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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Shugart, Leemans, Bonan
The boreal forests of the world, geographically situated to the south of the Arctic and generally north of latitude 50 degrees, are considered to be one of the earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems in terms of their potential for interaction with other global scale…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie
Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. As the lands began to emerge from under the ice, they provided a large, varied setting for the re-…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a fire dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any technical detail how forests fires produce effects on individual plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the casual connection between the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernam
Description not entered.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Reynolds, Dean, Miller
Satellite imagery is a valuable tool for environmental monitoring of natural and man-made events. Analysis of imagery within a few hours is vital if these data are to be used to respond to rapidly changing conditions. Since April of 1982 Landsat imagery from the Quick-Look…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette
Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various disturbance regimes operating at a different spatial and temporal scales (Loucks 1970; White 1979; Bormann & Likens 1979b; Delcourt, Delcourt & Webb 1983). The development of temperate…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
Forest insect and disease populations and related damage increased throughout Alaskan forests in 1991. Spruce bark beetle populations increased for the third consecutive year. 375,000 acres were impacted in 1991. Hardwood defoliator activity increased for the second year and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holling
[Intro first paragraph] Human activities are increasingly affecting the relation between the biota and the physical environment. That has long been true of resource developments that have transformed vegetation on a regional scale. Now, however, the scale of human influence has…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Heavy grazing by extremely high densities of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea resulted in degradation of the lichen stands. Grasses, sedges, and other vascular plants initially increased in response to the removal of lichens under heavy…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell, Christensen
Initial observations on effects of wildfires in black spruce [Picea mariana] forests in Alaska on radar backscatter are presented. Airborne and spaceborne SAR imagery are utilized to illustrate two distinct fire signatures. A theory is presented to explain these differences.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Results are reported from observations on the characteristics and population dynamics of the principal climax species, Picea glauca, made in summer 1985 near Chitina. Data are presented on vegetation types (transect profiles), density of woodland (point-centred quarter technique…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Models for moose density were developed using subsets of remotely sensed habitat variables in north-central Alaska. Macro-habitat factors explained from 60-70% of the variation in November moose densities using a regression model. Use of logistic regression allowed correct…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Success of spruce beetle attacks in pruned and unpruned boles of Lutz spruce in south-central Alaska
Pruning live branches from different heights and sides on the boles of long-crowned Lutz spruce (Picea + lutzii Little) baited with frontalin reduced successful spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby) attacks in pruned sections of most trees. The benefits of pruning seemed…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hard
Two stands of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), one on a south aspect and one on a north aspect on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, were sampled intensively to determine site and host variables associated with high attack densities by spruce beetle, Dendroctonus…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Delin
Taiga dominates the northern two-thirds of Sweden. In the province of Halsingland it covers 83% of the land area, but only 0.01% of this is virgin forest. The vascular flora of the main part of the taiga is dominated by a few species. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Norway…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chambers
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, Wannamaker
Using age-structure determinations on both living and dead stems in censused plots, coupled with stem analysis techniques, an historical picture of mortality and above-ground tree stem growth was recreated for ten stands dominated by black spruce in northeastern Ontario, Canada…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunting, Lundberg
This field and microscope study explores the micromorphological changes occurring in humus profiles of the Canadian boreal forest which have been variously affected by factors of disturbance: fire, dehydration and overland flow after storms. It compares the materials and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayley, Schindler, Beaty, Parker, Stainton
Wildfire in the boreal forests at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario caused significant losses of nitrogen and phosphorus in streams. Both watershed type and fire intensity appear to determine the extent of losses. The Northeast wetland basin lost more N and P, especially…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of slash-burning on the nutrient status of two Sub-Boreal. Spruce zone ecosystems in the west central interior of British Columbia. The slash, forest floor and mineral soil (0—15 cm depth) in these ecosystems were sampled for…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Janna, Hannu
'Fires are natural in boreal coniferous forest ecosystems, occuring every 100-200 years. Burning of the humus and forest vegetation (mainly spruce and understory) raises the pH of the humus of the podzolic soil and leads to new succession of the forest plant community. The…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stahl, Persson
Provenance variation in Picea mariana (Mill) B.S.P. (Black spruce) seedlings was studied to provide recommendations for introducing the species into Scandinavia. Provenances were analysed in a series of tests covering root and shoot development, and mineral nutrient (N. P and K…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trowbridge, Holl
An overdense logdepole pine (Pinus contorta) stand was knocked down and the site was prepared by broadcast burn, windrow burn, or mechanical forest floor removal. Inoculated alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum) was seeded at 0, 10, 20, and 30 kg/ha for the three different site…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS