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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnson, Wowchuk
In this paper we present evidence for a large-scale (synoptic-scale) meteorological mechanism controlling the fire frequency in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. This large-scale control may explain the similarity in average fire frequencies and timing of change in average…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
A study was made of buried seeds in 62 cylindrical cores of litter and soil (10 cm diameter X 10 cm depth) collected from 10 sites, on which fires had occurred 42-180 years previously, on upland soil with a vegetation of lichen woodland and a tree canopy of Picea mariana, P.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kevan, Tikhmenev, Usui
Pollination systems in the boreal zone range from generalist to specialist, both entomologically and botanically. The relative importance of wind pollination, insect pollination, sexual separation between and within plants, and between flowers, hermaphroditism of flowers, and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Because organisms have adapted to the natural disturbance regimes o f forest ecosystems such as fires and windfalls, conservationists often suggest that timber harvesting systems be designed to imitate natural disturbance regimes. Using the crown fires that shape true boreal…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Brubaker, Anderson
Pollen, plant-macrofossil, macroscopic-charcoal, and geochemical analyses of a sediment core from Wien Lake provide new information on the late Quaternary environmental history of central Alaska. Shrub tundra dominated by Betula glandulosa occupied the area 12 000 - 10 500 BP.…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gara, Holsten
Preliminary biological studies of arctic Scolytidae were carried out during a scientific expedition of northwestern Alaska. Eight scolytid species were found associated with Picea glauca and a significant range extension for Dendroctonus punctatus was noted. Ips borealis host…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritzell
Agricultural burning in an intensively farmed region within Manitoba's pothole district is shown to affect the nesting activities of ground-nesting ducks. All species, except Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors), preferred unburned nest cover, although success was higher in burned…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engelmark
Age and size structures of saplings of Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris and Betula pubescens were examined in a 26yr old forest fire area in a Picea abies-Vaccinium myrtillus forest in northern Sweden. Picea, which is a shade-tolerant species, had its maximum regeneration prior to…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison
An intense fire occurring on a previously established study area in August 1969 reduced the subsequent spring breeding density of spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis) by about 60 percent. At least 35 percent of the adults using the burn in spring-summer 1970 were birds that…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crête, Huot
The range used for calving and for the first month of lactation by the Riviere George Caribou Herd (RGH), which peaked at over 600,000 individuals in the mid-eighties, showed signs of overgrazing, in contrast to that used by the adjacent Riviere aux Feuilles Herd. Density of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Degrandpré, Gagnon, Bergeron
We investigated changes in the composition and abundance of understory species after fire in the southern boreal forest around Lake Duparquet, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled in each of eight sites varying in post-fire age from 26 to 230 yr, with 20 1-m2 quadrats in each…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Dansereau
Post-fire succession was reconstructed for a sector located in the southern part of the Quebec boreal forest. Forest composition for different periods since fire was evaluated using a stand initiation map together with ecological maps representing both site conditions and stand…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brotak
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[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions during and after burning may have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
As
Modern forestry has changed the fire dynamics in the boreal forest, and as a result the size and number of deciduous forest patches have been reduced as well as the number of deciduous trees within coniferous forests. This has exaggerated the insularity of deciduous forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Redmann, Romo, Pylypec
Grassland communities dominated by Festuca scabrella or by Stipa curtiseta and Agropyron dasystachyum were burned experimentally in spring or autumn. Forb, shrub and graminoid biomasses were greater in the unburned Festuca community than in the Stipa-Agropyron type. Spring and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
'This Symposium comprises several interrelated parts aimed at familiarizing chemists, physicists, engineers and managers with the latest developments in all aspects of flammability and fire retardants. My assigned topic suggests that my presentation should accomplish this task…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fritze, Pennanen, Pietikainen
Development of humus layer soil microbial biomass C (Cmic) and N (Nmic), fungal biomass (as soil ergosterol content), microbial respiration activity, and the soil organic C (Corg) and N (Ntot) were determined in coniferous forest soils that had received a single prescribed fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leahey, Hansen, Schroeder
Fire fighters in Canada's navy must undergo regular training with fires from simulated helicopter crashes. Visible emissions from these fires often create health concerns in surrounding communities. This paper presents air quality implications of plume dispersion associated with…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pietikainen, Fritze
During a 3-year study, soil microbial biomass C and N, length of the fungal hyphae, soil respiration, and the percent mass loss of needle litter were recorded in coniferous forest soil humus layers following a prescribed burning (PB) treatment or a forest fire simulation (FF)…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roder, Calvert, Dorji
Grass fallow shifting cultivation is an important land use practice in the highlands of Bhutan. Part of the nutrient pool contained in soil organic matter is made available for the traditional buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) crop through a highly labor intensive system exposing…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wollum, Davey
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hart, DeByle
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates indicate that the entire reion…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS