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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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
Bergeron, Archambault
Fire history over the last 225 years has been reconstructed far the Lake Duparquet area in Northwestern Quebec. The cumulative distribution of burn areas has shown two distinct periods of stable fire cycle. The present fire cycle of -90 years contrasts with the -53 year fire…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Diaz, Andrews, Short
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Esser
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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
Davis
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barry
The recruitment strength of Phragmatopoma lapidosa californica, a gregarious, sedentary, tube-building polychaete from shallow marine habitats along the open coast of California, was significantly correlated to wave disturbance intensity during the previous 2 to 5 mo. This…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tomback
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Chen, Alpert, Fujioka
The forecast skill of the National Meteorological Center's medium range forecast (MRF) numerical forecasts of fire weather variables is assessed for the period June 1, 1988 to May 31, 1990. Near-surface virtual temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and a derived fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reynolds
From the text: 'On July 21, 1988, with about 16,600 acres already burned, the Part Service suspended the monitoring policy: from that point all fires would be fought. To advise the Greaer Yellowstone Unified Area Command in planning fire strategy, fire behavior analysts depended…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rich
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kaufman, Fraser, Mahoney
Emission from burning of fossil fuels and biomass ( associated with deforestation ) generates a radiative forcing on the atmosphere and a possible climate change. Emitted trace gases heat the atmosphere through their greenhouse effect, while particulates formed from emitted SO2…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leps, Rejmánek
The idea of successional convergence is reviewed to show that there are at least four groups of factors influencing the apparent or real convergence/divergence of successional seres in an area. They are: (1) the differentiation of young and late successional communities is…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker, Egbert, Frazier
Global warming may have many consequences for natural ecosystems, including a change in disturbance regimes. No current model of landscapes subject to disturbance incorporates the effect of climatic change on disturbances on decade to century times scales, or addresses…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
Specification of monthly mean surface weather elements from concurrent fields of 700 mbar monthly mean height anomaly can help the US Forest Service to evaluate the potential for wildland fires. Multiple regression equations, therefore, were derived for anomalies of monthly mean…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurz, Sampson
From the text...'In this paper, we will provide a brief overview of the predictions of climatic change and the current understanding of forest response through changes in growth rates, disturbance regimes, and species composition. We will explore the implications of these…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of pines in and adjacent to their…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS