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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrews
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christensen
[From introduction] What are the proper fire regimes for our diverse wilderness ecosystems? How and why have the frequency and behavior of fire changed through time? How have human activities such as a century of fire exclusion, landscape fragmentation, and alteration of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Soden, Freemuth
Over the course of the last two decades there has been a recurring theme among proponents of the National Park Service mission that politics has undermined the day-to-day goals of the Service. With the increased politization of the Park Service, two recent proposals have called…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lunney, Eby, O'Connell
The effects of logging on three species of common skinks were estimated from censuses in four age classes of forest: unlogged, just logged, 1-year logged and 10-15 year regrowth. The effects of topography (ridge and gully) were examined in each age class. A fire in November 1980…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burney, Buhler
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacPhee
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Markalas
After a long lasting study of a great number of Pinus halepensis, P. brutia and P. nigra trees which were burnt or damaged by the developed high temperatures during forest fires in Greece, there were identiifed 24 species of bark and wood boring insects. Except one hymenopterous…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacKay, Rebeles, Arrendondo, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Vinson
We investigated the effect of slashing and burning a tropical forest on native ant populations in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. We sampled ant populations one month after the forest was burned and compared species present with species occurring in the adjacent forest. We found…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Phillips, George
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knize
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shideler, Hendrick
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
King
The transition of restoration from a science, craft and labor of love to a business raises questions about ecological values and economic costs. An environmental economist summarizes some problems and offers a framework for evaluating the costs and expected results of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magill
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grumbine
Cooperation between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Department of Interior (USDI) National Park Service is most often advocated to protect biological diversity on national forests and parks, but the agencies, so far, have…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Arbaugh, Pollock, Robinson
Dendroecological methods were used to study the effects of wildfire on radial growth of Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) and Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) in the northern Rocky Mountains. Mean basal area increment during a 4-year postfire period declined relative to prefire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
An account is presented of the initial long-range, 30-day, projections of fire growth of the wildfires in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1988. The request for information, the method of prediction, and the actual fire growth are discussed and documented with maps. The…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss
From the text ... 'The best that land managers might do to cope with these problems, with respect to maintaining biodiversity, is to attempt to mimic the natural disturbance regime (however changing) with their management activities. Because land management is essentially a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hogenbirk, Wein
Drought and fire, which may increase in frequency and severity because of global warming, were simulated in mid-boreal wetlands by transplanting soil blocks upslope to a lower water table and by prescribed burns. In the 2 years after treatments were applied to seasonally flooded…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
From the Summary ... 'Wilderness is, in many ways, a uniquely New World concept. Our concepts of wilderness grew in parallel with our nineteenth century notions of frontier, the contrast of landscapes conquered by humans versus those free of human intervention. In the sense that…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Wein
Vegetation and terrain analyses of 1312 air photos spanning the subarctic, low arctic, and portions of the adjacent high boreal region of northwestern Canada permitted geographic characterization of the areal pattern of burned forest and forest-tundra vegetation. In terms of its…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burke
The review of 'relocation, repatriation and translocation' (RRT's) of amphibians and reptiles by Dodd and Seigel (1991) provides a summary of the literature on the use of these techniques for conservation purposes. Basically, the question that they attempt to answer is given…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
Wildlife managers lack a scientifically sound basis from which to formulate management policy regarding many host-parasite interactions. One contributing factor to this problem is the paucity of hypothetico-deductive (H-D) research concerning the ecological consequences of host-…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS