the weather part of the fire environment.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has shaped the conterminous United States for millennia. During the presettlement era between 4.5 and 11 percent of the landscape burned annually. Today approximately 0.8 percent burns annually. Fire emission estimates from presettlement wildland fire and present…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lissoway
The rejuvenating effects of natural fires prior to 1900 in Southwestern forest communities have been replaced by recent, unprecedented crownfires. These wildfires have given rise to planned expansion of management fire as a tool for ecosystem restoration, while protecting…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galipeau, Kneeshaw, Bergeron
The goal of this study was to describe white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) recolonization in a forest destroyed in 1923 by an intense fire. Regeneration was evaluated considering both ecological site factors and distance to a seed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS