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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thomas
From the Conclusion ... 'Quail enthusiasts who have pine forestland have an opportunity to improve quail habitat and improve pine growth and productivity by using imazapyr to control competitive vegetation [see Table 4 -- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement with Imazapyr]. Other game…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herr, Duchesne, Reader
The effects of soil organic matter, soil moisture, shading and ash on white pine (Pinus strobus L.) emergence were investigated using soil monoliths in greenhouse experiments. White pine seedling emergence increased with soil organic matter removal, and levelled with the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root density, mass, fibre content,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beland, Bergeron, Zarnovican
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, Elliott
The Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem Study near Thunder Bay, Ontario is a multi-disciplinary investigation of the impacts of harvesting and fire on the structure and function of a boreal mixed-wood ecosystem. The fire component comprises a set of treatments in which fire severity was…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Damhoureyeh, Hartnett
Forb populations were sampled on Kansas tallgrass prairie to exaniinc the effects of native (bison) and domestic (cattle) ungulates on plant growth, reproduction, and species abundances. Five locally and regionally abundant native tallgrass prairie perennials, Baptisia bracteata…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers arrived. Since presettlement,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant species and management of this…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin-R, Cox, Ibarra-F, Alston, Banner, Malecheck
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nantel, Gagnon
1. The clonal perennial herb Helianthus divaricatus and the clonal shrub Rhus aromatica reach the northern limit of their distribution in southern Quebec (Canada), where both are rare, but they are more common southwards in the adjacent province of Ontario. We tested whether…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Bark beetles are decimating Alaska's spruce and and bringing together the mostly unlikely of partners...The spruce bark beetle has unwittingly produced collaboration among the humans who share their woods--people who have been at odds for decades...Firefighter…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Most ecosystems in North America evolved with the aid of periodic fires. Managers of natural areas, including prairies and wetlands, who seek to maintain ecologically diverse sites will at some point explore the use of fire in their management program. This article introduces…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan, Lautenschlager, Wagner
1. This study was designed to test the hypotheses that (i) abundance and related demographic parameters of small mammal populations would decline after clearcutting of northern spruce-fir forest, and (ii) prescribed burning, following clearcutting, an approach to emulating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, MuellerRowat, Clark, Pinto
The effects of organic matter removal, ashes and shading were investigated on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) emergence using soil monoliths in greenhouse conditions. Two hundred (18 cm width x 30 cm length x 25 cm depth) soil monoliths (50 from each of four sites…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bevins
From the text...'The fire modeling capabilities of BEHAVE have not been updated since 1989. There is a presssing need to include available crown fire models (Rothermel 1991; Van Wagner 1977, 1993). In addition, we will incorporate a model for large fuel burnout behind the fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS