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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wilmking, Juday, Barber, Zald
Northern and high-latitude alpine treelines are generally thought to be limited by available warmth. Most studies of tree-growth/climate interaction at treeline as well as climate reconstructions using dendrochronology report positive growth response of treeline trees to warmer…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vesk, Westoby
A widely used classification of plant response to fire divides species into two groups, sprouters and non-sprouters. In contrast, regeneration responses to catastrophic windthrow and small gap disturbance are more often considered a continuum. We determined general patterns in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van der Wal, Brooker
1. Large herbivores have significant impacts on the structure and function of temperate and tropical ecosystems. Yet herbivore impacts on arctic systems, particularly the mechanisms by which they influence plant communities, are largely unknown. 2. High arctic vegetation,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Treseder, Mack, Cross
Fires are critical pathways of carbon loss from boreal forest soils, whereas microbial communities form equally critical controls over carbon accumulation between fires. We used a chronosequence in Alaska to test Read's hypothesis that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi should…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thornley, Cannell
Climate change is predicted to shorten the fire interval in boreal forests. Many studies have recorded positive effects of fire on forest growth over a few decades, but few have modeled the long-term effects of the loss of carbon and nitrogen to the atmosphere. We used a process…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Wotton, Alexander, Dalrymple
Fire spread and flame temperature were examined in a series of nine experimental crown fires conducted in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Detailed maps of fire front progression revealed areas with higher rates of spread in the order of tens of metres in horizontal dimension…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturm, Weaver
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), carried out between 1995 and 2001 in Canada's Northwest Territories, involved 18 experimental high-intensity crown fires, with more than 100 participants representing 30 organizations from 14 countries. ICFME has…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster, Krebs
A sensitivity analysis was conducted of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) to better understand the relationship between data input and model outcomes, as reflected by changes in C+NVC and MEL program options. Five input variables were selected for…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saint-Germain, Drapeau, Hébert
Several insect groups have adapted to fire cycles in boreal forests, and can efficiently use new habitats created by fire. Our study aimed at producing a first characterization of post-fire Coleoptera assemblages of black spruce forests of eastern North America. For two years,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rollins, Keane, Parsons
Maps of fuels and fire regimes are essential for understanding ecological relationships between wildland fire and landscape structure, composition, and function, and for managing wildland fire hazard and risk with an ecosystem perspective. While critical for successful wildland…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Gasvoda, Hungerford, Bilskie, Ashmun, Reardon
Duff water content is an important consideration for fire managers when determining favourable timing for prescribed fire ignition. The duff consumption during burning depends largely on the duff water content at the time of ignition. A portable duff moisture meter was developed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Bilskie
Prescribed fires are increasingly being used to reduce hazardous fuels, a major objective of the National Fire Plan. Despite advancing technology and ever-improving models, fire managers still find it challenging to determine the right time for a prescribed burn.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robichaud
The tough, lightweight DMM600 is a portable, battery-powered sensor that provides real-time water content measurements of non-homogenous material. This sensor was originally developed to measure forest floor duff (decomposing organic material) moisture content and thus, aid in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads
Since 27 September 1997, the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making near real-time experimental global and regional dynamical forecasts with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) global spectral model (GSM) and the corresponding…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Ottmar
Extensive measurements of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters are summarized, showing that firefighters can be exposed to significant levels of carbon monoxide and respiratory irritants, including formaldehyde, acrolein, and respirable particulate matter. Benzene was also…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Racine, Jandt, Meyers, Dennis
A 1977 tundra fire burned a hillslope where prefire soils and vegetation ranged from poorly drained moist tussock-shrub tundra on the lower slopes to well-drained dwarf shrub tundra on the back slope and very poorly drained wet sedge meadow on the flat crest. We sampled the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Putnam, Butler
Fire shelters are critical safety items required for use by most wildland firefighters in the United States. Most testing of fire shelters, clothing and other personal protective equipment (PPE) has been limited to prescribed fires or laboratory based studies. This study reports…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
The objectives of this reply are to: (1) clarify the scope and intent of the authors' original paper [See Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2002) 32, 1496-1501]; (2) respond to the issue of accuracy of concept; and (3) discuss its relevance to the broader issue of forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds in North America may reach considerable size and undertake large-scale seasonal migrations from the Arctic tundra to the boreal forest. To test the caribou decline hypothesis associated with native harvesting and fire, we have…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Natcher
Through a process of participatory mapping, this research assessed the impacts of the 1984 change in Alaska fire policy from one of exclusion to one of management on native land use in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Findings suggest that while the change in policy has…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mladenoff
This paper provides contextual documentation of the LANDIS model development to provide a framework for the other papers in this special issue. The LANDIS model of forest landscape disturbance and succession was developed since the early 1990s as a research and management tool…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers, Omi, Hof
We explore the use of spatially correlated random treatments to reduce fuels in landscape patterns that appear somewhat natural while forming fully connected fuelbreaks between wildland forests and developed protection zones. From treatment zone maps partitioned into grids of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Finney, Andrews, Albini
A numerical model for the prediction of the spread rate and intensity of forest crown fires has been developed. The model is the culmination of over 20 years of previously reported fire modelling research and experiments; however, it is only recently that it has been formulated…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The purpose of the project was to restore forest health by reducing stocking levels and reducing ground and vertical forest fuels while retaining the large healthy over story component of the forest ecosystem. The long term goal of the project is to return this forest to its…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES