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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hatler
Black bears in the interior of Alaska emerging from winter dens in early May spend much of the first three months of their annual active season in riverbottom and other lowland situations where the shoots and new leaves of green vegetation, especially Equisetum spp. Compose the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Oil development, tourism, and expanding human populations, are bringing about increased pressures on large mammals in the Arctic and Subarctic. Management of marine mammals requires close international cooperation, and recent protection offered to the Polar Bear on a…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
It happens to most firefighters sooner or later if they have been on the job long enough. Everything along the fireline seems fairly well controlled. But then, unexpectedly, the wind shifts and becomes erratic. Wind speed picks up dramatically for 5 to 15 minutes and then…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Forsythe, Loucks
This study develops a data-transformation method useful in correlating species importance with habitat factors. The relative basal area of six major tree species is examined in relation to data on eight environmental factors. A parabola transformation makes the dome-shaped…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dipert, Warren
A description is given of the FIRE MOUSE TRAP (FMT - Flying Infrared Enhanced Manoeuvrable Operational User Simple Electronic Tactical Reconnaissance and Patrol) system for mapping forest fires, which was first used experimentally in Alaska in 1985. Forward looking infrared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marks, Taylor
From the text... 'In an experimental plot established by the Nature Conservancy in 1957 to follow long-term effects of sheep grazing and rotational burning on Calluneto-Eriophoretum, a study of the response of R. chamaemorus to these treatments was initiated in 1969 (Taylor…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Parkinson
Respiration rates and mass losses of decomposing pine (Pinus contorta Loud. X P. banksiana Lamb.) and aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) leaf litter were compared in laboratory microcosms for a range of temperature and moisture levels. For both litter types, a pair of high-…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boring, Swank, Waide, Henderson
The relative importance of nitrogen inputs from atmospheric depositions and biological fixation is reviewed in a number of diverse, non-agricultural terrestrial ecosystems. Rates of both symbiotic and nonsymbiotic fixation appear to be greater during early succession stages of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maillette
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Gessel
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sydes, Miller
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
Fire links the biosphere and the atmosphere. The linkage is, as yet, poorly quantified. Evidence suggests that a few percent of total C fixed by photosynthesis is oxidized by burning. Biomass burning seems to be globally significant in terms of associated: • Releases of trace…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Reinhardt
We used data on 2356 trees from 43 prescribed fires in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington states to model postfire tree mortality. Data were combined for seven species of conifers to develop binary logistic regression models for predicting the probability of mortality.…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carretero
From the text...”Extinguishing forest fires must be done urgently, in most cases, using whatever tools at hand, with little time to employ mechanical methods. Making matters worse, location of the fire cannot be foreseen, nor such factors as wind direction and velocity. Passive…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS