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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hagen
From the text ... 'We had absolutely no knowledge of this firefighting business and were literally conscripted into service.... 'Come with us' were our orders.... This would be the last good night's sleep we would get for nearly 2 weeks.... After several days, our confidence and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park. Prescribed fire use is a tool available to modify aspen forests, yet clearly understanding its potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Middleton, van Diggelen, Jensen
Question: How does seed dispersal reduce fen isolation and contribute to biodiversity? Location: European and North American fens. Methods: This paper reviews the literature on seed dispersal to fens. Results: Landscape fragmentation may reduce dispersal opportunities thereby…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branson, Joern, Sword
Grasshoppers are insect herbivores common to grassland ecosystems worldwide. They comprise important components of biodiversity, contribute significantly to grassland function, and periodically exhibit both local and large-scale outbreaks. Because of grasshoppers' potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Stirling, Kochtubajda
The effects of forest fires on polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternity denning habitat in western Hudson Bay were determined by comparing the physical characteristics of 48 burned and 101 unburned maternity den sites from September 2001 to October 2003. Fire significantly altered…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boulanger, Sirois
Saproxylic succession in fire-killed black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.] coarse woody debris (CWD) in northern Quebec is estimated in this study using a 29-yr postfire chrono-sequence. Sampling was performed using both trunk-window traps and rearing from snag and log…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on hydrological and geomorphological…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fricker, Chen, Wang
The age structure of a stand provides an understanding of important ecological processes taking place during stand development. The age of trees has been estimated by historical records, estimation from tree size, ring counting at breast height and ground level, pith node…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stark, Arsenault, Bradfield
Relationships between soil seed banks and aboveground understory vegetation were examined in dry Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Beissn.) Franco) forests near Kamloops, British Columbia, to compare the effects of different disturbance types (low and high severity fires and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dalle, De Blois
Shifting cultivation systems, one of the most widely distributed forms of agriculture in the tropics, provide not only crops of cultural significance, but also medicinal, edible, ritual, fuel, and forage resources, which contribute to the livelihoods, health, and cultural…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dale, Gerlak
Increasingly, performance measurement is being used to hold federal agencies accountable, represent environmental progress, and evaluate the effectiveness of environmental programs. The need to track measurable outputs has created a tendency to present programmatic progress…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cortright, Craigmill
In vitro putative cytochrome P450 3A mediated activity, and inhibition thereof, were measured in four avian species using midazolam (MDZ) as a substrate and ketoconazole as an inhibitor. All species produced 1-hydroxymidazolam (1-OH MDZ) to a much greater extent than 4-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Villalobos-Pietrini, Amador-Munoz, Waliszewski, Hernandez-Mena, Munive-Colin, Gomez-Arroyo, Bravo-Cabrera, Frias-Villegas
A year-long sampling and analysis of 24 h airborne particles equal to or less than 10 mm (
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodall, Perry, Miles
A relative stand density assessment technique, using the mean specific gravity of all trees in a stand to predict its maximum stand density index (SDI) and subsequently its relative stand density (current SDI divided by maximum SDI), was used to estimate the relative density of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cummer, Painter
Fire regimes in North America, including the American Southwest, have undergone relatively dramatic shifts in the last century, resulting in novel stand-replacing fires, which are changing landscapes in unprecedented ways. We investigated some possible effects of these landscape…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro, Bixler, Chu, Dent, Frisch, Guinane, Jackson, Johnson, Joy, Lin, Moscovitch, Sinkfield
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, working with relevant state entities, provide more specific guidance on when to use particular cost-sharing methods and clarify the financial responsibilities for fires that burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Fowler, Bollea, Koralab, Lacey, Shulman, Murphy
From the text ... 'In recent years it has become clear that past fire suppression policies have not worked as effectively as was once thought. In fact, they have had major unintended consequences, particularly on federally owned lands. For decades the federal wildland fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Cyr, Drever, Flannigan, Gauthier, Kneeshaw, Lauzon, Leduc, Le Goff, Lesieur, Logan
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Law, Stohl
Notable warming trends have been observed in the Arctic. Although increased human-induced emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases are certainly the main driving factor, air pollutants, such as aerosols and ozone, are also important. Air pollutants are transported to the Arctic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abbott, Alexander, MacLean, Leblon, Beck, Staples
We assessed how well the fuel moisture codes of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System can be used to predict forest floor moisture in burned and in mature, unburned jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands in Canada's Northwest Territories. Moisture content sampled at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hebblewhite, Merrill, Morgantini, White, Allen, Bruns, Thurston, Hurd
There is growing concern that populations of migratory ungulates are declining globally. Causes of declines in migratory behavior can be direct (i.e., differential harvest of migrants) or indirect (i.e., habitat fragmentation or land-use changes). Elk (Cervus elaphus) are an…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
The timing of white spruce regeneration in aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) - white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) boreal mixedwood stands is an important factor in stand development. We examined boreal mixedwood stands representing a 59-year period of time since fire and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nasiatka, Christenson
From the text ... 'Wildland fuels programs around the country are faced with periodic review and evaluations.... The Lessons Learned Center cooperated with Harvard Business School as it developed the first of its kind organizational learning survey to help individuals and units…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dether, Black
From the text ... 'Our intent is to identify potential 'weak signals' or 'early warding signs' that fire use practitioners might want to heed as they prepare for future fire use and suppression events....If we can train ourselves to notice and respond to surprises early -- while…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS