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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Wildland Fire Detection from Space: Theory and Application

Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Epiphytic lichens and bryophytes on Populus tremuloides along a chronosequence in the southwestern boreal forest of Quebec, Canada

Boudreault, Gauthier, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paleoecology and its application to fire and vegetation management in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

Hallett, Walker
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence

Gan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning emissions: a review of models using remote-sensing data

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire return rates on traversability of lodgepole pine forests for mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and the use of patch metrics to estimate traversability

Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is an unprecedented dothistroma needle blight epidemic related to climate change?

Woods, Coates, Hamann
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine forest age class dynamics and susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack

Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Twentieth century fire patterns in the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex New Mexico and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Idaho/Montana

Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of conifer and broad-leaved trees and shrubs to wildfire and clearcut logging in the boreal forests of central labrador

Simon, Schwab
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The adaptive capacity of forest management to changing fire regimes in the boreal forest of Quebec

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands, U.S.A

Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Twentieth-century fire patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico

Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Twentieth century fire patterns were analyzed for two large, disparate wilderness areas in the Rocky Mountains. Spatial and temporal patterns of fires were represented as GIS-based digital fire atlases compiled from archival Forest Service data. We find that spatial and temporal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire effects on animal communities [Chapter 5]

Huff, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An empirical examination of optimal rotations in a multiple-use forest in the presence of fire risk

Englin, Boxall, Hauer
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation of historical and current fire regimes in central Saskatchewan for annual allowable cut determination

Li, Barclay, Lui, Campbell, Carlson
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The late-Holocene paleohydrology of Pine Lake, Alberta: a multiproxy investigation

Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of mammals to forest fire and timber harvest in the North American boreal forest

Fisher, Wilkinson
1. This paper reviews and compares the effects of forest fire and timber harvest on mammalian abundance and diversity, throughout successional time in the boreal forest of North America. 2. Temporal trends in mammal abundance and diversity are generally similar for both…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The interplay between climate change, forests, and disturbances

Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconstruction of natural fire regimes through ecological modeling

Li
To reconstruct a natural fire regime it is necessary to estimate the historical fire cycle when human influence was less evident. This can be accomplished through the construction of a fire-origin map. The dynamic fire regime is a result of interactions among forest ecosystem…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reading between the lines

Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in northern ecosystems [Chapter 3]

Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Introduction and fire regimes

Brown
At the request of public and private wildland fire managers who recognized a need to assimilate current fire effects knowledge, we produced this state-of-the-art integrated series of documents relevant to management of ecosystems. The series covers our technical understanding of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Area burned reconstruction and measurement: a comparison of methods

Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS