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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Werner
Deteriorating forest health is causing unprecedented damage to the boreal forests of Alaska. Forest health is a complex issue that must be adressed within the context of ecosystem management and the goal of managing ecosystems for long-term productivity and maintaining…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Dyrness
State factor controls of soil and forest development were examined in floodplain primary and upland secondary successional ecosystems along the Tanana River in interior Alaska. Topography is the principal difference in state factor control of structure and function of these…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Starfield, Chapin
One of the greatest challenges in global-change research is to predict the future distribution of vegetation. Most models of vegetation change predict either the response of a patch of present vegetation to climatic change or the future equilibrium distribution of vegetation…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz and Sitka spruce forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification and abductive inference to develop decision models for classifying spruce beetle hazard. Model development and validation data sets contained 286 and 88…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Persson
Fire blight was for the first time observed in a pear orchard in southern Sweden in 1986. Since 1989 the disease has spread along the south and west coast with the most frequent number of new outbreaks in 1990. Besides pear, hawthorn, apple, Sorbus aria and Cotoneaster…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik, Magoun
During 1991-94 we tested whether martens (Martens americana) selectively used postfire seres in the Alaskan taiga and whether selection could be explained by differences in marten hunting behavior, habitat, prey abundance, or demography. Forest seral stages included early-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nash, Johnson
The coupling of synoptic scale weather conditions with local scale weather and fuel conditions was examined for 2551 fires and 1,537,624 lightning strikes for the May-August fire seasons in 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The probability of lightning fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earle, Brubaker, Anderson
The charcoal content of surface and late-Quaternary lake sediments in boreal forests of northcentral Alaska was investigated using an image-analysis procedure that tallied and measured the area of charcoal particles in size classes. Modern sediments were from mud-water…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
Canada's current method of fire danger assessment is known as the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which took shape in the late 1960s when the Candian Forest Service (CFS) envisioned a modular design for a national fire danger rating system. The CFFDRS…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Meeker
The opportunity exists in most forest ecosystems of North America to use prescribed fire to manipulate forest insect pests and associated organisms, including bark beetles. The interactions among fire, forests, and insects are many, complex, and poorly understood.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharbaugh
From section titled 'Why are we here?': 'The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for Copper River Basin natural resource managers and researchers, as well as the public, to learn more about the ecology of spruce beetles and the forests they inhabit. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, England
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, White
From background: 'The status of caribou herds in Alaska has recently become a focus of attention for subsistence and sport hunters, management agencies, biologists, and the general public. This is a result of the pronounced decline in recent years of the Nelchina, Fortymile,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From introduction: 'This flood hazard analyses of the Delta Study Area was requested by the State Division of Lands, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the Delta Junction Area Land-Use Planning Team. The request was the result of joint efforts between…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Sherman
The objectives of this study were to develop estimates of smoke emissions from wild and prescribed fires in B.C. forests during 1981-90, and to compare these with amounts that occurred before European settlement. The prescribed fires included in this study were carried out under…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
The distribution of fruticose lichens in the upper Kobuk River valley is strongly influenced by soil conditions and disturbance; lichen cover is highest where disturbance is infrequent and poor soil reduce competition by vascular plants. Lichen cover is low on flooded soils as a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter
From introduction: 'Fire A482 was located on the Chitanana River, approximately 18 miles south of Tanana, Alaska. The fire started on approximately June 17, 1996. Between June 28 and July 11 it was subject of a fire monitoring program which involved aerial mapping of the fire…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shank, Wilkinson, Penner
The results of analyses of rumen contents from 101 Peary caribou (Rangifer tanadus pearyi J. A. Allen 1902) collected on Banks Island are presented. Peary caribou on Banks Island were found to be versatile, broad spectrum grazers specializing on upland monocots, to ingest few…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES