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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Secular climate change in old-growth tree-line vegetation of northern Quebec

Payette, Filion, Gauthier, Boutin
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

Payette, Gagnon
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

CITPUFF: a Gaussion puff model for estimating pollutant concentration in complex terrain

Ross, Fox, Dietrich, Childs, Marlatt
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire policies and programs for the National Park System

Butts
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tundra fire regimes in the Noatak River Watershed, Alaska: 1956-83

Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1 000 000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada

Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands.(2) Macrofossil analysis of mor humus profiles in mature…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A decade with the Forestry Weather Interpretation System (FWIS)

Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Nuclear winter: will the forests burn

Reifsnyder, Berry
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-index to their calibration coefficients including potential evapotranspiration

Karl
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Palmer Drought Index and its availability as an indicator of forest fire watch areas

Heddinghaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought and synoptic fire climatology of the boreal forest region of the Canada prairie provinces

Street
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fire danger and fire occurrence for wilderness fire management

Saveland
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather -- the drive train connecting the solar engine to forest ecosystems: Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, No. 8

[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Making the case for cumulative impacts assessment: modeling the potential impacts of climate change, harvesting, oil and gas, and fire

Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age class structure and spatial…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influences of climate on fire regimes in montane forests of north-western Mexico

Skinner, Burk, Barbour, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Aim To identify the influence of interannual and interdecadal climate variation on the occurrence and extent of fires in montane conifer forests of north-western Mexico.Location This study was conducted in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)dominated mixed-conifer…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cloud effects from boreal forest fire smoke: evidence for ice nucleation from polarization lidar data and cloud model simulations

Sassen, Khvorostyanov
Polarization lidar observations from the interior of Alaska have revealed unusual supercooled altocumulus cloud conditions in the presence of boreal forest fire smoke from local and regional fires. At temperatures of about -15ºC, the lidar data show ice nucleation prior to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Integrating climate change into forest management in South-Central British Columbia: an assessment of landscape vulnerability and development of a climate-smart framework

Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes influenced by forest management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spatial and temporal variability in fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Durango, Mexico

Drury, Veblen
Patterns of fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Mexico are analyzed in relation to variability in climate, topography, and human land-use. Significantly more fires with shorter fire return intervals occurred from 1900 to 1950 than from 1950 to 2001. However,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Increasing wildfire in Alaska's boreal forest: pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem

Chapin, Trainor, Huntington, Lovecraft, Zavaleta, Natcher, McGuire, Nelson, Ray, Calef, Fresco, Huntington, Rupp, DeWilde, Naylor
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of ''wicked problems'' for which there are no optimal solutions. In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The lightning-biota climatic feedback

Shepon, Gildor
We investigate a negative climatic feedback which involves an increase in deposition of lightning-produced nitrogen compounds into ecosystems as a response to a global temperature rise. This increases primary production on both land and ocean, which reduces atmospheric carbon…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) diversity in the black spruce succession of eastern Canada

Paquin
This study provides the first assessment of carabid beetle diversity in a natural forest context that encompasses a complete black spruce (Picea mariana) natural succession. Boreal forest conservation has been based on several assumptions about forest age that only consider…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recovery of aboveground plant biomass and productivity after fire in mesic and dry black spruce forests of interior Alaska

Mack, Treseder, Manies, Harden, Schuur, Vogel, Randerson, Chapin
Plant biomass accumulation and productivity are important determinants of ecosystem carbon (C) balance during post-fire succession. In boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, we quantified aboveground plant biomass and net primary productivity (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the northwestern US based on lake-sediment studies

Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire Climatology in the western United States: introduction to special issue

Swetnam, Anderson
Advances in fire climatology have derived from recent studies of modern and paleoecological records. We convened a series of workshops and a conference session to report and review regional-scale findings, and these meetings led to the 10 papers in this special issue. Two papers…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Phenology of mixed woody-herbaceous ecosystems following extreme events: net and differential responses

Rich, Breshears, White
Ecosystem responses to key climate drivers are reflected in phenological dynamics such as the timing and degree of ''green-up'' that integrate responses over spatial scales from individual plants to ecosystems. This integration is clearest in ecosystems dominated by a single…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS