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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Seamon
The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Elson, Simon, Kneeshaw
To determine scale-specific effects of disturbance type, soil, and topography on regenerating plant species, we compared regeneration in 10- and 50-year-old clearcuts and burns in Southeastern Labrador. Data were analyzed at three scales of resolution: subplot (5 m2), plot (398…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheley, Bates
Restoring range sites dominated by western juniper is central to maintaining healthy functioning shrub-steppe ecosystems. On sites without adequate species composition to respond favorably to juniper controlled by fire, revegetation is necessary. We tested the following two…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Horn
We surveyed postfire vegetation at five sites at high elevations (> 2000 m) in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Highlands of the Cordillera Central are dominated by a single pine species, Pinus occidentalis, but plant communities are rich with endemics and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doyon, Yamasaki, Duchesneau
The Natural Range of Variability is a concept used under the ecosystem management paradigm that means understanding the disturbance-driven spatial and temporal variability of the ecological systems and mimicking them in management strategies. With this project, we developed a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin
This study provides the first assessment of carabid beetle diversity in a natural forest context that encompasses a complete black spruce (Picea mariana) natural succession. Boreal forest conservation has been based on several assumptions about forest age that only consider…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
James, Fortin, Fall, Kneeshaw, Messier
Forest age structure and its spatial arrangement are important elements of sustainable forestry because of their effects on biodiversity and timber availability. Forest management objectives that include specific forest age structure may not be easily attained due to constraints…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Insley, Lei
This paper investigates the impact of including the risk of fire in an optimal tree harvesting model at the stand level, assuming timber prices follow a mean-reverting stochastic process. The relevant partial differential equation is derived under different assumptions about…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hashidoko, Takakai, Toma, Darung, Melling, Tahara, Hatano
Using a soilless culture system mimicking tropical acidic peat soils, which contained 3mg of gellan gum and 0.5mgNO3¯-N per gram of medium, a greenhouse gas, N2O emitting capability of microorganisms in acidic peat soil in the area of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Bergeron
Despite the recognized importance of fire in North American boreal forests, the relative importance of stochastic and determinist portions of intra-regional spatial variability in fire frequency is still poorly understood. The first objective of this study is to identify sources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shlisky, Hickey, Bragg
Altered fire regimes are a serious threat to biodiversity in almost every major habitat type on earth. Threats to the restoration and maintenance of intact fire regimes (e.g., federal and state fire policies, land use, social values, global plant dispersal, governmental cultures…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gottfried, Neary, Ffolliott
Many traditional land management activities and supporting research have concentrated on one or two resources, with limited evaluations of interactions among other potential values. An ecosystem approach to land management requires an evaluation of the blend of physical and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bragg
The tallgrass prairie (Andropogon-Panicum) of central North America and the spinifex (Triodia) grasslands of the Gibson Desert of central Western Australia differ substantially in many ways, including in their responses to fire, but are similar in that both confirm the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the text ... 'No single fuel load may be acceptable for a large administrative area. Herein lies the dilemma of setting fuel load standards. Establishing standards would permit the setting of clear objectives for residue management and provide benchmarks with which to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Pellerin
In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands (bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and recent fire-free intervals (time interval between two consecutive fires) were compared using…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Drapeau, Gauthier, Lecomte
Several concepts are at the basis of forest ecosystem management, but a relative consensus exists around the idea of a forest management approach that is based on natural disturbances and forest dynamics. This type of approach aims to reproduce the main attributes of natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Kantelhardt, Scheiter, Boerner
Classic rangeland theory advocates stocking rangelands at relatively low and constant levels. This theory has been labelled inappropriate for savanna rangelands, because savannas are strongly influenced by stochastic processes. Opportunistic strategies that force animal numbers…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerby, Fuhlendorf, Engle
Fire and grazing are ecological processes that frequently interact to modify landscape patterns of vegetation. There is empirical and theoretical evidence that response of herbivores to heterogeneity is scale-dependent however the relationship between fire and scale of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinez-Hernandez, Rodríguez-Trejo
In the Ajusco volcano, in Central Mexico, prescribed burnings of low and high intensity were applied in March and May 2002, along with one unburned control for March and another for May, considering conditions of open stands and closed stands, with the objective of evaluating,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutherland
From the text (p.292) ... 'Monitoring may be difficult to plan, implement, analyze, interpret, and integrate into the adaptive management process, but long term monitoring on permanent plots often provides the best way, and sometimes the only way, to evaluate the impact of fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
From the text (p.293) ... 'This volume synthesizes scientific information about interactions between fire and nonnative invasive plant in wildlands of the united States. If the subject were clear and simple, this volume would be short; obviously, it is not. Relationships between…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks
From the text (p.265) ... 'This chapter explains how various fire suppression and postfire management activities can increase or decrease the potential for plant invasions following fire. A conceptual model is used to summarize the basic processes associated with plant invasions…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS