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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi
From the text... 'Summary: Despite the occurrence of fire and the presence of large grazing herds of caribou in the subarctic, the major factor determining the open-canopy nature of the subarctic spruce-lichen woodland is climate. Thus, unlike other transitional open-canopy…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huggard, Arsenault
From the text...'Fire-frequency (FF) analysis is used to derive, from empirical data, parameters that describe the frequency of fires in a system; the time-since-fire distribution; the age-specific probability of fire; and other summary statistics such as the natural fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wisdom, Wales, Holthausen, Hargis, Saab, Hann, Rich, Lee, Rowland
From the text...Summary: 'Haibtats for the majority of early and late-seral dependent species of wildlife have declined strongly from historical to current periods across large areas of th Interior Columbia Basin (Wisdom et al. in press). Strongest declines were for species…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
Aerial photographs from 1935 and 1991 were used in an analysis of vegetation change in the Negrito Creek watershed of southwestern New Mexico. Vegetation maps interpreted from aerial photographs were digitized and analyzed in a Geographic Information System to derive a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Casagrandi, Rinaldi
We show in this article how the characteristics of fire recurrence in forests can be theoretically derived from simple information concerning forest morphology. The task is accomplished by means of a minimal model encapsulating a few assumptions on the interactions between…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Andrews
From the text...'The FARSITE Fire Area Simulator is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in the BEHAVE Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System (Andrews 1986) and in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Zollner, Bukenhofer, Hensley, Houf
From the text...'Obviously, there are many ways to categorize plants and animals that people are concerned about. For this chapter, the Terrestrial Team focused on the categories public land managers typically must address as part of their planning, habitat management, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Thompson, Richards, Harper
From the text...'This chapter provides information about the vegetation cover of the Assessment area. The types and areal extent of vegetation in the Highlands are of interest for many reasons. Vegetation cover largely determines the availability of habitat for terrestrial…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Imbernon
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson
Lightning is the primary cause of fire in the forested regions of the Pacific Northwest, especially when it occurs without significant precipitation at the surface. Using thunderstorm occurrence and precipitation observations for the period 1948–77, along with automated…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jackson, Adams, Jackson
In a simulation model, the relative advantage of negative versus positive allometry of defense, that is, early versus delayed defensive investment, depends on the forms of the relationships between body size and growth, body size and mortality deterrence, and defense size and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Klopatek, DeBano, Ffolliott
The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and microbial mediated processes. Since a key component of overall ecosystem sustainability occurs belowground,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rechel, Tissell, Riggan
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES