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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Magoun, Vernam
Description not entered.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieb, Tobey, Eide
As a continuation on the Nelchina caribou range relationships study initiated in 1955 and last reported on in 1972, 38 range stations were examined during the summers of 1977 and 1983. Evaluations of plant species composition, height, percent cover, condition, and use were made…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
The present infestation is believed to have developed from a combination of factors: 1) large amounts of breeding material resulting from the Rosie Creek Fire and broken tops originating from heavy snowfalls in the 1984-85 winter, and 2) abnormally low snowfall in 1985-86 and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heginbottom
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
This, the second in a series of publications summarizing knowledge about the forest resources of southeast Alaska, deals with destructive forest insects. The report covers the impact of the major defoliators and bark beetles that affect trees in southeast Alaska. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
To facilitate debris management, procedures for inventorying downed woody material are presented. Instructions show how to estimate weights and volumes of downed woody material, fuel depth, and duff depth. Using the planar intersect technique, downed material is inventoried by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Berglund
Records of 21 stations were analyzed for the occurrence, persistence, and related visibility resulting from summertime wildfire smoke and haze in interior Alaska. Maximum probability of smoke occurrence for any station and month was 8.7 percent in July for Bettles. Seasonal…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
This paper by Bill Adams, BLM Alaska State Office, Division of Fire Control, was developed with a research needs analysis by the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska. It expresses of program management, including BLM's fire program and provides a view of future fire management,…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeResche, Bishop, Coady
Moose (Alces alces) have been present in Alaska since mid- to late-pleistocene times. They probably survived in relatively small, disjunct groups wherever suitable habitat could be found throughout this period, when a tundra-steppe community dominated much of the Alaska refugium…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Billington
Description not entered.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Chapin
In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of browsing by mammals upon recruitment of trees and shrubs during plant succession in boreal forests. Radiation, soil temperature, and nutrient availability decline sharply through succession in Alaska, and they are probably the…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Excerpted from preface: 'The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kozlowski, Ahlgren
This interdisciplinary treatment examines, in depth, both the beneficial and harmful effects of fire on temperate-zone and tropial ecosystems. Separate chapters deal with effects of fire on herbaceous and woody plants, soils, soil organisms, birds, and mammals. One treats the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
West
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Disturbance shapes the characteristics of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. As evidence mounts that disturbance influences virtually all vegetation types and levels of ecological organization, its role as a selective agent and ecosystem process has gained…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eastman
Habitat use by moose was studied in the sub-boreal spruce zone of British Columbia from 1971-1973 for dry, modal and wet environments. Comparisons between burns, cutovers and undisturbed forests were based on post-winter pellet group counts and monthly checks of tagged twig…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
The forests of interior Alaska are used for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. Multiple- or single-use management of these forests requires a working knowledge of how these uses affect the sustained yield or availability of a particular product or use. Many biotic…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The primary environmental variable that appears to regulate the function and, to some extent, the structure of Alaskan taiga ecosystems is soil temperature (Van Cleve et al. 1983, Van Cleve and Dyrness 1983). The structural and functional changes that occur in relation to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Plant communities in taiga forest ecosystems harbor an array of insects that exploit the vast biomass within these ecosystems. Phytophagous insects with associated parasites, predators, and saprophytes form a discrete insect community. Phytophagous species often differ among…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES