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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author describes a stochastic model of forest stand rotation which can be used to determine the optimal planned rotation interval for flammable forest stands. The model can also be used to estimate the value of fire management activities in terms of the potential enhanced…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
The mathematical fire model can be effectively used to predict fire behavior in wildland fuels. In 131 experimental fires, nearly half of the observations were within 25 percent of over- or underprediction, and 95 percent of the differences between predicted and observed values…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benner, Urone
In this experimental study we observed how the homogeneous nucleation tendency changed with time as pine needle combustion products were stored in the dark or irradiated. The nucleation tendency decreased during dark storage and then increased and passed through a maximum when…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
Threads of continuity ran through this excellent workshop. The workshop was characterized by an abiding interest in a common terminology, concern about scale (how large, or small, an area can be represented), the resolution of data required to make effective management decisions…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
A bibliography on forest and rangeland fire history containing 307 references was completed during the winter of 1979 and released in the spring of 1980 (Alexander 1979). Nearly five hundred copies have been issued to date. I have casually kept track of new and overlooked…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moir
Southwestern canyon woodlands, for purposes of this paper, are vegetation types along canyon bottoms for mostly third and fourth order drainages whose streams may be permanent or intermittent. These include habitat types within blue spruce, white fir, ponderosa pine, narrowleaf…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Steele
Repeated observations of permanent plots and transects are used to evaluate adaptive responses of individual species and communities of perennial plants following fires that occurred in 1974. Positive adaptations are common, but are weakly developed. Recovery is taking place,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gilbert, Nias
A teleprinter-type terminal, located in the six Regional offices of the Ministry of Forests, accesses a central computer to allow daily fire weather data to be stored and analyze within a time-frame suitable for making fire management decisions. The data is organized in a manner…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zackrisson, Nilsson, Wardle
Wildfire is a major disturbance factor in boreal forests where it is important in rejuvenating soil properties and encouraging tree regeneration and growth. However, the mechanisms behind these effects are poorly understood and little is known as to the ecological effects of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
Changes in foliar chemistry resulting from changes in forest-floor and mineral-soil moisture availability, forest-floor microbial energy supply, and nitrogen availability were investigated across the successional sequences in both upland and floodplain landscape positions. Three…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff, Lidicker
This study makes important contributions 10 our understanding of the life history and population dynamics or a little-known yet widespread member of the taiga community. A live trapping grid plus supplemental snaptrapping were used for 3 years. Less intensive efforts covered 3…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
White, Trudell
Habitat preference by caribou (Rangifer tarandus grantii Allen.) and forage selection and consumption by tame reindeer (R. t. tarandus L.) were studied near Atkasook, Alaska, for 3 yr. Small groups of caribou were present in both winter and summer. Winter habitat use was…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Eighty black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) trees from four pulpwood stands in north central Ontario were sampled to determine crown fuel weights. Crown fuel components, both living and dead, were separated into size classes precise enough for use in forest fire behavior…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rolley, Keith
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Year: 1980
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
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
Oosenbrug, Theberge
The altitudinal movements, preferred topography and plant communities of 150 to 200 woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were recorded for two summers. Nine subalpine or alpine tundra communities constituting their major summer range were quantitatively described.…
Year: 1980
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
Moore
An analysis of samples collected in 1976 from 2 sites in mature open spruce/lichen woodland in Quebec, unburned for 105 and 138 yr, and dominated by Picea glauca, P. mariana, Ledum groenlandicum and Betula glandulosa; and from 3 regenerating sites, burned 1, 5 and 45 yr…
Year: 1980
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