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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Fire intensity and frequency as factors in the distribution and structure of northern ecosystems

Heinselman
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50 to 200 years. Cycles and fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Concentrations of CO and O2 and temperature in small scale enclosed fires and a consideration on possible death due to CO poisoning, O2 deficiency and heat

Morikawa
Fire experiments were conducted in small scale compartment models under a forced or natural ventilation. Four liquid fuels of methanol, ethanol, n-hexane and benzene, which are considered to represent thermal decomposition products of polymers, were burned in the fire.…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Particulate matter and aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from the controlled combustion of alpha pinene

Ward
Combustion of a forest fuel complex produces a diverse mixture of oxygenated and unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds mixed with aerosols. This study examines the production rates for a number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) precursor compounds produced from the controlled…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation organization and dynamics of lichen woodland communities in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire recurrence in the subarctic and its implications for vegetation composition

Johnson
The Weibull distribution is shown to fit well with empirical data of fire intervals for a population of sites. The distribution demonstrates that the recurrence of fire in the subarctic forests of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is predictable. The three parameters of the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lichen intake estimates for reindeer and caribou during winter

Holleman, Luick, White
Lichen intakes by reindeer and caribou (Rangifer tarandus) during winter were estimated using penned reindeer, esophageal fistulated reindeer, and by the application of the fallout radiocesium method to free-grazing caribou. Estimated mean values for lichen intake as determined…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Extractable soil nutrients and permafrost under adjacent forest types in interior Alaska

Grigal
Soils in two adjacent forest stands in interior Alaska, one birch (Betula papyrifera) and the other black spruce (Picea mariana), were sampled in 2-cm increments to a depth of 50 cm. The soils had developed from the same parent material and were similar in slope and aspect. The…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Characteristics of spruce beetle (Coleoptera) infestation in felled white spruce in Alaska

Furniss, Baker, Werner, Yarger
The antiaggregation pheromone MCH was ineffective in preventing spruce beetle infestation in felled spruce near Hope, Alaska. The lack of reduction in spruce beetle attacks in treated trees is thought to involve a lower than desired elution rate of MCH. Cooler temperatures in…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vegetation-soil relationships among a spruce forest transect in interior Alaska

Dyrness, Grigal
Five distinct forest communities were recognized along a 3-km transect. These are, listed in order of decreasing elevation: (i) open black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia, (ii) closed black spruce/feathermoss, (iii) open black spruce/Sphagnum, (iv) black spruce woodland/Eriophorum,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Causes of neonatal moose calf mortality in south central Alaska

Ballard, Spraker, Taylor
During spring 1977 and 1978, 136 moose (Alces alces gigas) calves were radio-collared in the Nelchina and Susitna river basins of south central Alaska in an effort to determine causes of mortality. Thirteen calves (9.5%) died as a result of collaring activities. Of the 123…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Buried viable propagules as a factor in post-fire regeneration in northern Saskatchewan

Archibold
Soils collected from seven sample plots in a burned mixed-wood area in northern Saskatchewan were held under optimum laboratory conditions to determine the number of viable seeds and latent underground buds. A total of 270 plants developed, representing a rate of emergence of…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

The nitrogen economy in a Pinus pinea L. stand

Rapp, Leclerc, Lossaint
Nitrogen distribution and nitrogen fluxes were studied in a 35-year-old Pinus pinea L. stand growing on a coastal sand site of the French Mediterranean. The amounts of nitrogen in the aerial and root biomass (301 kg ha-1) in the litter layer (498 kg ha-1) and in the first metre…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dynamics of litter (dry weight, N and P) in relation to prescribed burning in sub-alpine eucalypt forests [abstract]

Connell, Raison, Khanna, Woods
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fall clipping or burning on the distribution of chemical constituents in bluebunch wheatgrass in spring

Willms, Bailey, McLean, Kalnin
We examined the effects of fall clipping or burning on chemical constituents and their distribution in bluebunch wheatgrass the following spring. The study was made in both a big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass and a Douglas fir-bluebunch wheatgrass community. The concentration…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire-induced nutrient losses in a phryganic (east Mediterranean) ecosystem

Arianoutsou, Margaris
After a fire in a phryganic ecosystem, the nutreint losses in above-ground plant biomass, in nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were quantitatively different. The most important is that of nitrogen (96%), followed by magnesium (59%),…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass and nutrient removals by conventional and whole-tree clear-cutting of a red spruce-balsam fir stand in central Nova Scotia

Freedman, Morash, Hanson
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forests humus in the coastal western hemlock biogeoclimatic zone of British Columbia in relation to forest productivity and pedogenesis

Lowe, Klinka
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modification of the soil environment by vegetation fires, with particular reference to nitrogen transformations: a review

Raison
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire regimes on biogeochemical cycles

Woodmansee
The effects of fire on the biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems are considered: (1) the effects on the abiotic controlling factors (temperature, H-ion concentration, ex- changeable bases, available water, and light); (2) the initial, or direct, effects; and (3) the postfire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Effects of fire on water: a state-of-knowledge review

Tiedemann, Conrad, Dieterich, Hornbeck, Megahan, Viereck, Wade
The main effect burning on water quality is the potential for increased runoff of rainfall. Runoff may carry suspended soil particles, dissolved inorganic nutrients, and other materials into adjacent streams and lakes, reducing water quality and degrading fish habitat (Wade and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Infrared imagery applied to a large buoyant plume

Brustet, Benech, Waldteufel
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burning crop residues: effect on selected soil characteristics and long-term wheat yields

Dormaar, Pittman, Spratt
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Carbon input to the atmosphere from forest fires [letter to the editor]

Fahnestock
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS