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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dieterich
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
The impact of fire suppression on ecosystems with long fire return intervals has been considered negligible. It is argued that, since fire suppresssion has been effective for only the last 30 to 50 years, fire suppresssion could not possibly have had much of an impact where the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maldonado
The paper represents factors that cause wildland fires and their diverse impacts on Mexico. It also outlines how the Mexican government establishes and operates prevention and suppression programs by taking advantage of participation by all sectors in our society trying to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carleton, Maycock
Results from an extensive vegetation survey of 197 boreal forest stands, encompassing a full spectrum of succession and site types in the regions of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, are reported. Non-centered principal component analysis plus varimax rotation (nodal…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maass
A single thallus of Erioderma pedicellatum has been found in Newfoundland near one of the 2 North American localities known thus far for this unusual lichen. Whereas almost all of the other species of the genus have tropical to subtropical affinities in their distribution and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme
It is often quite difficult to compare fire history studies conducted by different investigators because different terms may be used to refer to the same concept and the same term may be used to refer to different concepts. To help resolve this difficulty, an ad hoc committee…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peterson, Arbaugh, Pollock, Robinson
Dendroecological methods were used to study the effects of wildfire on radial growth of Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) and Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) in the northern Rocky Mountains. Mean basal area increment during a 4-year postfire period declined relative to prefire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Steele
Repeated observations of permanent plots and transects are used to evaluate adaptive responses of individual species and communities of perennial plants following fires that occurred in 1974. Positive adaptations are common, but are weakly developed. Recovery is taking place,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doren, Roberts, Richardson
Fire as an ecological factor is of major importance in the distribution, species composition, and productivity of the sand pine scrub community, both in its own right and as it interacts with other factors such as animal influences, trophic factors, soil particle movement, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zackrisson
The past and present fire regimes are described, and the significance for the flora of this region is discussed. Methods used to reconstruct forest fire history are presented. The dating problems with false and absent rings in Scots pine, Norway spruce and two birch species…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
Evidence from 10 years of fire records and 300 years of tree ages and fire scars indicate that forest fires in a large area east of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. are recurrent over a short time interval (<125 years) and related to large scale air mass climate patterns and terrain…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawkes
Mean fire return intervals for different ecological subzones, aspects and elevations in Kananaskis Provincial Park were described. Comparison of the results from this study with others was not practical because of a number of constraints. A discussion of the mean fire return…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck, Schandelmeier
Alaskan land and resource managers are moving from a policy of fire control to one of fire management. To use fire as a tool to reach resource management objectives, managers need information on fire effects and the role of fire in northern environment. The authors searched and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
One of the studies being conducted by the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana in an analysis of the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire occurrence data. We believe that this work can be used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Van Wagner
This study investigates the impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada. Using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 X CO2), simulation results from three general circulation models (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
This study investigates the relationship between lightning activity and the occurrence of lightning-ignited forest fires in the Northwestern Region of Ontario. We found that the Duff Moisture Code (a component of the Fire Weather Index System) and the multiplicity of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES