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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
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Neilson
Chapter 13 in the book titled, Issues in Landscape Ecology.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli
In early July of 1997, I was assigned to the Inowak Fire in southwest Alaska as a Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN). The fire started late in June in a Limited Suppression Zone southwest of McGrath, but on July 4 and 5 it made major runs toward three native villages on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Beaufait, Norum
Conventional hygrothermographs can be modified as described here to record windspeed along with temperature and relative humidity. The fire-weather record resulting from the modification has several fire management applications, as demonstrated in field use.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fact sheet on the final regional haze regulations for protection of visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Galizia, Kinney
Few studies have examined the respiratory effects of multiyear ozone exposures in human populations. We examined associations between current respiratory health status and long-term ozone exposure histories in 520 Yale College (New Haven, CT) students who never smoked.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Van Lear, Guynn
Prescribed burning is used to achieve a variety of silvicultural objectives, including controlling heavy fuel accumulation, exposing mineral soil, releasing available nutrients for seedbed preparation, and controlling certain insects, diseases, and competing vegetation (Hunter…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anonymous
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Montgomery, Cheo
The burning characteristics of several fire-retardant plants and Southern California chaparral shrubs of recognized high flammability were compared in muffle-furnance tests at 650 C. Fresh terminal growth of Atriplex lentiformis did not burn as readily as comparable material of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Grigel
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Fine-fuel moisture content tables, using dry bulb and dewpoint temperatures as entry data, have been developed for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in Alaska. Comparisons have been made which illustrate differences resulting from danger-rating calculations based…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cockerham
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nuss
This assessment estimated the total number of forestland acres on the Kenai Peninsula in high, medium and low impact status with respect to spruce beetle activity. Authors estimated the annual mortality rate to be 3%.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Sitka spruce produces twice as many needles per linear inch of twig as western hemlock. Defoliation by the black-headed budworm is more severe on hemlock than spruce because of differences in the phenological development of the hosts and in the feeding behavior of first- and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Gass, Billings
Data from a series of plots in well stocked, even-aged Picea sitchensis/Tsuga heterophylla stands 30-170 years old (that had developed after logging (a), windblow (b) or fire (c) on various freely drained soils) were used to determine a site index based on total height and age…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
From 'Assessing Crown Fire Hazard': 'Scott and Reinhardt (in preparation) developed two quantitative indices of crown fire hazard--the Torching Index and the Crowning Index --that managers can use to assess the potential for crowing by wildfires. The indices are derived from…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulze, Lloyd, Kelliher, Wirth, Rebmann, Luhker, Mund, Knohl, Milyskova, Schulze, Ziegler, Varlagin, Sogachev, Valentini, Dore, Grigoriev, Kolle, Panfyorov, Tchebakova, Vygodskaya
Published and original data were analysed to investigate carbon pools and fluxes in Siberian forests totalling 600 million ha, and European forests totalling 300 million ha. Productivity parameters assessed were Net Primary Productivity (NPP=whole plant growth), Net Ecosystem…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Price, Halliwell, Apps, Peng
Aim: To investigate effects of within-season and interannual climate variability on the behaviour of boreal forest ecosystems as simulated by the FORSKA2 patch model. Location: Eleven climate station locations distributed along a transect across the boreal zone of central Canada…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponizovsky, Chudinova, Pachepsky
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is widely used to measure the soil water contents. The effect of soil composition on TDR calibration has to be quantified to diminish the need in re-calibration of TDR. Objectives of the study were: (a) to evaluate the ability of published models…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastor, Cohen, Moen
Boreal forests are composed of a few plant species with contrasting traits with respect to ecosystem functioning and spatial patterning. Early successional deciduous species, such as birch (Betula spp.) and aspen (Populus spp.), disperse seeds widely, do not tolerate low light…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Odum
The principles of ecological succession bear importantly on the relationships between man and nature. The framework of successional theory needs to be examined as a basis for resolving man's present eviromental crisis. Most ideas pertaining to the development of ecological…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oberle
Discusses (with particular reference to conditions in Alaska) the value of occasional small fires in burning undergrowth and litter to prevent the accumulation of inflammable material and the risk of major damage, the erosion likely to be caused by using bulldozers to make fire…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neary, Klopatek, DeBano, Ffolliott
The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and microbial mediated processes. Since a key component of overall ecosystem sustainability occurs belowground,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
The quantity of dead and downed woody fuels in forests is commonly estimated using the line intersect method of sampling. Determination of the mass of wood per unit area for each size class requires values for the mean specific gravity, piece tilt angle and piece diameter. We…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niemela
Disturbances and the consequent habitat heterogeneity are natural features of the boreal forest. Natural disturbances occurring at the level of populations, communities and ecosystems (meters to kilometers and years to hundreds of years), that is, at the 'meso-scale' may provide…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lehmkuhl
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES