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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Catchpole, Alexander, Gill
Equations are presented for determining the proportion of the total perimeter and area burned for a simple elliptically shaped fire for any specified range of Byram's fireline intensities. The same principles apply to any characteristic that is dependent on fireline intensity.…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swanson, Barker
Populations of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have fluctuated greatly since their introduction to Alaska in 1891. In the 1930s, reported numbers exceeded 600,000. Presently, 38,000 reindeer graze 6.2 million ha of rangeland and woodland in Western Alaska (from 66 degrees 54'N to…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alm, Tolonen, Vasander
The feasibility of using dendrochronology to obtain accumulation rates for recently accumulated peat was examined. Two charcoal layers originating from two forest fires were found at between 7 and 58 cm in the peat of Lakkasuo mire, Finland. Dendrochronology and the fire scars…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heimer
The classic concept of nutritional carrying capacity tends to complicate management of Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) populations because they often exist at relatively constant populations sizes over extended periods. The fundamental axiom taught in the wildlife management…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Max
The seasonal and spatial patterns of dispersal of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seed were studied from 1986 to 1989 in floodplain stands along the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska. Analysis of the 1987 crop showed that production of filled seed was strongly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weeden
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Batten, Wenzlick
The Alaska vegetation classification presented here is a comprehensive, statewide system that has been under development since 1976. The classification is based, as much as possible, on the characteristics of the vegetation itself and is designed to categorize existing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Hees
Forest inventory data collected in 1987 fTom sample plots established on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed to provide point-in-time estimates of the trend and current status of a spruce beetle infestation. Ground plots were categorized by stage of infestation. Estimates of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wahrhaftig
A classification and brief description with a discussion of high-latitude physiographic processes. Includes maps and photographs. Alaska occupies the great northwestern peninsula of North America, which slopes and drains westward to the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Most of the State…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renecker, Karidis, Bauer
The global objective of this study was to define techniques that could be used to describe the 'critical habitat requirements' of reindeer in the Beringia Heritage International Park and be related to animal productivity. To accomplish this resource management goal for the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mask
As of 1992, beetle-caused spruce mortality ranged from 8 to 68% of the spruce component within 5 sample areas. Continued beetle activity and tree mortality are expected for at least the next two to three years. Management alternatives are discussed.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mask
During the winter of 1981, a windstorm caused extensive blowdown in the Yakutat area. In 1988, 20 permanent plots were established to monitor spruce beetle activity. A reevaluation of these plots in 1991 revealed low spruce beetle populations and minimal tree mortality since…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
From objectives (page 2): 'The project objectives are: 1) determine if fires around lake and wetland margins affect the flow of nutrients into the wetlands, 2) determine of an increased flow of nutrients in wetlands from fire influences waterbird densities on the wetlands, and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson
Data collected in conjunction with the multiresource inventory of southeast Alaska in 1985-86 included downed wood along 234 transects at 60 locations. Transects occurred in 11 forest types and 19 plant associations within the entire southeastern Alaska archipelago. Downed wood…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaye
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gregory, Haack
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a subsystem of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, which also includes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FBP System provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate,…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Downing
Report relates results of aerial surveys conducted during the summer fo 1956. Heavy white spruce losses to Ips interpunctus near Fort Yukon were observed. Dendroctonus obesus remains active in southeast and interior Alaska. Black-headed budworm has returned to endemic levels in…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A spatial model of long-term forest fire dynamics and its applications to forests in western Siberia
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shugart, Leemans, Bonan
The boreal forests of the world, geographically situated to the south of the Arctic and generally north of latitude 50 degrees, are considered to be one of the earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems in terms of their potential for interaction with other global scale…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forests fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the casual connection between the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cody
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grange
[from the text] Many northern forest trees reproduce best on bare-soil seedbeds, and fire is the major agency that prepares the land for their seeding.It is equally true that periods of abundance for many northern forest animals stand in the relationship X-years-following-fire,…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Reynolds, Dean, Miller
Satellite imagery is a valuable tool for environmental monitoring of natural and man-made events. Analysis of imagery within a few hours is vital if these data are to be used to respond to rapidly changing conditions. Since April of 1982 Landsat imagery from the Quick-Look…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES