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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bergeron
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to favour landscape compositions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tierney
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spies
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brais, Harvey, Bergeron, Messier, Greene, Belleau, Paré
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Climent, Tapias, Pardos, Gil
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Dey
Ignitions, fuels, topography, and climate interact through time to create temporal and spatial differences in the frequency of fire, which, in turn, affects ecosystem structure and function. In many ecosystems non-human ignitions are overwhelmed by anthropogenic ignitions. Human…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fralish
Communities of the central hardwood forest have been dominated primarily by oak and hickory for the past 5000 years. Over this time period, they have become keystone species within the ecosystem and are of major importance in maintaining biodiversity. Not only do the large…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear
Of the many disturbance factors that shaped hardwood forests in the eastern United States, fire was perhaps the most important. Fires ignited by Native Americans and lightning played a dominant role in sustaining oak (Quercus spp.) forests throughout the Central Hardwood Region…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
Like all forests, oak forests are continually responding to disturbances originating from both within and outside the forest. Oaks (Quercus spp.) owe their very existence to disturbance. In this context, silvicultural and other management practices can be thought of as planned…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reed, Johnson
This paper considers the statistical analysis of fire-interval charts based on fire-scar data. Estimation of the fire interval (expected time between scar-registering fires at any location) by maximum likelihood is presented. Because fires spread, causing a lack of independence…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parisien, Sirois, Babeau
The study of a species at its range limits allows the factors associated with its presence on the landscape to be determined. This study examines the distribution and dynamics of jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a fire-adapted boreal tree species, in two sectors of its longitudinal…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogeau, Pengelly, Fortin
The fire management goal in Banff National Park is to maintain or restore, where possible, historical fire regimes. Fire cycles are an important component of a fire regime, and historical fire cycles provide a reference to guide the use of prescribed fire. Weather, climate,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bothwell, de Groot, Dube, Chowns, Carlsson, Stefner
Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary are ecologically important areas in the Northwest Territories. Fire history data in Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary were used for a comparative analysis in order to identify the most influential…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jandt, Hrobak
A summary report by Alaska Fire Service personnel on the record season of 2004 in Alaska, including statistics, smoke impacts, and research conducted during the fire season. Poster presentation at Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes Conference, Spokane, WA Nov. 17-19, 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ramos-Prado, Del, Gomez-Pompa, Allen
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Groot, Gauthier, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Wein
Betula glandulosa survives over a wide range of North American fire regimes by resprouting from the rhizome. Over-winter root carbohydrate reserves are important to sprout production and growth in the following spring. Nursery and field experiments were conducted to examine the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS