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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hennon
Heart rot fungi cause substantial economic loss in many forests, but their ecological roles in altering the speed or direction of succession are frequently overlooked. As heart rot induces trees to die standing or, more commonly, by bole breakage, the fungi that cause heart rot…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Shaw, Hansen
Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach) has been declining and dying for a long, but undetermined, span of time in remote and undisturbed forests of southeast Alaska. Aerial photographs indicate mortality was widespread by 1927. The dates of death for…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Hansen, Shaw
Alaska-cedar, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach, has been dying in undisturbed forests throughout southeast Alaska for the last 100 years. To determine if decline spreads, boundaries of mortality at seven sites with decline were mapped using aerial photographs taken in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanson
The interior of Alaska is a vast area characterized by cold soils which are often underlain by permafrost; a continental climate with great extremes in temperature; and the taiga, a pattern of boreal forest and tundra which is largely the result of past wildfires (Viereck, 1973…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gara, Werner, Whitmore, Holsten
The impact of competitors, parasites and predators on spruce beetle Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby) broods was studied at an endemic population site near Fairbanks, Alaska, as well as at an epidemic area near Summit Lake and Cooper Landing. Logs of white spruce, Picea glauca (…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Berry
The results of a study using satellite imagery to map boreal forest fires in Alaska in 1990 and 1991 are presented. Composite AVHRR data detected >80% of fires greater than 2000 ha in size. Additionally, using a two season method, 78% of the area of all boreal forest fires in…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie
The classic account of primary succession inferred from a 220-yr glacial retreat chronosequence at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska was compared to reconstructions of stand development based on tree-ring records from 850 trees at 10 sites of different age. The three oldest…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
This paper reviews methods used for testing the fit of the cumulative form of a negative exponential distribution to the cumulative distribution of forest age-classes. It is shown that existing methods can lead to a greater chance of falsely rejecting the fit of the negative…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crête, Drolet, Huot, Fortin, Doucet
Diversity of passerine birds and mammals was estimated in well-drained areas located at proximity of the hydroelectric reservoir La Grande-3, where natural fire regime still prevails in the absence of forest exploitation. Forest stands were divided up into four post-fire stages…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Shaver, Giblin, Nadelhoffer, Laundre
We manipulated light, temperature, and nutrients in moist tussock tundra near Toolik Lake, Alaska to determine how global changes in these parameters might affect community and ecosystem processes. Some of these manipulations altered nutrient availability, growth-form…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Structure of native vertebrate faunas within 12 different forest types were related to features of the natural fire regime. Relations between faunal structure and fire regime followed patterns expected if faunas were adapted to fire regimes. Proportions of species breeding early…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Zackrisson
Successional processes within northern Swedish boreal forest are investigated for the last 2000 years by analysis of pollen, charcoal fragments and insect remains preserved in a deep mor humus layer on a small island in a large lake. Frequent disturbances by fire, blow-down,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan, Shugart, Urban
A gap model of environmental processes and vegetation patterns in boreal forests was used to examine the sensitivity of permafrost and permafrostfree forests in interior Alaska to air temperature and precipitation changes. These analyses indicated that in the uplands of interior…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker
Prescribed burns usually have minimal hydrologic impact on watersheds because the surface vegetation, litter, and forest floor is only partially burned. Wildfire can, however, have a pronounced effect on basic hydrologic processes, leading to the increased sensitivity of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonan
A model of carbon and nitrogen cycling developed with ecological relationships from upland boreal forests in interior Alaska was tested with forest structure and forest floor data from several bioclimatic regions of the North American boreal forest. Test forests included black…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
Vegetative reproduction, above-ground biomass and nutrient pools, and litterfall and substrate nutrient conditions were evaluated in eastern Ontario immature (age 20 years) aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx. and P. grandidentata (Michx.) ecosystems which had been subjected to the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Margolis, Brand
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levine, Cofer, Sebacher, Rhinehart, Winstead, Sebacher, Hinkle, Schmalzer, Koller
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Wein
Wildfires after prolonged drought consume quantities of fallen trees and soil organic layers. We hypothesized that conflicts within the literature about establishment success of conifers on the resulting ash were a result of the different types of ash used (from wood or peat)…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
'The United States obtains approximately 2.7 quads of energy per year from biomass while producing 1.5-3.0 million tons of ash. In the future, energy from biomass should increase to 4 quads, and perhaps it will go as high as 10-20 quads (1). Most of this energy comes from paper…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Consistent success in prescribed underburning requires managers to specify acceptable levels of fire injury and to describe the fuels, weather, and fire behavior necessary to accomplish the objectives. Information is assembled to assist managers in this process. Relationships…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair, Evin, Pages
Robinia pseudocacia stem annual growth rings from 1958 to 1987 were analyzed for 14C content. The radioactivity of annual rings was found to be strongly correlated with 14C concentration in the atmosphere, which showed a very sharp rise until 1963 due to nuclear weapon tests…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mead
Vegetation phytomass tables are presented for the Tanana River basin. Average phytomass for each species of tree, shrub, grass, forb, lichen, and moss in 13 forest and 30 nonforest vegetation types is shown. These data combined with area estimates for each vegetation type…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Christensen, Stocks
Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in boreal forests are likely to increase significantly. A sensitivity analysis on the relationship between fire and carbon…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS