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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fetcher, Beatty, Mullinax, Winkler
Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dixon, Shipley, Briggs
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Densmore, Juday, Zasada
Site-preparation and regeneration methods for white spruce (Picea glauca) were investigated within the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, on 2 upland sites which had been burned in a wildfire (1983) and salvage logged (1985). One site supported white…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Radke, Coen, Middleton
A good physical understanding of the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains as elusive goal for fire researchers. Although some data exist that describe the fire spread rate and some qualitative aspects of wildfire behavior, none have revealed the very small…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boles, Verbyla
Some AVHRR fire detection studies have excluded pixels that exceeded an arbitrary scan angle. This exclusion seems to be based on the distortion of pixels at high scan angles and the well-documented effects of scan angle on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. However,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boertje
Food habits of the Denali (formerly McKinley) herd of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) were studied during 1978-80 in Denali National Park, Alaska, with emphasis on diets of adult females. Data from fecal analyses, field observations, and forage digestibilities…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bergerud, Jakimchuk, Carruthers
The demography, movement and behaviour patterns of eight caribou populations (Kaminuriak, Nelchina, Central Arctic, Fortymile, Porcupine, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Snowhetta) exposed to industrial activities or transportation corridors are reviewed. Behaviour patterns…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomass combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to over…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armstrong
The annual area burned on an 8.6 x 106 ha study area in the boreal mixedwood forest of northeastern Alberta, Canada, was characterized as a serially independent random draw from a lognormal distribution. This characterization was applied in Monte Carlo simulations, which showed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Driscoll, Arocena, Massicotte
Forest fires are known to influence nutrient cycling, particularly soil nitrogen (N), as well as plant succession in northern forest ecosystems. However, few studies have addressed the dynamics of soil N and its relationship to vegetation composition after fire in these forests…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Acea, Carballas
Microorganisms in heated (200ºC, 1 h) soil not inoculated (H) or inoculated with 0.5% of fresh soil (Hi) and amended with wheat straw (Hi+WS) or poultry manure (Hi+PM) were determined during a 3-month soil incubation. Heating completely sterilised the soil, although the normal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
The calculation of heat release rate by oxygen consumption is based on the assumption that all materials release approximately the same amount of heat per unit mass of oxygen consumed. This technique is now being employed to determine the heat release rate of materials in…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guggenheim
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We examined the long-term dynamics of upland boreal forest floors after disturbance by fire. We selected two important and contrasting upland tree species, Pinus banksiana (jack pine) and Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), in three distinct climatic zones across the boreal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Chapin, Sandberg, Roessler, Fukuda, Hinzman
Frostfire prescribed burn project overview and plan.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES