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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Burroughs, Clark
Ecosystem management links human activities with the functioning of natural environments over large spatial and temporal scales. Our examination of Greater Yellowstone and Georges Bank shows similarities exist between human uses, administrative characteristics, and some…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edwards
In May 1990, a test of two levels of site preparation were implemented on a lower Piedmont site. The two silvicultural treatments were: 1 ) a spotgun application of the herbicide Velpar L and 2) brown and burn procedure. Seven 100 ft. x 2 ft. transects were located within each…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rico-Gray, Garcia-Franco
We studied vegetation structure and soil seed bank composition in different successional stages of secondary lowland tropical deciduous forest in Yucatan, Mexico. The Series of study sites includes: slashed (S), slashed-and-burned (SB), and regenerating for 1, 6, 10, 15, 30, 40…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, George, Trethewey
This paper presents the results of a study of handcrew fireline production rates. The methods are discussed. Tables and figures show the data collected and their analysis in a variety of stratifications. The basic data from the study are also presented. Because of the limited…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmalzer, Hinkle
We sampled previously established permanent line intercept transects (15 m length) of oak-saw palmetto scrub 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months after a 1986 fire. We recorded cover by taxon in the 0-0.5 m and > 0.5 m height layers. Transects were located in two stands that…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holliday
Following an intense forest fire, carabid beetles were sampled by pitfall trapping in a burned site that had been dominated before the fire by aspen, Populus tremuloides, in a second burned site that had been dominated by conifers (Picea spp.), and in matching unburned sites. In…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Bratton, Hadidian
To assess the impact of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on endangered and threatened flora, we reviewed pertinent literature and conducted a telephone survey of professional botanists, endangered species scientists, natural area managers, and U.S. National Park…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podolsky
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schonewald-Cox, Buechner, Sauvajot, Wilcox
Protecting biodiversity on public lands is difficult, requiring the management of a complex array of factors. This is especially true when the ecosystems in question are affected by, or extend onto, lands outside the boundries of the protected area. In this article we review…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Densmore
The long-term effects of planted grass on the rate and pattern of succession were evaluated on a construction-disturbed alluvial fan tundra site in the central Brooks Range of Alaska. Plots were evaluated 4 and 11 yr after the site was scarified and partially fertilized and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradstock, Bedward
Simulations were used to investigate the effect of season of fire on seedling emergence in Banksia ericifolia and B. serrata. The simulations were based on models of soil-surface moisture in response to rainfall, seedling emergence response to soil moisture and post-fire seed…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
The northernmost jack pine populations in northern Quebec are located at the boreal forest - forest tundra boundary, along the Grande riviere de la Baleine, where they colonize the sandy terraces affected by recurrent fires. The reent fire history in the study area, are deduced…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soberon
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Fuller (1991) concluded that pellet group counts do not index white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus ) numbers based on lack of correlation between 5 years of pellet counts and corresponding aerial surveys; however, this conclusion was drawn without knowing the tree deer…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller
White (1992) elucidates important limitations using correlation analyses to test population indices. However, in reevaluating Fuller's (1991) white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) aerial survey and pellet count data, White (1992), through exhaustive computer simulation,…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oomes
The relation between the dry matter production and species density of 27 grasslands with different fertilization histories in the Netherlands was studied.© IVAS; Opulus Press Uppsala.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Laven, Fiedler
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houle
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huenneke
Those responsible for protecting 'sensitive' plants and vegetation possess a wealth of empirical evidence that could be used to test predictions of ecological and conservation biology theory. Real-life management issues offer perfect laboratories for research in population and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cabrera-Perez, Garcia-Moya, Romero-Manzanares
Saltgrass cover the bed lake of Texcoco, Mexico. Spring burning is practiced to promote growth and to improve forage quality. To test the effect of burning on productivity an expriment with two treatments, burning and control with three replications was established. Monthly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
Natural disturbances were ubiquitous, even inevitable, on many landscapes. Human intervention in disturbance regimes and patterns of ecosystem response is also ubiquitous with historic precedent over evolutionary time scales, continuing extensive landscape modification, and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
The traditional notion that all fires need to be put out immediately is no longer the only approach to fire management. Rather, land managers are challenged to make situation-specific decisions with each fire start. There are situations when the decision involves suppression…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rasker
In the Greater Yellowstone area there is a perceived controversy between conservation efforts and economic well-being. This controversy is fueled by misconceptions about the economy and the role played by public lands in the region. In this paper three commonly held myths are…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS