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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gass, Robinson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Epting, Verbyla
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodall, Williams
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of forests of the United States. A subset of FIA permanent inventory plots are sampled every year for numerous indicators of forest health ranging from soils to understory…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Travers
I conducted a field study of the annual, Clarkia unguiculata, to examine the performance of pollen (pollen-germination time and pollen-tube growth rate) produced by plants growing in two different environments: recently burned and unburned oak woodland. Previous studies on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gove, Ringvall, Stahl, Ducey
This paper presents a method based on angle-gauge sampling useful for inventorying downed coarse woody material in forest stands. The method is closely related to transect relascope sampling, except that sample points are used rather than line transects. The estimators for the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toomey, Vierling
Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire potential, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, principal components analysis (PCA), and the tasseled cap…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Fires can exert landscape-scale controls on vegetation structure and composition, permafrost dynamics, water quality, air quality, nutrient cycling, primary productivity for herbivores, and biodiversity. In addition, the natural fire regime (fire frequency, fire extent and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel, Barnes
Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned. While the extent of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodall, Lutes
Weight per unit area (load) estimates of Down Woody Material (DWM) are the most common requests by users of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program's DWM inventory. Estimating of DWM loads requires the uniform compilation of DWM transect data for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reutebuch, Andersen, McGaughey
Airborne laser scanning of forests has been shown to provide accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation. Brief overviews of airborne laser scanning…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponizovsky, Chudinova, Pachepsky
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is widely used to measure the soil water contents. The effect of soil composition on TDR calibration has to be quantified to diminish the need in re-calibration of TDR. Objectives of the study were: (a) to evaluate the ability of published models…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Major concerns after wildfires are the increased erosion and flooding potential due to loss of the protective forest floor layer, loss of water storage, and the creation of water repellent soil conditions. Treatments to mitigate postfire erosion and runoff are commonly applied…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Barnes, Horschel
This report summarizes activities from 2002-2004 undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service and cooperating agencies to better understand the influence of forest floor moisture content on fire behavior in interior Alaska boreal spruce forest. Forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Chandler, Rieman, Martin
Digital data loggers (thermographs) are among the most widespread instruments in use for monitoring physical conditions in aquatic ecosystems. The intent of this protocol is to provide guidelines for selecting and programming data loggers, sampling water temperatures in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in communities potentially at risk from wildland fire. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Alig
Forest land conditions affect the potential of U.S. forests to sustain a wide array of forest goods and environmental services (e.g., biodiversity) that society demands. Forest survey data collected by U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Users' guide to using DDWoodyPC component of the Fuels Management Analyst Plus suite of computer programs. Fuel loading and fuel bed depths can be estimated using photos contained in a number of published fuels photo series that are contained in this program. The average fuel…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES