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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Goldammer
[no description entered]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tyler, D'Antonio
In circumstances where species vie for limited resources, disturbance can preclude competition by lowering population densities and thereby relieving pressure on resources. For that reason, competition is believed to be unimportant in the establishment of plant seedlings…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wolf
This article examines the role of the concept of financially profitable forestry in early agency thinking. It discusses the use of profit as a ground for creating the Forest service to manage the nation's forest reserves, and the continual efforts of the Service, after its…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), a 'new generation' knowledge management tool, is designed to store and provide easy user access to state-of-the knowledge information on the effects of fire and general ecology of plant species and communities. System software was…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Weaver
Within Whitebark pine's (Pinus albicaulis) relatively narrow zone of occurrence - the highest elevations of tree growth from California and Wyoming north in British Columbia and Alberta -- this species is a member of diverse plant communities. This paper summarizes studies from…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacDeonald, Loope, Usher, Hamann
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trottier, Carbyn, Scotter
Relative abundance of small mammals was monitored in an area of aspen parkland burned periodically in spring or fall over eight years to control trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) encroachment into grassland meadows. Seven small mammal species were trapped on the…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Franklin
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Elliott-Fisk
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bliss
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morrison
An illustrated account of the origin of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (Smokey Bear) Campaign, the people who have worked with it, introduction of the live Smokey Bear, the law and regulations governing the program, and the reasons for Smokey's continued popularity for…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reynolds
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS