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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kay
From the text (p.250) ... 'In addition to the materials reviewed by Williams in chapter 7, there are several ecological data sets that suggest aboriginal burning once accounted for most fires in the West, as well as in eastern forests. Brown et al. (1944), for instance, compared…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
Pollen and charcoal from East Sooke Fen, Pixie Lake, and Whyac Lake were used to reconstruct the post-glacial vegetation, climate, and fire-disturbance history across a precipitation gradient on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. An open Pinus woodland covered the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nowak, Kershaw, Kershaw
Postfire development of cover and diversity was studied in an upland Picea mariana-dominated forest in theCanadian Subarctic. Short-term vegetation responses of 10- and 22-year-old cleared rights-of-way and a forest site were investigated two and three growing seasons after a…
Year: 2002
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
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera, Ter-Mikaelian, Martell, Li
With the exponential model, Van Wagner (1978) gave us valuable insight in understanding stand age and forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. He showed that, under certain conditions, the probability distribution of the age of a stand subject to periodic renewal by…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera
Natural fire disturbances are known to have had a significant role in boreal forests at the stand and landscape levels. Van Wagner's exponential model gave useful insight into the theoretical dynamics of the forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. His work…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Spatial and temporal variations in fire frequency in the boreal forest of Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) were assessed using forest stand age, fire scar and historical data. I test the hypotheses that (1) fire frequency is higher in jack pine forests and aspen forests than in…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin, Coderre
The edaphic macroarthropod communities of three sites representative of the forest succession in the Lake Duparquet region (situated in the southern part of the boreal forest, Abitibi, Quebec, Canada) were studied. A 47-year-old deciduous forest, a 144-year-old mixed forest, and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stambaugh, Muzika, Guyette
The Eck Memorial Natural Area is the largest old-growth shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) forest in Missouri, USA. The objectives of this study were to characterize vegetation, examine historic and contemporary disturbances, and describe potential vegetation changes for this…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vasiliauskas, Chen
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simons, Schwab, Otto
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sánchez-Velásquez, Ezcurra, Martínez-Ramos, Álvarez-Buylla, Lorente
Summary1. Zea Diploperennis is a wild relative of maize that is endemic to the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Because this species is a priority for conservation in the reserve, the effects on its populations of the most common types of anthropogenic…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Harvey, Gauthier
The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalabokidis, Gatzojannis, Galatsidas
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey, Leduc, Gauthier, Bergeron
Forest ecosystem management, based partly on a greater understanding of natural disturbance regimes, has many variations but is generally considered the most promising approach to accommodating biodiversity concerns in managed forested regions. Using the Lake Duparquet Forest in…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Using Forest Health Monitoring to assess aspen forest cover change in the southern Rockies ecoregion
Long-term qualitative observations suggest a marked decline in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) primarily due to advancing succession and fire suppression. This study presents an ecoregional coarse-grid analysis of the current aspen situation using Forest Health…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wierzchowski, Heathcott, Flannigan
This study examines the influences of fuel, weather and topography on lightning-caused forest fires in portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The results show a significant difference in lightning and ligntning-caused fires east and west of the Continental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chipman, Johnson
One of the goals of ecosystem management has been to maintain plant specie diversity. Emulating the "natural” (pre-European) fire regime is often proposed as a means of accomplishing this goal in fire-influenced boreal forest ecosystems. Here we examine this hypothesis as it…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Purdy, Macdonald, Dale
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS