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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fosberg, Cramer, Brovkin, Fleming, Gardner, Gill, Goldammer, Keane, Koehler, Lenihan, Neilson, Sitch, Thornicke, Venevski, Weber, Wittenberg
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fetcher
The effect of removal of moss and low-growing shrubs on the growth of the tussock-forming cotton sedge Eriophorum vaginatum was studied at Eagle Creek in central Alaska. Shrubs and/or moss were removed from heavily infested tussocks with greater or lesser amounts of self-shading…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fancy, White
The rate of energy expenditure by caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) digging in snow for lichens was determined by heart rate telemetry and an analysis of cratering mechanics. Based on significant linear relationship between energy expenditure and heart rate, the mean cost per…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Densmore, Juday, Zasada
Site-preparation and regeneration methods for white spruce (Picea glauca) were investigated within the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, on 2 upland sites which had been burned in a wildfire (1983) and salvage logged (1985). One site supported white…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cogbill
Analyses of species composition and tree increment cores from 145 stands in central Quebec were used to study the forest history and stand dynamics. Windspread fires, possibly synchronous, burned across central Quebec in at least 3 periods of record (1661-1663, 1779-1791 and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Clark, Radke, Coen, Middleton
A good physical understanding of the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains as elusive goal for fire researchers. Although some data exist that describe the fire spread rate and some qualitative aspects of wildfire behavior, none have revealed the very small…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boles, Verbyla
Some AVHRR fire detection studies have excluded pixels that exceeded an arbitrary scan angle. This exclusion seems to be based on the distortion of pixels at high scan angles and the well-documented effects of scan angle on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. However,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bangs, Duff, Bailey
Two large burns, one in 1947 (125,000 ha) and another in 1969 (35,000 ha), produced excellent moose (Alces alces) habitat believed responsible for up to 6.6 moose/kilometers squared on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. The fire in 1969 burned during much hotter and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armstrong
The annual area burned on an 8.6 x 106 ha study area in the boreal mixedwood forest of northeastern Alberta, Canada, was characterized as a serially independent random draw from a lognormal distribution. This characterization was applied in Monte Carlo simulations, which showed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Meter, George, Johnson
The report describes chemical analysis procedures developed and/or in use at the lntermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory to determine the quantitative composition of fire retardant mixtures. These mixtures contain inorganic salts, coloring agents, and inhibitors of spoilage and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driscoll, Arocena, Massicotte
Forest fires are known to influence nutrient cycling, particularly soil nitrogen (N), as well as plant succession in northern forest ecosystems. However, few studies have addressed the dynamics of soil N and its relationship to vegetation composition after fire in these forests…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Acea, Carballas
Microorganisms in heated (200ºC, 1 h) soil not inoculated (H) or inoculated with 0.5% of fresh soil (Hi) and amended with wheat straw (Hi+WS) or poultry manure (Hi+PM) were determined during a 3-month soil incubation. Heating completely sterilised the soil, although the normal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dormaar, Schaber
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guggenheim
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We examined the long-term dynamics of upland boreal forest floors after disturbance by fire. We selected two important and contrasting upland tree species, Pinus banksiana (jack pine) and Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), in three distinct climatic zones across the boreal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Chapin, Sandberg, Roessler, Fukuda, Hinzman
Frostfire prescribed burn project overview and plan.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES