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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Learning About the Enemy

Video about the 1982 Porter Lake experimental burning.
Year: 1982
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

A report on the second year of the Tintamarre Marsh fire ecology study

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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Control of depth to permafrost and soil temperature by the forest floor in black spruce/feathermoss communities

Dyrness
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wood-based paneling as thermal barriers

White
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Plant population dynamics under varying fire regimes

Bradstock
The effects of variations in fire intensity, frequency, and seasonality on the dynamics of four dry sclerophyll species, Banksia ericifolia, Petrophile fucifolia, B. serrata, Isopogon anemonifolius, are being investigated. These species have canopy-retained seedbanks enclosed in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire history in the central Yukon

Johnson, Strang
A study of 59 sites in the Central Yukon showed no strong correlation between plant community and time since burning, the post-fire seral communities being both site and fire-specific. Fire intervals were 33, 69, 57 and 62 years in the South Ogilvie, North Ogilvie, Eagle Plains…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The dilemma of flame length and intensity

Johnson
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ecological effects of slashburning with particular reference to British Columbia: a literature review

Feller
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Horizontal roll vortices and crown fires

Haines
Observational evidence form nine crown fires suggests that horizontal roll vortices are a major mechanism in crown-fire spread. Post-burn aerial photography indicates that unburned tree-crown streets are common with crown fire. Investigation of the understory of these crown…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Practical applications of disturbance ecology to natural resource management

Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues • Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management. • Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances. • Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanistic modeling of landscape fire patterns

Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Predicting forest fire effects at landscape scales [Chapter 7]

Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire induces clonal sprouting of riparian cottonwoods

Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of fire front width on surface fire behaviour

Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The mathematical modeling and computer simulation of wildland fire perimeter growth over a 3-dimensional surface

Richards
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Black sturgeon boreal mixedwood research project

Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term reconstruction of the fire season in the mixedwood boreal forest of western Canada

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. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulating the impact of landscape-level biodiversity guidelines: a case study

Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire vs. clearcutting: impacts on ectomycorrhizal and decomposer fungi

Visser, Parkinson
Intense wildfire is more destructive to the forest floor than timber harvesting with potentially more impact on fungal communities as loss of forest floor structure, microhabitat and resource diversity is more extreme after wildfire. After intense wildfire, decomposer and EM…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The flora and ecology of southern Ontario granite barrens [Chapter 24]

Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Savanna, barrens, and glade communities of the Ozark plateaus province [Chapter 13]

Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak openings currently are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Comment - Reverse cumulative standing age distributions in fire-frequency analysis

Huggard, Arsenault
From the text...'Fire-frequency (FF) analysis is used to derive, from empirical data, parameters that describe the frequency of fires in a system; the time-since-fire distribution; the age-specific probability of fire; and other summary statistics such as the natural fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

TNC Testifies Before The House Committee on Agriculture [Testimony]

Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management implications of recent changes in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests

Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Clearcutting and burning of northern spruce-fir forests: implications for small mammal communities

Sullivan, Lautenschlager, Wagner
1. This study was designed to test the hypotheses that (i) abundance and related demographic parameters of small mammal populations would decline after clearcutting of northern spruce-fir forest, and (ii) prescribed burning, following clearcutting, an approach to emulating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS