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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Howard, McWilliams
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides information on the Internet about the biology, ecology, and effects of fire on about 1,000 plant species, animal species, and vegetation types. FEIS summarizes the scientific literature regarding fire effects on most dominant…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Krasnoshchekova, Bezkorovainaya
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Parsons, Rollins, Karau, Keyser
Biophysical settings describe site-specific physical and biotic conditions from which landscape composition, structure and function can be predicted, and represent a key starting point on the road to predicting fire regimes across landscapes. Previous efforts to map biophysical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saperstein, Joly
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Musslewhite, Wipfli
We examined the transport of invertebrates and coarse organic detritus from headwater streams draining timber harvest units in a selective timber harvesting study, alternatives to clearcutting (ATC) in southeastern Alaska. Transport in 17 small streams (mean measured discharge…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fowler, Sieg
This review focused on the primary literature that described, modeled, or predicted the probability of postfire mortality in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). The methods and measurements that were used to predict postfire tree death…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brooks
This is a proposal soliciting support for a symposium on the inter-relationships between fire and invasive plants. This symposium is scheduled for 1:00-4:30 PM, 6 August 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, as a special session of the joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Jimenez, Reardon, Ryan, Webb
Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models of duff…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner
Objective: The purpose/objectives of the 2: Congress is an open exchange of information between fire managers, land managers, fire ecologists and the meteorological and climatological community. As stated above, the issue of wildland fire has become one of great concern. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynch, Hollis, Hu
1) The response of ecosystems to past and future climatic change is difficult to understand due to the uncertainties in the direction and magnitude of changes and the relative importance of interactions between climate and local factors. In boreal ecosystems such interactions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lee
This paper compares seed and vegetative banks, and the emergent understorey in unburned, lightly burned, and intensely burned patches within an aspen-dominated boreal forest in northeastern Alberta, Canada. Propagule banks were measured immediately after the fire, while the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Francis
A discussion of the general characteristics of shrubs as a life form and their distribution within the United States is followed by 311 short monographs containing general descriptions, ranges, ecology, reproductive habits, growth and management, and benefits to humans, animals…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane
The following instructions are provided to help you get started using the FIRMON database. Steps marked Optional may be completed at a later time and are not required prior to data entry. Most of these instructions are related to the initial setup of FIREMON. For example, once…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
Weed infestations cause an economic loss of $13 billion per year even though $9.5 billion per year is spent on weed control measures. In addition to these economic costs, weeds are replacing native species, altering native plant and animal communities, affecting ecosystem health…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black
Fire suppression has reduced acres burned to an average of 2 million acres a year. An unfortunate result of this has been the accumulation of even more above-normal fuel loads in many areas. This paper discusses (1) the important ecological role of fire, (2) using fire as a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod
Managers face a difficult task in predicting the effects of fuels treatments on wildlife populations, mostly because information on how animals respond to fuels treatments is scarce or does not exist. This paper discusses key considerations-aspects of an animal's ecology and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides accessible, up-to-date fire effects summaries, taken from current English-language literature, for almost 900 plant species, about 100 animal species, and 16 Kuchler plant communities found on the North American continent. This…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caratti
The FIREMON database software allows users to enter data, generate summary reports, and perform other data management tasks. The FIREMON database software consists of a Java application and a Microsoft Access database. The Java application provides the user interface with…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gangi, Keane
The FIREMON Analysis Tools component encompasses two major tasks: 1) data entry and 2) data analysis. Data entry is accomplished in FIREMON by physically entering the collected field data into a set of standardized Microsoft Access databases. Data analysis is accomplished using…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hann, Beighley, Teensma, Sexton, Hilbruner
Analyses were conducted of fire and fuel management options for 172 million hectares (424 million acres) of Forest Service and Interior public lands in the contiguous lower 48 states. A landscape dynamics model was calibrated based on fire regime condition class (FRCC). A…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS