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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Agee
Following a prescribed fire, structural effects were measured over a 4-year postfire period. Initial tree mortality was concentrated in small diameter and height classes of Abies concolor (Gord. And Glend) Lindl., Pinus lambertiana Dougl., and Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Most…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Davis
Food intake of 3 tame moose (Alces alces) was observed on the Kenai Peninsula during summer on a normal range and during winter and spring on a normal and a depleted range. Plant species and bite sizes were recorded for 49 308 bites consumed. Food eaten varied between summer and…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blasing, Fritts
Spatial anomaly patterns of sea-level pressures over North America, the North Pacific, and eastern Asia in the 20th century can be statistically calibrated with spatial anomaly pattern of tree growth in semi-arid western North America. Growth anomalies prior to 1900 were…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doerr
Some concerns for managing moose (Alces alces andersoni) habitat in areas of intensive timber harvesting in the moist, temperate western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)-Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) biome are discussed. Results of field studies on two moose populations on the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Braathe
The effects of prescribed burning on organic matter, soil nutrients, pH, and spruce and pine establishment, growth and N content were studied. Burning had a beneficial effect on Calluna areas, where a thick raw humus layer occurs, but was not generally beneficial on Myrtillus…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Shapiro, Belon
ERTS-1 scene 1009-22095 (Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska) has been studied, partly as a training exercise, to evaluate whether direct visual examination of individual and custom color-composite prints can provide new information on the vegetation and geology of this relatively…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaback
Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests originating from windthrow, logging, or fire display characteristic developmental patterns over time in southeast Alaska. The early stages are the most dynamic, and the most productive for the understory. Understory biomass and production…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Chapter 8: Fields of fire [pp. 462-529] covers wildland fire research and the fire histories of Alaska and the southwest.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein
Continental populations of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) usually winter in the northern taiga. Fire is a natural feature of the ecology of the taiga but its effect on the winter range of caribou has been the subject of conflicting reports in the literature. Lichens, which are an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heinselman, Wright
Contains an introductory paper by the editors, and, in addition to papers separately noticed [see the next three abstracts], the following: Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota (M.L. Heinselman, 99 ref.); The importance of fire as a natural…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Van Cleve
This study reports the fuel weight and biomass distribution in a 51-year-old lowland and 55-year-old upland black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P.) stand in interior Alaska. Biomass distribution is shown for overstory, stand and down dead tree components, herbaceous…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rowell, Hajny, Young
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biswell
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey
During the 2 years after a severe wildfire, concentration of nitrate-N increased from pre-fire levels of 0.015 ppm to 0.56 ppm on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 ppm and 1.47 ppm on watersheds that were burned and fertilized with 54 kg/ha of N as ammonium sulfate…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dubreuil, Moore
The redistribution of nutrients after fire was examined under laboratory conditions by igniting samples of spruce needles, birch leaves and lichen and leaching the ash through a soil column. Nitrogen was lost from the tissue samples at temperatures above 200 deg C, and 52-88% of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ward, McMahon, Adams
The information presented is directed to environmental scientists and resource managers concerned with sulfur emissions from combustion processes. Atmospheric chemists believe these emissions accumulate in the stratosphere and affect the earth's radiation balance. Some of these…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
Eighteen experimental fires were used to compare measured and calculated values for emission factors and fuel consumption to evaluate the carbon balance technique. The technique is based on a model for the emission factor of carbon dioxide, corrected for the production of other…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS