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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Smith, Mann
From the text ... 'An overview of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System has been prepared by Lawson et al. (1985). The FBP System includes the provision for calculating the size and shape of free-burning, wild-driven fires originating from a single ignition…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Fischer
The advent of 'fire management' has increased the need to understand and predict fire effects on vegetation. Such prediction is greatly complicated by the many factors that influence fire characteristics and plant response. Nevertheless, a few approaches have been developed to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willits, Sampson
Data on lumber, chip and sawdust vol. recovery and lumber value were analysed for live and fire-killed Picea glauca trees from an experimental forest area near Fairbanks. The dead trees were sampled either 2 yr or 3 yr after the fire in order to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilde, Krause
Based on an extensive survey of 200 areas and a detailed examination of soil and forest composition and increment on 37 sample plots, a description is given, with profile and data on soil properties, of skeletal (lithosols and regosols), alluvial, melanized raw humus, micro-…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces shirasi) numbers and use of habitat were studied on the Streeter Basin Experimental Watershed in the montane aspen zone of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, between 1969 and 1983. Habitat use was measured by pellet counts and directs…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Talbot, Markon
A Landsat-derived vegetation map was prepared for Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge lies within the northern boreal subzone of northwestern central Alaska. Six major vegetation classes and 21 subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, open needleleaf,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
From introduction: 'Alaska has a crucial forest fire problem. Since organized fire control began in 1940, areas burned have averaged 1.2 million acres annually. The largest loss of actual record occurred in 1957 when fires swept over 5 million acres of public lands. It is…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quintilio, Murphy, Woodard
Initial attack hotspotting rates are presented for a series of test burns in the boreal forest of northern Alberta in 1986/87. Three to six fire crew members were accompanied by a helicopter equipped with a bucket. A comparison was made with continuous fire line production rates…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molnar, McMinn
Basal scarring, a conspicuous abnormality of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) and its associated species in the Interior region of British Columbia, was found to be chiefly attributable to injury by bears, infections of Armillaria mellea (Vahl ex Fr.) Quel., fire,…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adamczewski, Gates, Soutar, Hudson
The insular population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) on Coats Island, Northwest Territories, is ultimately limited by winter food resources. This study was undertaken to assess forage biomass available during summer and to determine the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling
Historical data for NW Ontario were used to determine relations between catastrophic (stand replacing) fires and landscape diversity in the boreal forest. Results showed that landscape diversity was greatest with intermediate amounts of fire disturbance. Any change of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
[This is not the abstract; do not cite.] As part of a broader study to examine interactions between fire and spruce-lichen woodlands, dendrochronological samples, including 13 fire scars and 57 stand-origin dates, were collected across a small study area located in spruce-lichen…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Equations are presented for estimating the twig, foliage, and combined biomass for 58 plant species in interior Alaska. The equations can be used for estimating biomass from percentage of foliar cover of 10-centimeter layers in a vertical profile from 0 to 6 meters. Few…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Dyrness
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
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Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linton, Safranyik
Published literature dealing with the taxonomy, biology, ecology and management of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufpennis (Kirby), has been briefly annotated. This bibliography contains 311 references, with author and subject indexes. Its purpose is to provide easy access to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirby, Lewis, Sexson
This biological report fills two important voids in the libraries of many wildlife biologists- an annotated bibliography on fire in north America wetland ecosystems and a subject index of all fire-related literature that has appeared in Wildlife Review.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Messier, Huot, Le Henaff, Luttich
The George River herd in northern Quebec/Labrador increased from about 5000 animals in 1945 to 472,200 (or 1.1 caribou multiplied by km^-2) prior to the 1984 calving season. The range used by the herd expanded from 160,000 to 442,000 km2 for the period 1971-84. The exponential…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brubaker
Over the past two decades numerous paleoecological records have become available for describing past plant communities. They show that vegetation has changed on almost all temporal and spatial scales in response to natural environmental variation. Because species have responded…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vitt, Marsh, Bovey
From back cover: 'This book brings the small yet beautiful world of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns to those interested in understanding more about their surroundings. They are relatively inconspicuous plants that play biologically and potentially economically…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper offers some suggestions and field guides with respect to the operational application of C.E. Van Wagner's (1997, Can. J. For. Res. 7:23-34) theory to calculate the threshold conditions for the start and spread of crown fires in conifer forests. Three categories of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
It happens to most firefighters sooner or later if they have been on the job long enough. Everything along the fireline seems fairly well controlled. But then, unexpectedly, the wind shifts and becomes erratic. Wind speed picks up dramatically for 5 to 15 minutes and then…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS