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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brennan
From the text ... 'There will always be a significant place and need for fire suppression in the management of wildland resources. It is not my goal, purpose, or objective to suggest that all efforts at fire suppression should be abandoned, or that more applications of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pruden, Brennan
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mock, Bartlein, Anderson
Analyses of more than 40 years of climatic data reveal intriguing spatial variations in climatic patterns for Beringia (North-eastern Siberia and Alaska), aiding the understanding of the hierarchy of climatic controls that operate at different spatial scales within the Arctic. A…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickmann, Rollinger
The exclusion of fire from ecosystems to which it was a frequent visitor has produced profound alterations in historic ecological conditions; therefore, fire must be an integral component of ecosystem management. That was the overwhelming message conveyed by speakers at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
The fire ecology of Scandinavian forests and its management implications have many parallels to forests of the American West. As in the United States, the policy of fire exclusion has yielded to a broader understanding of fire ecology, and both silviculture and prescribed fire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fall
Fire is a prevalent natural disturbance in most of British Columbia's forest ecosystems. Recently, scientists and forest managers have recognized the important role fire plays in regulating forest ecosystems and maintaining biodiversity. In response, B.C. Government initiatives…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welbourn
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Preliminary findings of habitat use patterns for the Ray Mountains caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd were determined from three years of radiotelemetry observations. Caribou calving was concentrated in open south-sloping plateaus between Mt. Tozi and the Tozitna River. Most of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frost
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Bergeron, Engelmark, Wotton
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bergeron, Richard, Carcaillet, Gauthier, Flannigan, Prairie
Because some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting, forest management is often considered as a disturbance having effects similar to those of natural disturbances. Although the analogy between forest management and fire disturbance in boreal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armstrong, Swant, Timmermann
The Ogoki-North Nakina Forests consist of 10 638 km^2 of unroaded boreal forest (predominantly Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana and Populus tremuloides) about 400 km NE of Thunder Bay, Ontario (latitude 50 degrees -51 degrees 31'N., longitude 86 degrees 30'-89 degrees W.).…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Bunting
From the text...'Changing fire regimes have important implications for the health and function of ecosystems. Forest ecosystems change when fires are less frequent and more severe. The density of trees increases and fuels accumulate. More shade-tolerant, less disease-resistant…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser, Smol, Lean, MacDonald
Physical and chemical variables were measured in 35 lakes from Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Of these lakes, 22 were sinkholes, situated on limestone and gypsum, five were situated on the Canadian Shield and eight were…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric concentrations of radiatively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS