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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Toward meaningful snag-management guidelines for postfire salvage logging in North American conifer forests

Hutto
The bird species in western North America that are most restricted to, and therefore most dependent on, severely burned conifer forests during the first years following a fire event depend heavily on the abundant standing snags for perch sites, nest sites, and food resources.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconciling salvage logging of boreal forests with a natural-disturbance management model

Schmiegelow, Stepnisky, Stambaugh, Koivula
In North American boreal forests, wildfire is the dominant agent of natural disturbance. A natural disturbance model has therefore been promoted as an ecologically based approach to forest harvesting in these systems. Given accelerating resource demands, fire competes with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Salvage logging, ecosystem processes, and biodiversity conservation

Lindenmayer, Noss
We summarize the documented and potential impacts of salvage logging -- a form of logging that removes trees and other biological material from sites after natural disturbance. Such operations may reduce or eliminate biological legacies, modify rare postdisturbance habitats,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Letdowns, wake-up calls, and constructed preferences: people's responses to fuel and wildfire risks

Arvai, Gregory, Ohlson, Blackwell, Gray
This article presents results from three studies, which seek to develop a better understanding of some of the difficulties faced by forest managers in making wildfire risk management decisions. Study I showed that both the experts and the public tend to emphasize uncontrollable…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Logging-induced change (1930-2002) of a preindustrial landscape at the northern range limit of northern hardwoods, eastern Canada

Boucher, Arseneault, Sirois
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Suillus tomentosus tuberculate ectomycorrhizal abundance and distribution in Pinus contorta woody debris

Paul, Chapman, Chanway
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influence of active charcoal on the primary growth of jack pine seedlings

Naydenov, Tremblay, Bergeron, Goudiaby
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Scheduling fire-fighting tasks using the concept of ''deteriorating jobs''

Rachaniotis, Pappis
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Laboratory fire spread analysis using visual and infrared images

Martínez-de Dios, André, Goncalves, Arrue, Ollero, Viegas
This paper presents an experimental method using computer-based image processing techniques of visual and infrared movies of a propagating fire front, taken from one or more cameras, to supply the time evolutions of the fire front shape and position, flame inclination angle,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recommendations for integrating restoration ecology and conservation biology in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern United States

Noss, Beier, Covington, Grumbine, Lindenmayer, Prather, Schmiegelow, Sisk, Vosick
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning and fires in the Northwest Territories and responses to future climate change

Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart, Logan, Nguyen
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Short-term impact of disturbance on genetic diversity and structure of Indonesian populations of the butterfly Drupadia theda in East Kalimantan

Fauvelot, Cleary, Menken
We investigated the short-term impact of disturbance on genetic diversity and structure of the tropical butterfly Drupadia theda Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Populations were sampled from five landscapes in East Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesia) which were differentially…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Structure and function of wildfire and mountain pine beetle forest boundaries

McIntire, Fortin
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire, timber salvage, and the economics of expediency

Prestemon, Wear, Stewart, Holmes
Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the volume reductions forced by legal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulations of clonal species genotypic diversity - trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) as a case study

Namroud, Leduc, Tremblay, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evaluation of the GEM-AQ air quality model during the Quebec smoke event of 2002: analysis of extensive and intensive optical disparities

O'Neill, Campanelli, Lupu, Thulasiraman, Reid, Aube, Neary, Kaminski, McConnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Ponderosa pine snag densities following multiple fires in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico

Holden, Morgan, Rollins, Wright
Fires create and consume snags (standing dead trees), an important structural and ecological component of ponderosa pine forests. The effects of repeated fires on snag densities in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern USA have not been studied. Line intercept sampling was…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

All-risk response: a qualitative study of the capacity of the wildland fire service

Donahue
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Science, technology, and human factors in fire danger rating: the Canadian experience

Taylor, Alexander
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting the ignition of crown fuels above a spreading surface fire. Part II: model evaluation

Cruz, Butler, Alexander
A crown fuel ignition model (CFIM) describing the temperature rise and subsequent ignition of the lower portion of tree crowns above a spreading surface fire was evaluated through a sensitivity analysis, comparison against other models, and testing against experimental fire data…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting the ignition of crown fuels above a spreading surface fire. Part I: model idealization

Cruz, Butler, Alexander, Forthofer, Wakimoto
A model was developed to predict the ignition of forest crown fuels above a surface fire based on heat transfer theory. The crown fuel ignition model (hereafter referred to as CFIM) is based on first principles, integrating: (i) the characteristics of the energy source as…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting ground fire ignition potential in aspen communities

Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park. Prescribed fire use is a tool available to modify aspen forests, yet clearly understanding its potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seed dispersal in fens

Middleton, van Diggelen, Jensen
Question: How does seed dispersal reduce fen isolation and contribute to biodiversity? Location: European and North American fens. Methods: This paper reviews the literature on seed dispersal to fens. Results: Landscape fragmentation may reduce dispersal opportunities thereby…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sustainable management of insect herbivores in grassland ecosystems: new perspectives in grasshopper control

Branson, Joern, Sword
Grasshoppers are insect herbivores common to grassland ecosystems worldwide. They comprise important components of biodiversity, contribute significantly to grassland function, and periodically exhibit both local and large-scale outbreaks. Because of grasshoppers' potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire as a hydrological and geomorphological agent

Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on hydrological and geomorphological…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS