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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species and of tree species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (>90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landhausser, Wein
1. A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. 2. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in 1973…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vasconcelos, Zeigler
The objective of this work is to illustrate the potential of discrete-event simulation methodologies and object-oriented hierarchical models to simulate landscape dynamics. We formalized the Noble and Slatyer vegetation replacement scheme in a modular, object-oriented formalism…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis, Clements
In this note we demonstrate that the Buckney and Morrison (1992) data subsets are located on different geomorphological units and different pre-mining plant communities with different fire histories. The conclusions that they have drawn from their data are therefore not valid.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational reconstruction was aided by…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
The impact of fire suppression on ecosystems with long fire return intervals has been considered negligible. It is argued that, since fire suppresssion has been effective for only the last 30 to 50 years, fire suppresssion could not possibly have had much of an impact where the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maldonado
The paper represents factors that cause wildland fires and their diverse impacts on Mexico. It also outlines how the Mexican government establishes and operates prevention and suppression programs by taking advantage of participation by all sectors in our society trying to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
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
Doren, Roberts, Richardson
Fire as an ecological factor is of major importance in the distribution, species composition, and productivity of the sand pine scrub community, both in its own right and as it interacts with other factors such as animal influences, trophic factors, soil particle movement, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
One of the studies being conducted by the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana in an analysis of the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire occurrence data. We believe that this work can be used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Van Wagner
This study investigates the impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada. Using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 X CO2), simulation results from three general circulation models (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
This study investigates the relationship between lightning activity and the occurrence of lightning-ignited forest fires in the Northwestern Region of Ontario. We found that the Duff Moisture Code (a component of the Fire Weather Index System) and the multiplicity of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions during and after burning may have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
As
Modern forestry has changed the fire dynamics in the boreal forest, and as a result the size and number of deciduous forest patches have been reduced as well as the number of deciduous trees within coniferous forests. This has exaggerated the insularity of deciduous forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates indicate that the entire reion…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
1 The postglacial history of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) at its northernmost distribution limit in the upper boreal forest, along the Grande Riviere de la Baleine (northern Quebec), was reconstructed by using radiocarbon-dated conifer macrofossils found in dune palaeosols…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gromtsev
Fire layers in peat columns from bogs, and carbon layers in soil trenches on dry ground were used to analyse the pattern of occurrence of fires in natural spruce [Picea abies] and pine [Pinus sylvestris] boreal forests of Karelia during the last 3000-6000 years. Results of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES