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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hogenbirk, Wein
Drought and fire, which may increase in frequency and severity because of global warming, were simulated in mid-boreal wetlands by transplanting soil blocks upslope to a lower water table and by prescribed burns. In the 2 years after treatments were applied to seasonally flooded…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
From the Summary ... 'Wilderness is, in many ways, a uniquely New World concept. Our concepts of wilderness grew in parallel with our nineteenth century notions of frontier, the contrast of landscapes conquered by humans versus those free of human intervention. In the sense that…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Wein
Vegetation and terrain analyses of 1312 air photos spanning the subarctic, low arctic, and portions of the adjacent high boreal region of northwestern Canada permitted geographic characterization of the areal pattern of burned forest and forest-tundra vegetation. In terms of its…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burke
The review of 'relocation, repatriation and translocation' (RRT's) of amphibians and reptiles by Dodd and Seigel (1991) provides a summary of the literature on the use of these techniques for conservation purposes. Basically, the question that they attempt to answer is given…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
Wildlife managers lack a scientifically sound basis from which to formulate management policy regarding many host-parasite interactions. One contributing factor to this problem is the paucity of hypothetico-deductive (H-D) research concerning the ecological consequences of host-…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ustin, Wessman, Curtiss, Kasischke, Way, Vanderbilt
We are at an exciting juncture in ecological research due to the simultaneous emergence of several new technologies. High-powered microcomputer and workstation capabilities are now available at modest cost for image processing, new mathematical and statistical techniques for…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wickland
Finally, ecologists should consider becoming more involved in the scientific and political debates that set the priorities for Mission to Planet Earth. I wonder if the recent controversies of the United States Global Change Research Program would have been so focused on…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roughgarden, Running, Matson
Finally, it may be that ecologists only recently have become interested in processes and patterns occurring at scales amenable to remote sensing. There is a growing need to understand ecological relationships in the context of a changing world (Lubchenco et al. 1991); we hope…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Ustin
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doren, Roberts, Richardson
Fire as an ecological factor is of major importance in the distribution, species composition, and productivity of the sand pine scrub community, both in its own right and as it interacts with other factors such as animal influences, trophic factors, soil particle movement, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Cleve, Chapin, Dyrness, Viereck
An experimental approach is essential to understanding the controls on ecosystem function. An explicit focus on state factors provides a framework that logically leads to formulation and experimental testing of hypotheses. In this article, we present an evaluation of controls on…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. Pierre, Gagnon, Bellefleur
Data were collected during June-July 1988 on the regeneration of black spruce (Picea mariana) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) after an intense fire in June 1983. The main factors analysed were (i) effects of organic matter thickness on growth of the regeneration, (ii) spatial…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
The paper describes attributes of space, time, and process in terms of their relations to wildland fire. It then presents a generic framework, based on eight interrelated scale classes for space, time, and process. The effects of changing scales are discussed in a wildland fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Seip
Predation, especially wolf (Canis lupus) predation, limits many North America caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations below the density that food resources could sustain. The impact of predation depends on the parameters for the functional and numerical response of the wolves,…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
We compared characteristics of 2 black bear (Ursus americanus) populations living in middle-aged (1947 burn area) and recent (1969 burn area) burned forest stands on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, during 1982-87. Densities of bears on the 1947 (205 bears/1,000km2) and 1969 (265…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer, Pruitt
The effects of fire on the Aikens Lake population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were studied over a 2-year period. Quantity, quality, and accessibility of forages were determined in recently- burned (5-yr-old) habitats and compared to those in intermediate (37…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schaefer, Messier
Random environmental influences, such as snow cover, are widely regarded as an integral feature of caribou population dynamics. We conducted computer simulations to explore the ramifications of such stochastic variability for caribou demography. We devised 4 models with…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Hard
Forest community type was the most important variable determining risk of a spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby) outbreak. Black spruce (Picea mariana B.S.P.) communities exhibited low to moderate risk overall, but stands in these communities with deep accumulations of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pitts
Urban mass fires are relatively infrequent events which have historically resulted in immense losses of life and property. Mass fires often have occurred as the result of natural disasters or warfare. The development of nuclear weapons has increased the likelihood of urban mass…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Woodard, Quintilio, Titus
Hot-spotting containment rates were determined for 18 fires of various intensities in two common boreal forest cover types: 8 in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and 10 in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). Hot-spotting containment rates did not differ significantly…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pech
Four reindeer lichen (Cladina rangiferina (L.) Nyl) samples were placed near ground level in the open at a meteorological station where dew and other meteorological parameters were measured. One sample was covered occasionally from sunset to sunrise to prevent dew and to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Babbitt, Susott, Blakely, Hao
Because of the importance of emissions from fires in biomass fuels globally, we developed a highly portable Fire Atmosphere Sampling System (FASS) for sampling smoke emissions. Emissions were sampled with the FASS packages from a variety of fuel and combustion conditions in…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, McRae
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire characteristics chart has been expanded and modified to indicate crown fire behavior. Any point on the chart provides a simultaneous representation of rate of spread, unit energy, fireline intensity, flame length, and power of the fire. The contrast in behavior between…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McAlpine, Lawson, Taylor
Although the effects of slope and wind on fire spread rate have been well documented, their interactive effects are not as well known. Past methods have added spread rates predicted by the wind and slope separately using vector algebra. Other, simpler, methods have also been…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS