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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, de Groot, Hirsch, Lanoville
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Woodward, Titus
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gasaway, DuBois, Boertje, Reed, Simpson
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dansereau, Bergeron
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Courtney
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sirois, Payette
Forest regeneration in areas burned during the 1950s in northern Quebec was studied along topographic and climatic gradients, from the northern Boreal Forest to the northern Forest-Tundra. Regenerated plant communities are mostly dominated by Cladina mitis in well-drained…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Gardner, Dale, O'Neill
The expected pattern of disturbance propagation across a landscape was studied by using simple landscape models derived from percolation theory. The spread of disturbance was simulated as a function of the proportion of the landscape occupied by the disturbance-prone habitat and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Singer, Schreier, Oppenheim, Garton
[Excerpt] At the time of the 1988 drought and fires in Yellowstone, studies of the northern range were reevaluating the success of the natural [elk] regulation experiment. Extensive burning in 1988 occurred on five out of the seven elk summer ranges. All four of the elk winter…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robichaud, Ashmun
A considerable investment in post-fire research over the past decade has improved our understanding of wildfire effects on soil, hydrology, erosion and erosion-mitigation treatment effectiveness. Using this new knowledge, we have developed several tools to assist land managers…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bouchard, Dyrda, Bergeron, Meilleur
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson, Connot, Peterson, Martin
The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodically to account for disturbances, growth, and natural succession. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marcoux, Gergel, Daniels
Maps depicting historic fire regimes provide critical baselines for sustainable forest management and wildfire risk assessments. However, given our poor understanding of mixed-severity fire regimes, we asked if there may be considerable errors in fire-regime classification…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Rogan
Wildfires are historically infrequent in the arctic tundra, but are projected to increase with climate warming. Fire effects on tundra ecosystems are poorly understood and difficult to quantify in a remote region where a short growing season severely limits ground data…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bar-Massada, Stewart, Hammer, Mockrin, Radeloff
The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen, Agee, Brussard, Hughes, Knight, Minshall, Peek, Pyne, Swanson, Wells, Thomas, Williams, Wright
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magagi, Berg, Goita, Belair, Jackson, Toth, Walker, McNairn, O'Neill, Moghaddam, Gherboudj, Colliander, Cosh, Belanger, Burgin, Fisher, Kim, Rousseau, Djamai, Shang, Merzouki
The Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10) was carried out in Saskatchewan, Canada, from 31 May to 16 June, 2010. Its main objective was to contribute to Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission validation and the prelaunch assessment of the proposed…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES