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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mann, Plug
Vegetation and soils on fluvial deposits of different ages were used to describe ecosystem development over millennia at a well-drained taiga site in the central Alaska Range. The youngest geomorphic surfaces are not forested, and lie in the active floodplain where they are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liew, Kwoh, Padmanabhan, Lim, Him
Cloud-penetrating C-band synthetic aperture radar imagery acquired during two ERS-1/2 tandem missions (April 1996 and October 1997) was used in mapping burnt areas in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 1997 Southeast Asia forest fire episode. Vegetated areas were classified…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Guritz, Logan, Shindle, Groves, Olmsted, Carsey, Macmahon
One of the largest terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaics, a mosaic of the state of Alaska, was created from 800 ERS-1 SAR summer images. Because of rain events, significant temporal changes of soil moisture often cause substantial changes in the signature of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindgren
Disturbance patterns in the sub-boreal spruce forests of central British Columbia (Canada) have long been thought to result from frequent stand-initiating fires. However, recent evidence suggests that fires in the wetter areas of this region are infrequent (intervals of >500…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
An electronic textbook. A disk version is also available upon request from the author. This text provides background information on the biology, ecology and management of Ips perturbatus. There is also an annotated reference section of the most pertinent Ips information. Subject…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Users' guide to using DDWoodyPC component of the Fuels Management Analyst Plus suite of computer programs. Fuel loading and fuel bed depths can be estimated using photos contained in a number of published fuels photo series that are contained in this program. The average fuel…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The PSExplorerTM program within Fuels Management Analyst facilitates: (1) the viewing of published and locally generated Photo Series; and (2) the searching of published and locally generated Photo Series for photos that meet defined criteria. Searching for photos based on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Anderson, DeHerrera, Reinhardt
User's guide for the Consume 2.1 software system. Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gelobter, Weise, Regelbrugge
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Couturier, Liew, Nakayama, Lim
The authors monitor the change in SAR backscattered intensity from forests in East Kalimantan affected by the 1998 fires, possibly due to vegetation regeneration. Eight ERS scenes were acquired near the Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan, from July 1997 to November 1998. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahill, Blakesley
Denali National Park has been described as having the best air quality measured in the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE). But even this relatively clean site is not entirely free of pollutants caused by human activities.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alvarado, Sandberg, Bare
An analysis of forest fires by using a partitioned probability distribution is presented. Area burned during a fire is fitted to a probability model. This model is partitioned into small, medium, and large fires. Conditional expected values are computed for each partition. Two…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We examined the long-term dynamics of upland boreal forest floors after disturbance by fire. We selected two important and contrasting upland tree species, Pinus banksiana (jack fine) and Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), in three distinct climatic zones across the boreal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Cramer, Brovkin, Fleming, Gardner, Gill, Goldammer, Keane, Koehler, Lenihan, Neilson, Sitch, Thornicke, Venevski, Weber, Wittenberg
From the text...'Disturbance plays a major role in shaping and maintaining many of the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, many ecosystems depend on fire for their very existence. Global Change is expected to result in changed distribution of current ecosystems, changed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCoy, Jaffre, Rigault, Ash
Aim This study investigates the role of fire and post fire succession in determining the structure and composition of vegetation on ultramafic iron crust soils.Location The study was conducted in the Plaines des Lacs region of southern New Caledonia.Methods A survey was made of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Døckersmith, Giardina, Sanford
Individual trees are known to influence soil chemical properties, creating spatial patterns that vary with distance from the stem. The influence of trees on soil chemical properties is commonly viewed as the agronomic basis for low-input agroforestry and shifting cultivation…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urban, Acevedo, Garman
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jonsson, Dahlberg, Nilsson, Zackrisson, Karen
The effects of wildfires on ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungal communities in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands at 4 sites in the boreal zone of northern Sweden were evaluated. Below- and above-ground communities were analysed in terms of species richness and evenness by examining…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. Fire scars for 160 years (1831-1948) for Pinus banksiana, and written fire records from 1927 to 1995, from the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Imbeau, Savard, Gagnon
Comparisons of the effects of logging and fire as disturbance agents on the composition of bird assemblages in boreal ecosystems are still lacking or are limited to the short-term impacts of clear felling. In Quebec, Canada, where the boreal forest is largely dominated by black…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martell
A Markov chain is used to model day to day changes in the Fire Weather Index (FWI) component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The results of statistical analyses of 26 years (1963-1988) of fire weather data recorded at 15 fire weather stations located across the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hornberg, Ostlund, Zackrisson, Bergman
In northern Fennoscandia a rare forest type, characterized by Cladina [Cladonia] spp. (lichens) and Picea abies, occurs on dry productive sites outside the range of permafrost but close to the Scandes mountains. The history of vegetation development and disturbance was…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kissinger
National cooperative wildland fire prevention/education teams are available to support any geographic area preceding and during periods of high fire danger or fire activity. Severity dollars are appropriate for use in mobilizing a team.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gresswell
Synthesis of the literature suggests that physical, chemical, and biological elements of a watershed interact with long-term climate to influence fire regime, and that these factors, in concordance with the postfire vegetation mosaic, combine with local-scale weather to govern…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS