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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Patterson, Dennis
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oliver, Van Cleve
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oliver
Large-scale, man-created or natural disturbances play a major role in determining forest structure and species composition in many areas of North America and probably other temperate and tropical forests. Studies suggest a single group of species is not predestined to inhabit an…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Alemdag, Horton
Ovendry mass of single tress of trembling aspen, largetooth aspen, and white birch in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence and Boreal forest regions in Ontario was studied in relation to stem dimensions. Mass equations for tree components based on diameter at breast height outside…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Swanson
Fire, geomorphic processes, and landforms interact to determine natural patterns of ecosystems over landscapes. Fire alters vegetation and soil properties which change soil and sediment movement through watersheds. Landforms affect fire behavior and form firebreaks which…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Olson
A theory of ecosystem succession relates the continuum of fire frequency and intensities to mean annual carbon burning in major ecosystems of the world. Low fire frequency and release of C are contrasted with combinations of (1) low frequency, high release, (2) high frequency…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Holling
Forest fire systems are compared to the balsam/spruce budworm system. Management of both has been successful in the short term in reducing the probability of fire or preventing sudden and extensive mortality of balsam. But both have resulted in conditions highly vulnerable to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Werner, Furniss, Yarger, Ward
Traps baited with Seudenol + a-pinene caught 87 percent more eastern larch beetles, Dendroctonus simplex LeConte, than did tamarack logs infested with females. Male beetles responded to the synthetic attractant in greater numbers than females. Male beetles were not attracted to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stocks, Barney
Forest fire statistical records to 1979 are given for Newfoundland (from 1949), Quebec (1924), Ontario (1917), Manitoba (1918), Saskatchewan (1918), Alberta (1918), Northwest Territories (1946), Yukon (1950), Alaska (1940), Sweden (1946) and Finland (1952). Figures for fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lotan, Alexander, Arno, French, Langdon, Loomis, Norum, Rothermel, Schmidt, van Wagtendonk
The coniferous forests of the 6 major areas of the USA (North Pacific maritime forests; Forests of the Rocky Mountain west; Sierra coniferous forests; Northern boreal forests of Alaska; Southern pine forests; and Northeastern coniferous forests) are described under the following…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hanson
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gill
Plant survival, fire-stimulated seed dispersal, fire- enhanced flowering and fire-promoted germination were the four traits examined in relation to various combinations of fire intensity, fire frequency, and season of fire occurrence (the fire regime). While fire selection can…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Eglitis
Within the infested patches totaling 1,200+ acres along the Taku River, about 1/2 of the spruce has been killed by spruce beetle. Additional mortality is likely to occur within these patches. Suppression alternatives are discussed. However, this report recommends no control…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Barney, Bevins, Bradshaw
Forest floor fuel loads, depths, and bulk densities are reported for four Interior Alaska cover types. Cover types included are upland black spruce, lowland black spruce, white spruce, and paper birch. Results indicate forest floor depths range from slightly over 2 inches to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Artsybashev
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mathewes, Heusser
Transfer functions for converting pollen frequencies to estimates of mean July temperature and mean annual precipitation were applied to fossil pollen data from a sediment core in Marion Lake. The paleotemperature curve shows low July temperatures near 14 degrees C at the base…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Adams, Robus
From introduction: In northwestern Alaska the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is attempting to cope with a unique grazing situation in which two populations of the same species, one wild (caribou) and one domestic (reindeer), complete for use of high-quality winter range. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rundel
The subject of fire as an ecological factor is an exceedingly broad and complex one. The literature on fire in nature currently numbers hundreds of papers annually and seems to be growing at an exponential rate. It is certainly impossible to compress even a small amount of the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Heinselman
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50 to 200 years. Cycles and fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Morikawa
Fire experiments were conducted in small scale compartment models under a forced or natural ventilation. Four liquid fuels of methanol, ethanol, n-hexane and benzene, which are considered to represent thermal decomposition products of polymers, were burned in the fire.…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ballard, Spraker, Taylor
During spring 1977 and 1978, 136 moose (Alces alces gigas) calves were radio-collared in the Nelchina and Susitna river basins of south central Alaska in an effort to determine causes of mortality. Thirteen calves (9.5%) died as a result of collaring activities. Of the 123…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Connell, Raison, Khanna, Woods
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS