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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Thomas
From the Conclusion ... 'Quail enthusiasts who have pine forestland have an opportunity to improve quail habitat and improve pine growth and productivity by using imazapyr to control competitive vegetation [see Table 4 -- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement with Imazapyr]. Other game…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vavrek, Fetcher, McGraw, Shaver, Chapin, Bovard
Tundra ecosystems appear to recover slowly from disturbance, but little long-term data concerning plant diversity has been available. We examined recovery of tundra vegetation in Alaska, U.S.A., 23 yr after fire and 24 yr after bulldozing. Primary productivity, depth of thaw,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey
The Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest is situated in northwestern Quebec in the Boreal Shield Ecozone. Managed by two constituents of the Universite du Quebec, in collaboration with two forest companies, Norbord and Tembec, the Lake Duparquet Forest has a strong…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herr, Duchesne, Reader
The effects of soil organic matter, soil moisture, shading and ash on white pine (Pinus strobus L.) emergence were investigated using soil monoliths in greenhouse experiments. White pine seedling emergence increased with soil organic matter removal, and levelled with the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root density, mass, fibre content,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fortin, Payette, Marineau
Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity are mainly governed by natural disturbances such as fire. Because boreal forest communities are typically species-poor and composed predominantly of wide-ranging circumboreal species, all measurements of biodiversity using the most common…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clearwater, Nifinluri, van Gardingen
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerr, Schwilk, Bergman, Feldman
Using a two-locus diallelic population genetic model, we studied the evolution and impact of flammable traits in resprouting plants. A 'flammability locus' determines the flammable character of a plant and the frequency of alleles at this locus affects the probability that any…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohtsuka
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blomberg, Gibson, Sedinger
Estimated probability of daily nest survival is commonly used to derive cumulative nest survival for a specified nest-exposure period. For many species of birds, the presence of a parent is an important cue used by researchers to locate nests, but in some cases nest detection…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Cheng, Sun, Zhuang, Li, Liu, Lee, Tang
Avian species are sensitive to pesticides and industrial chemicals, and hence used as model species in evaluation of chemical toxicity. In present study, we assessed the toxicity of more than 663 diverse chemicals on 17 avian species. All the chemicals were classified into three…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
From the text ... 'Forest fires are a major cause of plant death and destruction, but they can also be a source of life as some dormant seeds begin to germinate in the aftermath of a raging inferno.' © 2013 redOrbit.com .
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Owley, Shaw, Thompson
Perpetual conservation easements (CEs) are popular for restricting development and land use, but their fixed terms create challenges for adaptation to climate change. The increasing pace of environmental and social change demands adaptive conservation instruments. To examine the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fox, Whitesides
Spreading fires are noisy (and potentially chaotic) systems in which transitions in dynamics are notoriously difficult to predict. As flames move through spatially heterogeneous environments, sudden shifts in temperature, wind, or topography can generate combustion instabilities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS