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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guo
Diversity, biomass, and productivity, the three key community/ecosystem variables, are interrelated and pose reciprocal influences on each other. The relationships among the three variables have been a central focus in ecology and formed two schools of fundamentally different…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Kantelhardt, Scheiter, Boerner
Classic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively low and constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly influenced by stochastic processes. Opportunistic strategies that force animal numbers…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Harper, Paré, Bergeron
Questions: 1. How does the spatial structure of the organic layer affect tree sapling physiology? 2. Are the organic layer and Picea mariana height growth spatially structured at different scales? 3. Does microtopography influence the accumulation of organic matter and does…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Castro-Luna, Sosa, Castillo-Campos
Under the hypothesis that bat diversity would be lower in the early stages of secondary succession and that species affected negatively by habitat modification would be more frequent in later successional stages, we evaluated how bats use 12 vegetation stands representing four…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dokas, Statheropoulos, Karma
A risk assessment framework was used to assess the risks of forest fire smoke (ffs) to the exposed communities, critical infrastructures and the environment. The present work is focused on the planning and problem formulation phases of this risk assessment procedure.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pueyo
Here I present a new approach to forecasting the effects of climate change on catastrophic events, based on the 'self-organised criticality' concept from statistical physics. In particular, I develop the 'self-organised critical fuel succession model' (SOCFUS), which deals with…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Karpuk
Historical low-severity fire regimes are well characterized in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests at many sites in the western United States, but not in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. We reconstructed a history of low-severity fires (1750-1950) near the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheller, Mladenoff
Computer models are increasingly being used by forest ecologists and managers to simulate long-term forest landscape change. We review models of forest landscape change from an ecological rather than methodological perspective. We developed a classification based on the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerby, Fuhlendorf, Engle
Fire and grazing are ecological processes that frequently interact to modify landscape patterns of vegetation. There is empirical and theoretical evidence that response of herbivores to heterogeneity is scale-dependent however the relationship between fire and scale of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pulido, Valverde, Caballero
To understand the population dynamics of a species, it is necessary to document the way in which its demographic behaviour varies through space and time. Anthropogenic disturbance, such as shifting cultivation, is an important factor causing demographic variation in many…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dalerum, Boutin, Dunford
Wildfire can rapidly alter the forage availability for boreal ungulates such as woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou Gmelin, 1788). Since fire decreases available lichens, a crucial food source for caribou, it may be an important determinant of caribou range use and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
An algorithm for wildfire occurrence is introduced for incorporation into a numerical model of drainage basin evolution. Within the model, fire return intervals are determined using a stochastic rule set and fire sizes are assigned according to a pareto distribution. A Weibull…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Belleau, Bergeron, Leduc, Gauthier, Fall
It is now recognized that in the Canadian boreal forest, timber harvesting activities have replaced wildfires as the main stand-replacing disturbance. Differences in landscape patterns derived from these two sources of disturbance have, however, raised concerns that the way…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
Wildland fire use as a concept had its origin when humans first gained the ability to suppress fires. Some fires were suppressed and others were allowed to burn based on human values and objectives. Native Americans and Euro-American settlers fought those fires that threatened…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text ... 'What better way to learn about fire ecology than to allow fires to burn during their own season, at their own pace, and without interference from humans? The strategy known as wildland fire use (WFU) does just that, and is being increasingly applied, with over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
The strategy known as wildland fire use, in which lightning-ignited fires are allowed to burn, is rapidly gaining momentum in the fire management community. Managers need to know the consequences of an increase in area burned that might result from an increase in wildland fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vera-Vilchis, Rodríguez-Trejo
In many countries there is scarce information on the impact of prescribed burns and forest fires, despite its importance for fire management, hence the objective of the present investigation, conducted on the Ajusco volcano at Mkico, D.F., was to study the effect of fire on the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gao, Xiong, Li, Wang
The 3.75-µm and 11-µm channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Hodges, Vaughan, Shepherd
From the text ... 'Despite the recognized importance of pollination services, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests pollinators are at risk. In the United States, the National Research Council (2006) reported that both managed honey bee colonies and wild pollinators…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'Wildfire has always been a periodic visitor to western forests, part of the cycle of natural dynamics that make these forests what they are. Until recently, the standard explanation for increased wildfires in recent decades has been an unnatural buildup of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cairney, Bastias
Wildfires and prescribed burns constitute widespread and potentially destructive disturbances in forest ecosystems. Fire-related effects on aboveground ecosystem components are well established, and it is known that fire can have both a direct and an indirect influence on the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dupuy, Vachet, Marechal, Melendez, de Castro
We describe emission-transmission measurements performed at different heights in a flame from a cylindrical forest fuel burner, using a camera operating in the thermal infrared (7.5-13 µm). The forest fuel burner was made of a cylindrical wire mesh basket filled with a forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Wildland fire research has historically orbited around a physical paradigm of fire. This strategy has yielded remarkable results, yet increasingly it cannot speak to the core issues that concern fire management. Two additional paradigms are needed. One would build on fire's…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Lozier, Comendant, Kareiva, Kiesecker, Shaw, Merenlender
Conservation easements are one of the primary tools for conserving biodiversity on private land. Despite their increasing use, little quantitative data are available on what species and habitats conservation easements aim to protect, how much structural development they allow,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacDougall, Turkington
The reintroduction of burning is usually viewed as critical for grassland restoration; but its ecological necessity is often untested. On the one hand, fire may be irreplaceable because it suppresses dominant competitors, eliminates litter, and modifies resource availability. On…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS