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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hennon, Mask, Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1993. All of Alaska experienced the driest summer in almost 75 years. Spruce bark beetle now is infesting in excess of 700,000 acres. Hardwood defoliator activity has decreased from…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon
Decline and mortality of yellow-cedar is the most spectacular forest problem in southeast Alaska. Yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), sometimes called Alaska-cedar, is the principal victim in this decline. Other tree species are largely unaffected. Yellow-cedar has…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a subsystem of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, which also includes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FBP System provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate,…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Mann
Fire history in a forested, 550 ha second-order basin (basin P6) of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska, was reconstructed from 21 replicated fire scars on black spruce trees and age structures of fire post-fire stands of black spruce and paper…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colla, Southwick
Burning has been a traditional component of land clearing operations to eliminate unwanted debris from fields. Burning under the proper conditions can be a cost efficient method of debris removal, and provides nutrient release into the soil. Burning, however, carries with it the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Lee
The Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS) is a fire management tool which integrates fire weather, forest inventory, and suppression resources to provide an overall picture of the current fire situation. Using the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating (CFFDRS)…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieffers, Macdonald, Hogg
Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beauv. is a widely distributed rhizomatous grass that can seriously inhibit growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings in the boreal forests of North America. We review the dynamics of this grass during four successional…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This report presents impressions and opinions on the current large and rapidly increasing spruce beetle infestation in south-central Alaska.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A spatial model of long-term forest fire dynamics and its applications to forests in western Siberia
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Brubaker
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shugart, Leemans, Bonan
The boreal forests of the world, geographically situated to the south of the Arctic and generally north of latitude 50 degrees, are considered to be one of the earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems in terms of their potential for interaction with other global scale…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lange
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forests fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the casual connection between the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Reynolds, Dean, Miller
Satellite imagery is a valuable tool for environmental monitoring of natural and man-made events. Analysis of imagery within a few hours is vital if these data are to be used to respond to rapidly changing conditions. Since April of 1982 Landsat imagery from the Quick-Look…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette
Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various disturbance regimes operating at a different spatial and temporal scales (Loucks 1970; White 1979; Bormann & Likens 1979b; Delcourt, Delcourt & Webb 1983). The development of temperate…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1991. Spruce bark beetle populations increased for the third consecutive year. 375,000 acres were impacted in 1991. Hardwood defoliator activity increased for the second year and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holling
[Intro first paragraph] Human activities are increasingly affecting the relation between the biota and the physical environment. That has long been true of resource developments that have transformed vegetation on a regional scale. Now, however, the scale of human influence has…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, Yakushkin, Pospelova
Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) introduced to formerly occupied areas in northern Alaska (70 degrees N) in 1969 and 1970, and the Taimyr Peninsula (75 degrees N) in 1974 and 1975 increased in number (exceeding 20 %/year in the early years following their establishment), and have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell, Christensen
Initial observations on effects of wildfires in black spruce [Picea mariana] forests in Alaska on radar backscatter are presented. Airborne and spaceborne SAR imagery are utilized to illustrate two distinct fire signatures. A theory is presented to explain these differences.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES