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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands. (2) Macrofossil analysis of more humus profiles in…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fetcher
The effect of removal of moss and low-growing shrubs on the growth of the tussock-forming cotton sedge Eriophorum vaginatum was studied at Eagle Creek in central Alaska. Shrubs and/or moss were removed from heavily infested tussocks with greater or lesser amounts of self-shading…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Tree ring patterns in white spruce (Picea glauca) and Sitka spruce (P. sitchensis) from 6 sites on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska document a widespread disturbance that killed overstory trees between 1880 and 1920. During this period 18-80% of trees in sampled stands record a ring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fancy, White
The rate of energy expenditure by caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) digging in snow for lichens was determined by heart rate telemetry and an analysis of cratering mechanics. Based on significant linear relationship between energy expenditure and heart rate, the mean cost per…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cogbill
Analyses of species composition and tree increment cores from 145 stands in central Quebec were used to study the forest history and stand dynamics. Windspread fires, possibly synchronous, burned across central Quebec in at least 3 periods of record (1661-1663, 1779-1791 and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Bangs, Duff, Bailey
Two large burns, one in 1947 (125,000 ha) and another in 1969 (35,000 ha), produced excellent moose (Alces alces) habitat believed responsible for up to 6.6 moose/kilometers squared on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. The fire in 1969 burned during much hotter and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Van Meter, George, Johnson
The report describes chemical analysis procedures developed and/or in use at the lntermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory to determine the quantitative composition of fire retardant mixtures. These mixtures contain inorganic salts, coloring agents, and inhibitors of spoilage and…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Belyea, Warner
We examined short-term (decadal) and long-term (millenial) processes of peat accumulation, and the links between them, in a Sphagnum bog in continental Canada. A previously published model of bog growth was fitted to age profiles of the oxic acrotelm (surface, <60 cm thick)…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Korhola, Virkanen, Tikkanen, Blom
1 The effects of catchment fire on lake Pieni Majaslampi are examined by means of geochemical, charcoal, pollen, and diatom analyses of surface sediments. Particular emphasis is paid to pH responses in this naturally acid, weakly buffered, small-catchment lake. 2 An increase of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Knicker, Almendros, Gonzalez-Vila, Martin, Ludemann
Sructural changes in lignocellulosic biomass heated under conitions comparable to those encountered in several types of natural or planned burnings have been studied by solid-state 13C- and 15N-CPMAS NMR spectroscopy of 15N-MNR spectra of biomass subjected to severe heating…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dormaar, Schaber
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Kurz, Apps, Comeau, Trofymow
The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2) is a national-scale model of forest sector carbon (C) pools and fluxes. This model has been applied to conduct a retrospective analysis of the C budget of the forests of British Columbia for the period 1920- 1989.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Swanson
Some soils with permafrost thawed deeply and become drier after forest fires, while others changed little. Soils with permafrost on the coldest and wettest landscape positions (concave to plane, lower slope positions, and north-facing midslopes) usually failed to thaw deeply…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mazurek, Laterza, Newman, Daum, Cofer, Levine, Winstead
In this study we examine the molecular organic constituents (C8 to C40 lipid compounds) collected as smoke particles from a Canadian boreal forest prescribed burn. Of special interest are (1) the molecular identity of polar organic aerosols, and (2) the amount of polar organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kasischke
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kambis, Levine
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kellomäki, Karjalainen
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES