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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Laberge, Payette, Pitre
Black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant tree species across the North American boreal forest. In the northernmost parts of its natural range, the species thrives in the form of scattered or aggregated stunted clones (krummholz) in winter-exposed subarctic and arctic sites.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kneeshaw
Boreal forest dynamics have been long characterized as being controlled by large-scale fire regimes. When fire cycles are short, trees are killed and recruited primarily due to these events. However, where fire cycles exceed the longevity of the trees, gap dynamics will shape…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krebs, Boutin, Boonstra
In this book we describe the Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project which operated from 1986 to 1996 in the southwestern Yukon. We begin by describing the area and its physical setting, and then describe the background of the project and the wisdom that had accumulated to 1986…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Miyanishi
From preface: 'Since the 1950s, the body of literature on fire behavior has been growing in journals of engineering, geophysics, meteorology, etc. Foresters and ecologists have not used much of this literature on the physical aspects of fire behavior to understand fire effects…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gagnon
In the Canadian Northeast (Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland), black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant species of tree in the boreal zone, where it forms large and often monospecific natural virgin stands. This spruce is present only in North America. The integration of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennis, Miles
A consequence of past fire management practices in U. S. Forests is the excessive accumulation of fuel. In order to avoid severe and catastrophic fires, resource managers employ a number of treatments to diminish fuel loads. Alternative treatments include prescribed burns and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Awada
We studied white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) population dynamics in the mixedwood section of boreal forest in Saskatchewan, Canada, using 35 stands along a chronosequence ranging from less than one year to more than 200 years after fire. We determined the spatial pattern…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Reinhardt
Wildland firefighting presents many hazards to fireline workers, including inhalation exposure to smoke (Sharkey 1998; Reinhardt and Ottmar 1997; Sharkey 1997). Many experienced fireline personnel consider this to be only an inconvenience, occasionally causing acute cases of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoff, Ferguson, McDonald, Keane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Johnson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenton
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thonicke, Venevsky, Sitch, Cramer
Disturbances from fire, wind-throw, insects and other herbivores are, besides climate, CO2, and soils, critical factors for composition, structure and dynamics of most vegetation. To simulate the influence of fire on the dynamic equilibrium, as well as on potential change, of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ponomarenko, Anderson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhuang, McGuire, Harden, O'Neill, Romonanvsky, Yarie
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting are thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Fyles, Paré, Nguyen-Xuan
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moritsuka, Yanai, Kosaki
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Vila, Tinoco, Almendros, Martin
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lardner, Wright, Cohen, Curry, MacFarlane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, Bridge
The explanation often given for the large wildfires that have burned each year in North America in the last two decades is that fire suppression after the 1950s produced a buildup of fuel and changed the landscape-age mosaic (e.g., Gayton 1998; Smalley et al. 2000), creating…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given level of treatment that has the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arseneault
Although behaviour of stand-replacing wildfire has significant impacts on initial tree regeneration in the fire-prone boreal landscape, the unknown behaviour of most past wildfires has precluded any evaluation of these impacts on the progressive development of late-successional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Bergeron, Longpre
Height growth of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stands originating from three different disturbance types (fire, clearcut, and tree-fall gap) was compared on two different deposits (glacial till and lacustrine clay) in the Abitibi region in northwestern Quebec…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS