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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
Kryuchkov
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Year: 1968
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
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
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
Simard
From the introduction (page 2): 'The critical factor as to whether the duration or amount of precipitation is limiting with respect to absorption of water is the maximum rate of absorption by the fuels. The purpose of the present study is to determine the rate at which various…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the introduction (page 5): 'The present paper is the first of a series dealing with forest fuel moisture. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide regression equations for estimating forest fuel moisture directly from antecedent and current weather observations. This…
Year: 1968
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
Patric, Black
From introduction: 'Long ago, Fernow wrote concerning 'the desirability of utilizing the Weather Bureau, the various agricultural experiment stations, and other forces, in forming a systematic service of water stations, and in making a careful survey of the conditions of water…
Year: 1968
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
Kelsall
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002 (https://www.frames.gov/catalog/18093)] Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In…
Year: 1968
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
Crosby, Curtis
Spruce bettle remains at epidemic levels in area of the Kenai Peninsula and areas of activity were noted in the Copper River Valley. Large aspen tortix was common throughout interior Alaska. Hemlock sawfly declined sharply in southeast Alaska. Black-headed budworm populations…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
In this report, we have presented spread index and buildup index frequency information for selected stations in Alaska. Also, methods to extract and utilize the information were discussed. In doing this, we have provided another tool for the fire planners in Alaska. The tool…
Year: 1968
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