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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cockerham
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nuss
This assessment estimated the total number of forestland acres on the Kenai Peninsula in high, medium and low impact status with respect to spruce beetle activity. Authors estimated the annual mortality rate to be 3%.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
From 'Assessing Crown Fire Hazard': 'Scott and Reinhardt (in preparation) developed two quantitative indices of crown fire hazard--the Torching Index and the Crowning Index --that managers can use to assess the potential for crowing by wildfires. The indices are derived from…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulze, Lloyd, Kelliher, Wirth, Rebmann, Luhker, Mund, Knohl, Milyskova, Schulze, Ziegler, Varlagin, Sogachev, Valentini, Dore, Grigoriev, Kolle, Panfyorov, Tchebakova, Vygodskaya
Published and original data were analysed to investigate carbon pools and fluxes in Siberian forests totalling 600 million ha, and European forests totalling 300 million ha. Productivity parameters assessed were Net Primary Productivity (NPP=whole plant growth), Net Ecosystem…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Price, Halliwell, Apps, Peng
Aim: To investigate effects of within-season and interannual climate variability on the behaviour of boreal forest ecosystems as simulated by the FORSKA2 patch model. Location: Eleven climate station locations distributed along a transect across the boreal zone of central Canada…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponizovsky, Chudinova, Pachepsky
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is widely used to measure the soil water contents. The effect of soil composition on TDR calibration has to be quantified to diminish the need in re-calibration of TDR. Objectives of the study were: (a) to evaluate the ability of published models…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastor, Cohen, Moen
Boreal forests are composed of a few plant species with contrasting traits with respect to ecosystem functioning and spatial patterning. Early successional deciduous species, such as birch (Betula spp.) and aspen (Populus spp.), disperse seeds widely, do not tolerate low light…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Klopatek, DeBano, Ffolliott
The overall effects of fire on ecosystems are complex, ranging from the reduction or elimination of aboveground biomass to impacts on belowground physical, chemical and microbial mediated processes. Since a key component of overall ecosystem sustainability occurs belowground,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
The quantity of dead and downed woody fuels in forests is commonly estimated using the line intersect method of sampling. Determination of the mass of wood per unit area for each size class requires values for the mean specific gravity, piece tilt angle and piece diameter. We…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niemela
Disturbances and the consequent habitat heterogeneity are natural features of the boreal forest. Natural disturbances occurring at the level of populations, communities and ecosystems (meters to kilometers and years to hundreds of years), that is, at the 'meso-scale' may provide…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lehmkuhl
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Nest, Alexander
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger-rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The proceedings contain 10 papers. Four deal with the development and calibration of detailed site-specific process-based models: carbon partitioning, examination of the causes of the decline in net primary production (NPP) in balsam fir (Abies balsamea) with a detailed process-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
An experimental fire severity forecast effort is described herein. Daily to monthly regional forecasts of nea rsurface fire-weather variables from the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center experimental forecast system are being utilized for an experimental US Forest…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rechel, Tissell, Riggan
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, England
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES