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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Application and status of the FARSITE fire area simulator

Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vegetative recovery following the 1988 Waring Mountains Fire in Northwest Alaska, 1989-1998

Foote
The Waring Mountains Wildfire of 1988 burned 209,366 acres (84,727 ha) of the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in NW Alaska, transecting the migration route of the Western Arctic Caribou herd.  This study was undertaken to describe and follow the response of the vegetation after…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Influence of smoke exposure on soil enzyme activities and nitrification

Li, Fredrickson, Ligotke, Van Voris, Rogers
Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of rabbit grazing and fire on a subalpine environment II. Tree vegetation

Wimbush, Forrester
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Age structure analysis of a virgin white pine, Pinus strobus, population

Holla, Knowles
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of dominant shrubs, fire, and time since fire on soil seed banks in mixed chaparral

Zammit, Zedler
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Standards of naturalness: The national parks management challenge

Bonnicksen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canada Bonito, New Mexico

Mohlenbrock
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bryogeography and the bryophytic characterization of biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia, Canada

Schofield
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modifications dans le systeme photosynthetique de repousses apparaissant apres feu de deux especes ligneuses dominantes des garrigues mediterraneennes

Trabaud, Methy
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dynamics of resprouting in the lignotuberous shrub banksia oblongifolia

Zammit
The resprouting response of different sized Banksia oblongifolia lignotubers (genets) was followed in two field experiments. In thefirst, the density and speed of resprouting, and the growth in length of the leading shoot from each lignotuber in response to fire and to the time…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconstructing fire behaviour and effects in a subalpine forest

Fryer, Johnson
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Population ecology and conservation of tortoises: the effects of disturbance

Hailey, Wright, Steer
Population characteristics of sympatric Testudo hermanni and T graeca were compared at four sites in northern Greece; Alyki, Epanomi, Keramoti and Lagos. These had different habitats and levels of human disturbance. The density of tortoises larger than 10cm was similar at all…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Regrowth of forest understory species following seasonal burning

Flinn, Wein
Small experimental plots in mixed-wood stands of the Acadian Forest were burned in the spring, summer, and autumn to obtain an estimate of the regrowth potential of common forest understory species. The number of stems was measured before burning and then monthly for 5 months…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest visual quality management and research

Hull
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aspen, fire and wildlife

Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire study rises to new heights

Hawkes
From the text ... 'In the past, fire suppression was seen as a standard method for dealing with forest fires. Today, foresters view fire as an essential instrument of forest regeneration, contributing to a greater diversity of flora and fauna. 'Fire plays a natural role and we'…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Identification of deforestation hot spot areas in the humid tropics

[no description entered]
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influence of ecological conditions on Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) germinant survival and initial seedling growth in south-central British Columbia

Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Assessment of 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia: national coordination

Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Importance of fire in alvar ecosystems--Evidence from the burnt lands, eastern Ontario

Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The chaparral vegetation in Mexico under non-Mediterranean climate: the convergence and Madrean-Tethyan hypotheses reconsidered

Valiente-Banuet, Flores-Hernández, Verdu, Dávila
A comparative study between an unburned evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation located in south-central Mexico under a wet-summer climate, with mediterranean regions was conducted in order to re-analyze vegetation and plant characters claimed to converge under mediterranean…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Utility of remnant patches of old-growth forest to neotropical migratory birds in north-central British Columbia [abstract]

Parker, Kessler
Abstract only...'We have conducted a three-year investigation of the habitat relationships of forest birds and mammals that inhabit the Sub-boreal Spruce Plateau (SBSmk1) of central British Columbia. Our study was designed to test assumptions and practices of British Columbia's…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A burning of Yellowstone--another perspective (letter to the editor)

Wattenberg
From the text...'Independent observers who know the status of the park today say that the rosy picture presented by the National Park Service and by ecologists quoted in this article is not accurate.'
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation changes caused by recent fires in the northern boreal forest of eastern Canada

Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS