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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
Investigations have shown that fires in boreal forests result in characteristic responses which are recorded on ERS-1 SAR imagery. Using one of the many fire signatures observed on ERS-1 SAR imagery, the analysis of the data revealed there is >10 dB in variation in image…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hennon, Shaw
Yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is a valuable tree species that is experiencing an extensive forest decline on over 200,000 ha of unmanaged forest in southeast Alaska. Biotic factors appear secondary and some abiotic factor is probably the primary cause of this…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hatler
Black bears in the interior of Alaska emerging from winter dens in early May spend much of the first three months of their annual active season in riverbottom and other lowland situations where the shoots and new leaves of green vegetation, especially Equisetum spp. Compose the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Klein
Oil development, tourism, and expanding human populations, are bringing about increased pressures on large mammals in the Arctic and Subarctic. Management of marine mammals requires close international cooperation, and recent protection offered to the Polar Bear on a…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hogg
Four species of boreal forest conifers (Picea glauca, P. mariana, Larix laricina and Pinus banksiana) share a similar southern limit of natural distribution in the three Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) of western Canada. The southern boundaries of boreal…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forsythe, Loucks
This study develops a data-transformation method useful in correlating species importance with habitat factors. The relative basal area of six major tree species is examined in relation to data on eight environmental factors. A parabola transformation makes the dome-shaped…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Efremova, Efremov
Four stages of thermal degradation of peat are distinguished in the southern taiga subzone of western Siberia; the stages are determined by the types of fires and their intensity. Fire strongly affects compaction of peat, which leads to a significant increase in stores of ash…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Edwards, Barker
Changing abundances of taxa in the pollen record of northeastern Alaska contain a climate signal and may be compared with GCM simulations of paleo climates. Cold, dry conditions indicated by full-glacial pollen spectra are in broad agreement with model simulations. Successive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

DeVelice, Queitzsch, Holsten
Species richness did not change on burned plots but declined 24% on the non-burned plots. Compositional changes resulted in changed vegetation types for about one half of both the burned and not-burned plots. It appears that regeneration requirements (e.g., mineral soil) for…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Collins, Racine, Walsh
The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Carleton, MacLellan
The woody vegetation that developed after clear felling and logging 131 stands dominated by Picea mariana was compared with that of stands that developed after fire in boreal forests of Ontario. Each dataset represents a stand chronosequence on a range of substrates.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergeron, Charron
Arboreal succession in the southern boreal forest of QuTbec was documented through a dendroecological analysis of a mid-successional stand originating from fire 75 years ago. The studied stand was located in the forest surrounding Lake Duparquet, south of Lake Abitibi in…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Marks, Taylor
From the text... 'In an experimental plot established by the Nature Conservancy in 1957 to follow long-term effects of sheep grazing and rotational burning on Calluneto-Eriophoretum, a study of the response of R. chamaemorus to these treatments was initiated in 1969 (Taylor…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

White
This article explores the evidence for monoterpenes to alter rates of nutrient cycling, with particular emphasis on the nitrogen (N) cycle, from an ecosystem perspective. The general N cycle is reviewed and particular processes are noted where monoterpenes could exert control.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dignon, Atherton, Penner, Walton
We present estimates of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission from worldwide biomass burning totaling ~13 Tg N yr-1 on a 1 degree longitude by 1 degree latitude grid. Roughly 80 percent of these emissions occur in the zone from 25N to 25 degrees S. The inventory presented here is…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Foster, Gessel
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mooney
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Way, Rignot, McDonald, Oren, Kwok, Bonan, Dobson, Viereck, Roth
Changes in the seasonal CO2 flux of the boreal forests may result from increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and associated global warming patterns. To monitor this potential change, a combination of information derived from remote sensing data, including forest type and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Carretero
From the text...”Extinguishing forest fires must be done urgently, in most cases, using whatever tools at hand, with little time to employ mechanical methods. Making matters worse, location of the fire cannot be foreseen, nor such factors as wind direction and velocity. Passive…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS