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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sirois, Ashmore
ANNOTATION: The principal focus of biomass harvesting in the past has been the use of chipping systems to reduce a wide variety of woody materials down to small pieces for easier handling and transporting. However, chipping systems have several short comings that limit their…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a software tool available to forest managers to evaluate stand density management alternatives. FVS is widely used in the United States for this and other purposes. Use of FVS in Canada is limited because metric based variants calibrated…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horn, Medema, Schuster
Since its introduction in 1979, CHEAPO, a computer based economic analysis program, has allowed users of the Stand Prognosis Model to evaluate silvicultural alternatives from an economic point of view. Subsequent modifications to the Prognosis Model have rendered CHEAP0 obsolete…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wykoff
Differences between Prognosis Model versions 4.0 and 5.0 are described. Additions to version 5.0 include an event monitor that schedules activities contingent on stand characteristics, a regeneration establishment model that predicts the structure of the regeneration stand…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sohngen, Mendelsohn, Neilson
This paper compares transient carbon fluxes to and from forests during climatic change in a pure natural model of ecosystem adjustment and also in a model that captures the human response to these changes. Both models incorporate forest dieback and regeneration, forest…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shriner, Street, Ball, D'Amours, Duncan, Kaiser, Maarouf, Mortsch, Mulholland, Neilson, Patz, Scheraga, Titus, Vaughan, Weltz
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Prentice, Smith, Kittel, Viner
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Drapek
Feedback interactions between terrestrial vegetation and climate could alter predictions of the responses of both systems to a doubling of atmospheric CO2. Most previous analysis of biosphere responses to global warming have used output from equilibrium simulations of current…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Brugnach, Neilson
This paper presents the changes in vegetation distribution and hydrological balance resulting from a change in soils input data to the biogeography model MAPSS (Neilson 1995). The model was run for the conterminous United States using three different sets of soil characteristics…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alvarado, Sandberg, Pickford
Large wildfires can have significant impacts on natural, social, and economic systems. Future climatic scenarios call for an increase in the risk of more severe fires in western forest. Most forest fires are small and do little damage, but they do not occur frequently. In…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Predictions of wildland fire behavior are used in various aspects of fire management: prescribed fire planning, presuppression planning, real-time fire suppression activities. Methods for calculating fire behavior covered here represent continued improvement of the packaging of…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Baker, Peterson, Peet
Disturbance events vary in intensity, size, and frequency, but few opportunities exist to study those that are extreme on more than one of these gradients. This article characterizes successional processes that occur following infrequent disturbance events that are exceptional…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foster, Knight, Franklin
We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)-fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods-in terms of the physical processes involved, the damage patterns they create in forested landscapes, and the potential impacts of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Dale
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall
Fire is a prevalent natural disturbance in most of British Columbia's forest ecosystems. Recently, scientists and forest managers have recognized the important role fire plays in regulating forest ecosystems and maintaining biodiversity. In response, B.C. Government initiatives…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary, Ffolliott
A comprehensive exploration of the effects of fires-in forests and other environments-on soils, watersheds, vegetation, air and cultural resources.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire area and perimeter length tables for Canadian forest fire behavior prediction system fuel types
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zoltai, Morrissey, Livingston, de Groot
Boreal peatlands occupy about 1.14 x 106 km2 in North America. Fires can spread into peatlands, burning the biomass, and if moisture conditions permit, burning into the surface peat. Charred layers in peat sections reveal that historically bogs in the subhumid continental…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zasada, Norum
Broadcast burning following harvesting of flood plain sites in Alaska substantially decreased residual organic material and increased exposed mineral soil. Two forest types were studied: white spruce/alder/feathermoss and white spruce/alder/lingenberry/feathermoss. The latter…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Marty
A group of wild moose from Manitoba, Canada, were documented as having excessive tooth wear. Replicas of one incisor tooth were collected from 16 individuals and from 19 controls for comparison by volumetric and scanning electron microscopic analysis. All animals were aged from…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, McCabe
Researchers have debated the effect of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) and associated developments to caribou (Rangifer tarandus) of the central Arctic herd (CAH) since the 1970s. Several studies have demonstrated that cows and calves of the CAH avoided the TAP corridor because…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Viereck, Van Cleve, Adams
From introduction: 'Forests found on interior Alaskan floodplains are some of the most productive in the taiga (Neiland and Vierick 1978), although they cover only a small portion of the total 45,900,000 ha of boreal forest in the interior Alaska. The high primary productivity…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES