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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Smith
Observations were made on Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in mature Picea glauca forest during 2 years of cone crop failure. For the first winter an adequate supply of old Spruce cones cached in previous years was available. The second crop failure brought about a 67% drop in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pegau
The average annual linear rates of growth of Cladonia alpestris, C. rangiferina and C. sylvatica on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, were determined to be 5.0, 5.3, and 5.4 mm, respectively. These averages are higher than those of northern Canada and some areas in the U.S.S.R.…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Kryuchkov
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Year: 1968
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
Smith
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)]This paper deals with investigations which concentrated on certain aspects of the direct and indirect effects of surface fire on the soil in the jack pine barren community in northern Ontario…
Year: 1968
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
Lynham, Stocks
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
Reviews the subject of lightning fires in N. America, and designates 7 lightning fire bioclimatic regions: southern Pine forest, eastern deciduous forest, central grasslands, boreal forest, tundra, western mountain complex, and tropical rain forest.
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
Notes (Do Not Cite): Listing of 6 factors complicating fire behavior prediction in insect-damaged spruce stands on the Kenai Peninsula. Fire behavior observations from the Pothole Lake fire of May 1991. In early spring prior to greenup a crown fire in mixed live/dead standing…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES