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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintana-Ascencio, Gonzalez-Espinosa, Ramirez-Marcial, Domingues-Vazquez, Martinez-Ico
The traditional milpa agriculture system (slash-burn) of the Lacandon Maya people in eastern Chiapas, Mexico has created and uses a variety of habitat patches including the whole range of seral stages during forest development. This study examines seed bank attributes in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of Alberta using artificial neural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staton
As a restorationist who has been conducting and supervising prescribed fires for more than 18 years, I have long been concerned about the casual way many restorationists approach this potentially dangerous aspect of restoration. I would like to suggest that restoration-oriented…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott
From the Introduction...'Several decades of fire suppression following logging around the turn-of-the-century has produced dense, even-age stands of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). They contrast with the original forests where frequent,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Evenden
From the Conclusions...'Attempts to exclude fire from wildland ecosystems in the Intermountain and Pacific Northwest Regions have had serious ecological impacts on at least 79 of the established and proposed Research Natural Areas. Numerous ecological and operational challenges…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch, Cook
From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pojar
The western boreal forest of North America (Manitoba through Alaska) has a typical boreal climate, but the largely sedimentary Interior Plains and the northern Cordillera (part of which was ice-free in the Pleistocene) are physiographically and geologically very different from…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Brubaker, Anderson
Analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils, macroscopic charcoal, mollusks, magnetic susceptibility, and geochemical content of a sediment core from Farewell Lake yield a 11,000-yr record of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem changes in the northwestern foothills of the Alaska Range…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Ruedy, Sato, Reynolds
Global surface air temperature has increased about 0.5°C from the minimum of mid-1992, a year after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Both a land-based surface air temperature record and a land-marine temperature index place the meteorological year 1995 at approximately the same level…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Harrington
Ecosystems are envisioned as integrated, complex systems with both living and non-living components, that are linked through processes of energy flow and nutrient cycling (Bowen, 1971; Ricklefs, 1979). The ecosystem approach seeks to describe the components of this system, the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vanderlinden
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parsons, Botti
Over the past century, policies related to the management of fire in U.S. National Parks have evolved fiom efforts to eliminate all fire to recognition of the importance of restoring and maintaining fire as a natural ecological process. Prior to their formal designation by…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Fire has been an important evolutionary influence in forests, affecting species composition, structure, and functional aspects of forest biology. Restoration of wildland forests of the future will depend in part on restoring fire to an appropriate role in forest ecosystems. This…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mutch, Cook
Periodic forest, grassland, and shrubland fires are part of the natural environment-as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind (Heinselman 1978). Evidence of past fires is found in charcoal layers in lakes and bogs, and in the fire-scarred cross sections of trees. Recurring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
In September 1995, the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) held its Annual Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting included two dozen conferences and several symposia and field trips dealing with various aspects of applying ecological restoration on…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Running
Chapter 23 in the book titled, Global change and terrestrial ecosystems.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Starfield, Chapin
One of the greatest challenges in global-change research is to predict the future distribution of vegetation. Most models of vegetation change predict either the response of a patch of present vegetation to climatic change or the future equilibrium distribution of vegetation…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nash, Johnson
The coupling of synoptic scale weather conditions with local scale weather and fuel conditions was examined for 2551 fires and 1,537,624 lightning strikes for the May-August fire seasons in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The probability of lightning fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bauer
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) is the lowest portion of the Earth's atmosphere which is affected significantly by the properties of the Earth's (land or ocean) surface. The ABL may show a large daily variation in wind, temperature, and stability or turbulence. The ABL is…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES