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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Albini
In this paper a mathematical description of flow into the forest edge is proposed and used as a basis for a detailed reexamination of experimental results from the scale model studies of Kawatania and Sadeh (1971). It is the intention here to use the experimental data to guide…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned patches. Within 5 years…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doerksen
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai, Pettapiece
Earth hummocks occur on vast areas of perennially frozen mineral soils in the western Canadian subarctic regions. Different vegetation grows on different parts of the hummocks. The tops of the hummocks are vegetated by plants that have no roots (lichens, mosses) or by short-…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The structure and function of taiga ecosystems over a 3,600,000 ha area of northeastern interior Alaska was shown to be consistent with a hypothesis relating vegetative structure and dynamics to site nutrient status and soil temperature. Ordination of modal community…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
A total of 58 trees was sampled from eight stands across a large area of interior Alaska. Regression equations were developed to estimate standing aboveground biomass for 22 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands. Aboveground standing biomass of white spruce in mature…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yakovlev
In 1971-80, extensive and detailed investigations were made in the Kostroma region of the USSR on various primary forest types, viz. spruce forests of the compositum, oxalidosum, myrtillosum and riparian types; pine forests of the vacciniosum, cladinosum, and sphagnosum types;…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands in the Resurrection Creek watershed in south-central Alaska were infested by spruce bettles, Dendroctonus rugipennis Kirby, between 1974 and 1975. Thirty permanent plots were established within the infested area in 1976 to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Bliss
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webber, Barney
Describes the use of the Franklin wheeled skidder instead of crawler tractors to construct firelines (to reduce damage to the soil in the tundra). The basic skidder was equipped with 2000-gal tanks to carry fire retardant, and a spreader bar to lay the retardant or water. A…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Foote
Vegetation, forest productivity, and soils of 23 forest stands in the taiga of interior Alaska are described. The stands are arranged on an environmental gradient from an aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stand on a dry, steep south-facing bluff, to open black spruce (Picea…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Cleve, Dyrness
The major portion of this special issue consists of a group of 22 related papers resulting from a multidisciplinary research project on the taiga of interior Alaska, mainly carried out at the University of Alaska and the Institure of Northern forestry (USDA Forest Service) at…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness, Viereck, Fox, Chapin, Oechel
A general account of the findings of a joint USDA Forest Service/University of Alaska research project studying taiga ecosystems, especially the black spruce type [see FA 42, 5305; 43, 3427]. Black spruce forests are the most nutrient poor and least productive forest type, with…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness
This study summarizes the effects of forest-floor disturbance on soil-solution chemistry. For comparative purposes chemical analyses are also presented of soil solution collected beneath undisturbed black spruce (Piceamariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) stands, stream water, and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness
The objective of this introductory paper is to present a brief overview of the setting in which the structure and function of a black spruce ecosystem was considered in relation to other fire affected taiga ecosystems; the organizational framework within which the research was…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
In most of their arctic and subarctic ranges reindeer, caribou and muskoxen adopt generalist foraging strategies; they consume a wide variety of plants even though they feed selectively. This paper analyses some aspects of selective feeding behavior and its possible influence on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Extensive stands of the boreal forest of Canada in the late successional stages provide a suitable habitat for some birds and for caribou but are unsuitable for many other species. Deer, moose, beaver, ruffed grouse and many other birds and mammals require the greater amounts of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pettapiece
Recent surveys in the Canadian subarctic have shown the wide distribution of cryogenic earth-hummock soils with permafrost. A study of chemical, physical, mineralogical and micromorphological features revealed quite acidic, partially unsaturated surface horizons, large amounts…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peek
This review covers 41 studies of moose food habits, including 13 from the intermountain west, 6 from Alaska, and 22 from Canada, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Maine. Only nine of these studies include information on summer food habits, only four on year-long food habits and only…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eaton, Wendler
Description not entered.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES