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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson, Romme, Meyer, Knight, Wallace
From the text...'Bill Wattenburg (Letters, Science's Compass, 6 Nov., p. 1051) accuses the U.S. National Park Service and ecologists quoted by Richard Stone (Research News, 5 June, p. 1527) of struggling 'to rationalize the official burning of the forests of Yellowstone in l988…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wikars
The allocation of resources to dispersal and reproduction in relation to habitat persistence was investigated in three closely related buprestid beetles Melanophila acuminata, Phaneops cyanea and P. formaneki. Their respective breeding habitats are recently burned forest, forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars
The adult phenology of the fire-adapted Melanophila acuminata was more extended than of five related buprestid species. This was caused by a within-brood, or less probably, a between-brood variation in development time in M. acuminata, which was also more variable in adult body…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars, Elewi
The morphology of two types of paired deep depressions situated on the ventral side of the pterothorax of Henoticus serratus (Col., Cryptophagidae) were described. The shape of the depressions and surrounding setae indicate that they function as mycangia and that the legs are…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars
The fauna of wood-living arthropods was studied during two years of succession after tree death in burned and unburned logs at a burned site, and in unburned logs at a clearing and in a forest. Burned spruce logs hosted fewer beetles than unburned logs. Especially bark beetles,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars
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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
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera
Natural fire disturbances are known to have had a significant role in boreal forests at the stand and landscape levels. Van Wagner's exponential model gave useful insight into the theoretical dynamics of the forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. His work…
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
Schwartz, Hermann
In this chapter we review the philosophy and use of prescribed fire in the fragmented landscape of the Midwest. Forty years ago most resource management agencies viewed fire as a destructive force to be suppressed at all costs (reviewed by Pyne 1982). Over time, and with…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
Species composition and abundance of surface vegetation was examined within 4-year-old jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) clear-cuts and clear-cuts treated with prescribed burning. Six unique species including Diervilla lonicera Mill., Convulvulus spithameus L., Erigeron…
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
Karafyllidis, Thanailakis
The model presented, for the first time, in this paper can predict the spreading of fire in both homogeneous and in homogeneous forests and can easily incorporate weather conditions and land topography. An algorithm has been constructed based on the proposed model and was used…
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
Timoney, Peterson, Wein
In this study we compare and contrast vegetation development following natural and logging disturbances in a major boreal river valley. Permanent sample plots and releves were established and sampled for vegetation and landscape attributes in June and July of 1993 and 1994 in…
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
Graham, Holle, Lopez
Present lightning detection networks provide fire managers in the United States with information about potential lightning-caused wildfires. Lightning location information can also be used for other purposes such as planning for prescribed natural fire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin, Coderre
The edaphic macroarthropod communities of three sites representative of the forest succession in the Lake Duparquet region (situated in the southern part of the boreal forest, Abitibi, Quebec, Canada) were studied. A 47-year-old deciduous forest, a 144-year-old mixed forest, and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mandallaz, Ye
This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the prediction of forest ftres in the context of Poisson models. It also gives quantitative and qualitative tools for the assessment of different models, as well as some decision theoretical and cost considerations. Case…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
While the acreage may be smaller, urban burning presents many unique challenges. Photos of recent prescribed fires will be used to demonstrate successful techniques. Challenges include: - 4 known smoke sensitive asthmatics reside within 2 blocks of the burn site. - 1/4 mile…
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