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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rothermel, Wilson, Morris, Sackett
A model, based on the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code, was modified to account for solar heating of fuels and to predict diurnal trends in fine fuel moisture. The model was tested against actual moisture data from general fuel types in Texas, Arizona, Idaho and Alaska. Moisture…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magoun, Vernam
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linton, Safranyik
Published literature dealing with the taxonomy, biology, ecology and management of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufpennis (Kirby), has been briefly annotated. This bibliography contains 311 references, with author and subject indexes. Its purpose is to provide easy access to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieb, Tobey, Eide
As a continuation on the Nelchina caribou range relationships study initiated in 1955 and last reported on in 1972, 38 range stations were examined during the summers of 1977 and 1983. Evaluations of plant species composition, height, percent cover, condition, and use were made…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirby, Lewis, Sexson
This biological report fills two important voids in the libraries of many wildlife biologists- an annotated bibliography on fire in north America wetland ecosystems and a subject index of all fire-related literature that has appeared in Wildlife Review.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsten
The present infestation is believed to have developed from a combination of factors: 1) large amounts of breeding material resulting from the Rosie Creek Fire and broken tops originating from heavy snowfalls in the 1984-85 winter, and 2) abnormally low snowfall in 1985-86 and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Messier, Huot, Le Henaff, Luttich
The George River herd in northern Quebec/Labrador increased from about 5000 animals in 1945 to 472,200 (or 1.1 caribou multiplied by km^-2) prior to the 1984 calving season. The range used by the herd expanded from 160,000 to 442,000 km2 for the period 1971-84. The exponential…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Billington
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Chapin
In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of browsing by mammals upon recruitment of trees and shrubs during plant succession in boreal forests. Radiation, soil temperature, and nutrient availability decline sharply through succession in Alaska, and they are probably the…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Over the past two decades numerous paleoecological records have become available for describing past plant communities. They show that vegetation has changed on almost all temporal and spatial scales in response to natural environmental variation. Because species have responded…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vitt, Marsh, Bovey
From back cover: 'This book brings the small yet beautiful world of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns to those interested in understanding more about their surroundings. They are relatively inconspicuous plants that play biologically and potentially economically…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Excerpted from preface: 'The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Disturbance shapes the characteristics of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. As evidence mounts that disturbance influences virtually all vegetation types and levels of ecological organization, its role as a selective agent and ecosystem process has gained…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper offers some suggestions and field guides with respect to the operational application of C.E. Van Wagner's (1997, Can. J. For. Res. 7:23-34) theory to calculate the threshold conditions for the start and spread of crown fires in conifer forests. Three categories of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
The forests of interior Alaska are used for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. Multiple- or single-use management of these forests requires a working knowledge of how these uses affect the sustained yield or availability of a particular product or use. Many biotic…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The primary environmental variable that appears to regulate the function and, to some extent, the structure of Alaskan taiga ecosystems is soil temperature (Van Cleve et al. 1983, Van Cleve and Dyrness 1983). The structural and functional changes that occur in relation to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Plant communities in taiga forest ecosystems harbor an array of insects that exploit the vast biomass within these ecosystems. Phytophagous insects with associated parasites, predators, and saprophytes form a discrete insect community. Phytophagous species often differ among…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grime, Anderson
Taiga organisms experience an extremely short growing season and cold winter temperatures; but within the growing season, environmental conditions vary considerably among sites, ranging from cold, wet, black spruce forests on north-facing slopes to extremely warm, droughted…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flanagan
Several years ago the author started to view taiga forests in terms of an energy and nutrient limitation theory, for simplicity, separating taiga forests into two basic units - the plants and the microbes. The fauna was omitted; no doubt they are most important in mineralization…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin
The objective of this chapter is to evaluate the impact of various environmental factors and inherent growth potential to explain patterns of nutrient use and production of Alaskan taiga forest trees.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Viereck, Van Cleve
From introduction: 'Most forest communities in interior Alaska have been extensively influenced by recurring fire. To a large extent, the distribution of the dominant tree species has been shaped by fire. First-time visitors are often struck by the small-scale mosaic of forest…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harmon, Franklin, Swanson, Sollins, Gregory, Lattin, Anderson, Cline, Aumen, Sedell, Lienkaemper, Cromack, Cummins
Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hegy, Quenet
The data base of the Planning and Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests, consists of approximately 7000 forest cover maps, descriptive statistics, growth information and depletion data. This data base must be current and hence, needs to be updated annually. Maintaining an…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES