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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hard
Periodic outbreaks of black-headed budworms have been reported in southeast Alaska and on Prince William Sound since 1917. The 1950's outbreak caused severe defoliation of mature hemlock and almost one-third of net volume was lost in some stands. The defoliation trend-ratio of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haag, Bliss
The effects of three types of surface disturbance (winter road, fire, and oil spill) on the radiant energy budget of upland low shrub-heath tundra were investigated. All disturbances to vegetation or the soil surface resulted in an albedo reduction, which led to a direct…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gill
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bulmer
(1) The main features of the ten-year cycle are the regularity of the period and the irregularity of the amplitude of the oscillations; these features are obvious in data on the lynx cycle, and in the correlogram and periodogram calculated from the data. (2) A statistical model…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bishop, Rausch
Moose population status, trends in productivity, survival and abundance monitored by aerial surveys and other means in four Alaskan study areas during 1950-1972 are reviewed. Moose numbers were high or increasing from 1950 to 1960 in all areas studied due to extensive and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
Information on the winter feeding behavior of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Newfoundland and the relative abundance of food available to them in winter are presented. Sight and smell were used to locate food beneath the snow. Tall shrubs showing above the snow begin to increase…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
The numbers of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in North America generally declined in the 1800s and early 1900s. Four hypotheses are discussed relative to this decline: (I) numbers decreased because of a shortage of lichen supplies caused by the destruction of lichen pastures by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Kemperman
A severe infestation of spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby.) in a white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss)-paper birch (Betula papyrifera var.) stand caused 64.6 percent mortality of spruce 5 inches d.b.h. and larger where the infestation was completed. Survival of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Duvvuri
From the Introduction:'The technique selected for measuring the pyrolysis energy involved the use of the Perkin-Elmer DSC-2 Differential Scanning Calorimeter and TS-1 Thermogravimetric Balane. The TGS-1 also used a Cahn Time Derivative Computer to provide the rate of weight loss…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daubenmire
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morrison
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Russell, Fraser, Watson, Parsons
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaeffer
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... '...[B]efore discussing these four questions in more detail let me further show that forest fires are of a very ancient lineage and that their particulates have been a part of the natural atmosphere for milleniums. ....Now to the questions:1. Are the carbon…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pan, Chen, Birdsey, McCullough, He, Deng
Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fan, Neff, Harden, Zhang, Veldhuis, Czimczik, Winston, O'Donnell
Soil water content strongly affects permafrost dynamics by changing the soil thermal properties. However, the movement of liquid water, which plays an important role in the heat transport of temperate soils, has been under-represented in boreal studies. Two different heat…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Ottmar
This report describes the sample collection and processing for U.S. Geological Survey efforts at FROSTFIRE, an experimental burn that occurred in Alaska in 1999. Data regarding carbon, water, and energy dynamics pre-fire, during, and post-fire were obtained in this landscape-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Donnell, Harden, McGuire, Romanovsky
In the boreal region, soil organic carbon (OC) dynamics are strongly governed by the interaction between wildfire and permafrost. Using a combination of field measurements, numerical modeling of soil thermal dynamics, and mass-balance modeling of OC dynamics, we tested the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Donahue, Benscoter
For millennia, peatlands have served as an important sink for atmospheric CO2 and today represent a large soil carbon reservoir. While recent land use and wildfires have reduced carbon sequestration in tropical peatlands, the influence of disturbance on boreal peatlands is…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rocha, Shaver
Burned landscapes present several challenges to quantifying landscape carbon balance. Fire scars are composed of a mosaic of patches that differ in burn severity, which may influence postfire carbon budgets through damage to vegetation and carbon stocks. We deployed three eddy…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS