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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pothier, Doucet, Boily
The advance regeneration often present following clear-cutting in black spruce (Picea mariana) stands is generally composed of individuals of various heights. This initial height difference is hypothesized to affect the yield of the future stand. Height of the advanced…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Merriam
The development of forests in Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario, Canada, was simulated over 150 years to investigate boreal carbon dynamics and to test the feasibility of simulating large tracts of heterogeneous boreal forest. Pukaskwa National Park, located on the north shore of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
Surface fires in wetland ecosystems frequently ignite smoldering ground fires. Ground fires often create and maintain open, shallow marshes that contribute to ecosystem diversity. Fire exclusion, drainage, deforestation, and other human activities have altered the landscape…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hogenbirk, Wein
Experiments conducted in wet-meadows in northeastern Alberta, Canada, tested hypotheses about species response to environmental changes expected during global warming. We hypothesized that (i) a lower water table would decrease abundance of the dominant mesophytic species (…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nash
The coupling of large scale weather conditions with local scale weather and fuel conditions was examined for 2551 fires and 1,537,624 lightning strikes for the May through August fire seasons of 1988, 1989, 1992, and 1993. The probability of fire occurrence was best correlated…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Atkins
Burned and unburned sites (4 ha each) of black and white spruce in interior Alaska were studied in 1993 and 1994 within and adjacent to an area burned by wildfire in 1990. The main purpose of the research was to quantify fuel consumption and carbon release during the fire.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
One of the most promising tools for reducing natural resource productivity losses due to spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby) in Alaska involves the use of semiochemicals. Results of past research and development activities on spruce beetle semiochemicals suggest a…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler, Juday
In Alaska, fire is one of the most important factor structuring the boreal forest. From the late 1950's until the early 1980's, aggressive initial attack was taken on all fires throughout Alaska whenever suppression resources were available. In effect, this created a full…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulz
There is a general tendency for increasing fuel loads in late stages of infestation for all size classes of down woody material except for the smallest size class and for rotten pieces three inches in diameter or greater. Duff depths decrease with later stages of infestation,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAlpine, Mellors
The present bibliography continues the research publication record reported in the Canadian Forest Service Report PS-X-52 (1979). When the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station and the Forest Fire Research and Forest Management Institutes were merged to form the Petawawa National…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
This study was undertaken during the summers of 1949 to 1952 to provide a better understanding of the ecological effects of forest fires in the Alaska interior. The information sought related primarily to the effects of forest fires on vegetation, but effects on soils, fur-…
Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi, Katnik
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Recent spruce beetle caused mortality and the subsequent growth releases in surviving trees probably resulted from the ongoing outbreak of bark beetles. The general similarity between the recent releases during a known beetle outbreak and earlier, turn of the century releases…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury
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Year: 1956
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Fastie, Rowland, Bigelow
A long-standing paradigm in the ecology of the Alaskan taiga states that black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] BSP) replaces white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) after several centuries of primary succession on floodplains. According to this Drury Hypothesis, autogenic…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay
Active layer changes after the 1968 forest-tundra fire at Inuvik, N.W.T., have been monitored from 1968 to 1993 at three burned and two unburned sites. In addition, a burned site has been used for field experiments on changes to the active layer. The active layer depths have…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Kershaw, MacKinnon, Pojar
From introduction and back cover: 'The boreal forest is a vast patchwork of interesting and distinctive ecosystems - from aspen forests, jack pine/lichen forests, and old growth spruce/fir forests, to waterlogged peatlands, dry rock outcrops and grasslands. The plants of these…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote, Deines
The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in interior Alaska undertook a prescribed burning program in 1985. Fire is considered a natural part of the boreal ecosystem, necessary to maintain the diversity of the habitat. Usually this is accomplished by using managed wildland fires…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cole
A graph has been constructed for determining one of five possible head fire intensity classes as well as the general type of fire (i.e., surface, intermittent crown or continuous crown) for Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System Fuel Type C-2 (Boreal Spruce) based on…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French
Techniques are described for locating and estimating the areas of fires in the boreal forests of Alaska using satellite imagery from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The basis for these techniques is the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, French, Bourgeau-Chavez, Christensen
An improved method to estimate the amounts of carbon released during fires in the boreal forest zone of Alaska in 1990 and 1991 is described. This method divides the state into 64 distinct physiographic regions and estimates areal extent of five different land covers: two forest…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Werner, DeVelice
The spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), has had a major effect on the spruce forests of southcentral Alaska. In one area of the Chugach National Forest, 51% of the Lutz spruce, Picea lutzii Little, or nearly 90% of the commercial stand volume was killed by spruce…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES