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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Greene, Shilling, Compton
[First paragraph] Prescribed fire is coming to be recognized as a quantitative factor in natural-resource research, but our inability to control environmental and fire-related variables in natural fires has been a major impediment to interpreting research data. To help remove…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Van Cleve
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whelan
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Wein
A Typha marsh community was subjected to draining and seasonal burning treatments to control the growth of emergent aquatics. Treatments resulted in an increase in total number of species after 3 years. Cover and frequency of Aster novi-belgii, Lycopus uniflorus, Epilobium…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tisdale, Hironaka
The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of literature on the vegetation of the sagebrush region of North America. Since the objective is to document the current status of knowledge of sagebrush vegetation, emphasis has been placed on thorough coverage of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This report contains an annotated bibliography of the effects of fire, logging, grazing, and spraying on small mammals and their predators. Each citation lists keywords. A brief summary of the general effects of fire on some of the more common small mammals in western coniferous…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Niering
Prescribed burning is extensively used in wildlife, forest, and range management, and in maintaining biotic diversity. Burning tends to increase food and/or favourable habitat conditions for many upland game and waterfowl species. Prescribed burning in forest management is used…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Harvey
The mixedwood forest is defined as a successional mosaic of stratified mixed stands of disturbance (mainly wildfire) origin. The effect of long-term exclusion of fire is discussed. A plea is made for a 'let-burn' policy in parks and improved silviculture for maintaining the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada, Norum
Broadcast burning following harvesting of flood plain sites in Alaska substantially decreased residual organic material and increased exposed mineral soil. Two forest types were studied: white spruce/alder/feathermoss and white spruce/alder/lingenberry/feathermoss. The latter…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The negative exponential and Wiebull distributions were used to estimate stand survivorship curves for forested sites in the Porcupine River drainage of interior Alaska. The survivorship curve of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss sites was best described by a Wiebull function, while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
1. In central Alaska, Taiga Voles live in communal groups of five to ten individuals (mean = 7.1) for eight months of the year. During this winter period, they share a common stored food cache. 2. Evidence from both field monitoring of nest temperatures and laboratory studies…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hervieux
Rumen samples from 104 barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) collected in March 1980 and 1981 at 18 sites on the winter range in south-central Northwest Territories (NWT) and northern Saskatchewan were examined microscopically for relative occurrence of plant…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Density dependent effects of food limitation on productivity have been documented for >12 species of large ungulates. In wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) a decrease in recruitment rate and adult female body size (although not in adult survival rate) develops in response to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shasby, Carneggie
During the past 5 years, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Field Office in Anchorage, Alaska has worked cooperatively with Federal and State resource management agencies to produce land-cover and terrain maps for 245…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
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