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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Gabriel, Tande
Emphasis is now shifting from statewide forest fire control by one organization to regional fire management by a variety of land owners with varying management goals. This change is accompanied by a growing interest in fire history and a need for statistical data that can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Foote
One hundred thirty forests stands ranging in age from 1 month postfire to 200 years were sampled and described by successional series (white spruce and black spruce) and by developmental stage (newly burned, moss-herb, tall shrub-sapling, dense tree, hardwood, and spruce).…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barney
With the adoption of the National Fire Danger Rating System in Alaska, the entire State now has a common method of rating forest fire danger for all proctection agencies. Uniformity such as this was one of the primary reasons for the development of a national system. Compared…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Provides FWI system DC and moisture content relations for several fuel types. Also lays out fuel moisture sampling methodology and a spring code start-up methodology.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Janz, Quintilio
A large region of central and western Canada experienced a particularly severe forest fire season during 1980 in terms of the number of fire starts, area burned, and suppression expenditures. In Alberta, most of the fire occurred during April and May in the northern half of the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
Fire danger conditions in the forested regions of the prairie provinces and Northwest Territories are monitored by a network of about 350 fire weather stations. Meteorological drought or cumulative dryness greatly aggravates the problems experienced in forest fire containment…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahti, Hepburn
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Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Dube
Boreal forests are fire-dependent systems that would lose their vigour and faunal and floral diversity in the absence of fire. The objectives of natural area preservation imply maintaining the original character of the land and perpetuation of those plant and animal communities…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Discontinuous permafrost occurs widely in the boreal forest, while throughout the tundra region permafrost is continuous and may be hundreds of metres deep. Until recent years few investigations have been conducted on the effects of fire on the perennially frozen ground in…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Stocks
Wildfires have been and currently are an important factor in the northern ecosystems of all circumpolar countries. Historical accounts of fires are general and often provide few quantitative data; therefore, we must rely on more recent data from the fire suppression period to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein, MacLean
A book based on a conference of the same name held 22-24 October, 1979 at the University of New Brunswick. There are 15 chapters, including an introduction by the editors. The remaining 14 chapters are divided into 5 sections: Past and present fire frequencies; Physical effects…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chandler, Cheney, Thomas, Trabaud, Williams
This first volume is a comprehensive reference on the behavior of forest fires, the factors affecting that behavior, and the effects of fires on forest ecosystems. Discusses how to organize the control and use of forest fires in land management. Complex concepts and mathematics…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hefner
The forest resources of this country must be protected from wildfire. Protection does not eliminate fire but does reduce loss from fire. In recent years, more acres have been burned on the unprotected 3 percent of forest land than on the 97 percent under organized fire…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greene
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunting
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002] The nature and extent of fire impact on boreal forest humus profiles is described. Recolonisation by moss, lichen and higher plants on sites of various age provide varied litters to supplement surviving humified material. New humus…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Argyle
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
Throughout the boreal circumpolar North almost all terrestrial ecosystems exhibit soil organic matter accumulation, with increased accumulation at higher soil moisture levels. Fire frequencies in organic terrain are very low compared with drier ecosystems such as those dominated…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein, MacLean
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Fire in black spruce ecosystem of northern Canada and Alaska is characterized by large and frequent fires that usually kill the overstory trees and most, if not all, of the vegetation above ground. Most species within the black spruce ecosystem show adaptations to fire, and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
This chapter begins with a review of northern fuels and fire behaviour, and stresses the general uniformity of all spreading fires in vegetation, the two limiting criteria being the rate of forward heat transfer and fuel quality. Five classes of fire and examples are listed with…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tolonen
Knowledge of the post-glacial fire history assists in understanding ecological questions such as succession and stability of the vegetation mosaic, the dependence of flora on fire, and ecological consequences of fires to lakes and bogs. This information is incorporated in peat…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rowe
Plants are assumed to adapt to fire regime. The recurrence intervals and spatial patterns of fires in the boreal forest, plus the ubiquitousness of most plants, render it unlikely that species-wide adaptations to burning regimes of particular sizes, timings, and intensities can…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
MacLean, Woodley, Weber, Wein
Patterns of undisturbed nutrient cycling in northern ecosystems and the impact of fire on nutrient cycling are reviewed and discussed. The various effects of fire on ecosystem nutrient cycling may be broadly subdivided into (1) nutrient redistribution during fire, and (2)…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS