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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Chapin, Van Cleve
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied.Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
Fire ecology is discussed in relation to basic ecological processes; the characteristics of the fire environment are reviewed. Lightning and lightning storms are considered as the primary natural cause of fires in nature. The nature of fire and its relationship to plants,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strang
From the text ... 'At the request of the Provincial government, an ecological examination was carried out between 1966 and 1968, to determine whether afforestation would be practical. The soil and vegetation of the heathlands were examined in detail and compared with adjacent…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foggin, DeBano
This paper describes the nature of water repellency, factors causing repellency, and geographic implications of findings from recent studies.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Between 1961 and 1963 two balsam fir cutovers were burned under low fire hazard conditions. The treatment eliminated practically all balsam fir advance growth and reduced the quantity of slash and other debris. The reduction was considered sufficient to facilitate the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tisdale, Hironaka
The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of literature on the vegetation of the sagebrush region of North America. Since the objective is to document the current status of knowledge of sagebrush vegetation, emphasis has been placed on thorough coverage of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This report contains an annotated bibliography of the effects of fire, logging, grazing, and spraying on small mammals and their predators. Each citation lists keywords. A brief summary of the general effects of fire on some of the more common small mammals in western coniferous…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niering
Prescribed burning is extensively used in wildlife, forest, and range management, and in maintaining biotic diversity. Burning tends to increase food and/or favourable habitat conditions for many upland game and waterfowl species. Prescribed burning in forest management is used…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Harvey
The mixedwood forest is defined as a successional mosaic of stratified mixed stands of disturbance (mainly wildfire) origin. The effect of long-term exclusion of fire is discussed. A plea is made for a 'let-burn' policy in parks and improved silviculture for maintaining the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Hilton
This paper reports on the effects on lowbush blueberries and associated species of pruning by two methods of burning and by mechanical clipping, on three dates in the growing season at a north-eastern Ontario location. Significant soil changes recorded during the study are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The purposes of this study are to: 1. provide burning prescriptions for hazard reduction; 2. determine if burning will improve planting-crew efficiency by reducing the physical barrier of slash accumulations; 3. evaluate the effect of burning on reversal of site deterioration by…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yarie
The negative exponential and Wiebull distributions were used to estimate stand survivorship curves for forested sites in the Porcupine River drainage of interior Alaska. The survivorship curve of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss sites was best described by a Wiebull function, while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
1. In central Alaska, Taiga Voles live in communal groups of five to ten individuals (mean = 7.1) for eight months of the year. During this winter period, they share a common stored food cache. 2. Evidence from both field monitoring of nest temperatures and laboratory studies…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rusch, Keith
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie, Hare
Earlier studies in Alaska and northwest Canada have shown inconsistent evidence for the expected northward extension of the Arctic tree line during the Hypsithermal Interval. Only megafossil evidence has supported this suggestion; the palynological findings have been…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neiland
Major vegetational, environmental, and peat accumulation patterns were studied in the forest-bog complex of southeast Alaska. Attention was directed to three levels of vegetational pattern: (1) the community type level, with forest, bog, and intermediate types being recognized…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver, Van Cleve
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
Large-scale, man-created or natural disturbances play a major role in determining forest structure and species composition in many areas of North America and probably other temperate and tropical forests. Studies suggest a single group of species is not predestined to inhabit an…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS