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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Simard
From the introduction (page 5): 'The present paper is the first of a series dealing with forest fuel moisture. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide regression equations for estimating forest fuel moisture directly from antecedent and current weather observations. This…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shideler, Robus, Winters, Kuwada
Notes (Do Not Cite): Discusses theories of caribou population dynamics: forage theory, predation theory, and dispersal theory. Provides examples of major changes in caribou distribution and abundance worldwide. Provides literature review on impacts of agriculture, air transport…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shideler
Notes (Do Not Cite): Overview of oil/gas development in the CAH range, and CAH distribution and movements. Discussion on impacts, including direct habitat loss, harassment, avoidance of developments, disruption of movements, and increase in predation or harvest. Includes…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel, Wilson, Morris, Sackett
A model, based on the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code, was modified to account for solar heating of fuels and to predict diurnal trends in fine fuel moisture. The model was tested against actual moisture data from general fuel types in Texas, Arizona, Idaho and Alaska. Moisture…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patric, Black
From introduction: 'Long ago, Fernow wrote concerning 'the desirability of utilizing the Weather Bureau, the various agricultural experiment stations, and other forces, in forming a systematic service of water stations, and in making a careful survey of the conditions of water…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magoun, Vernam
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieb, Tobey, Eide
As a continuation on the Nelchina caribou range relationships study initiated in 1955 and last reported on in 1972, 38 range stations were examined during the summers of 1977 and 1983. Evaluations of plant species composition, height, percent cover, condition, and use were made…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelsall
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002 (https://www.frames.gov/catalog/18093)] Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
The present infestation is believed to have developed from a combination of factors: 1) large amounts of breeding material resulting from the Rosie Creek Fire and broken tops originating from heavy snowfalls in the 1984-85 winter, and 2) abnormally low snowfall in 1985-86 and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby, Curtis
Spruce bettle remains at epidemic levels in area of the Kenai Peninsula and areas of activity were noted in the Copper River Valley. Large aspen tortix was common throughout interior Alaska. Hemlock sawfly declined sharply in southeast Alaska. Black-headed budworm populations…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
In this report, we have presented spread index and buildup index frequency information for selected stations in Alaska. Also, methods to extract and utilize the information were discussed. In doing this, we have provided another tool for the fire planners in Alaska. The tool…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Billington
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Chapin
In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of browsing by mammals upon recruitment of trees and shrubs during plant succession in boreal forests. Radiation, soil temperature, and nutrient availability decline sharply through succession in Alaska, and they are probably the…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Excerpted from preface: 'The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hulten
This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras—the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region—is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skoog
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Disturbance shapes the characteristics of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. As evidence mounts that disturbance influences virtually all vegetation types and levels of ecological organization, its role as a selective agent and ecosystem process has gained…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
The forests of interior Alaska are used for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. Multiple- or single-use management of these forests requires a working knowledge of how these uses affect the sustained yield or availability of a particular product or use. Many biotic…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The primary environmental variable that appears to regulate the function and, to some extent, the structure of Alaskan taiga ecosystems is soil temperature (Van Cleve et al. 1983, Van Cleve and Dyrness 1983). The structural and functional changes that occur in relation to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Plant communities in taiga forest ecosystems harbor an array of insects that exploit the vast biomass within these ecosystems. Phytophagous insects with associated parasites, predators, and saprophytes form a discrete insect community. Phytophagous species often differ among…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grime, Anderson
Taiga organisms experience an extremely short growing season and cold winter temperatures; but within the growing season, environmental conditions vary considerably among sites, ranging from cold, wet, black spruce forests on north-facing slopes to extremely warm, droughted…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flanagan
Several years ago the author started to view taiga forests in terms of an energy and nutrient limitation theory, for simplicity, separating taiga forests into two basic units - the plants and the microbes. The fauna was omitted; no doubt they are most important in mineralization…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES