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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Campbell, Hinkes
The North American bison (Bison bison) was common in Alaska until 200 to 300 years ago (Skinner and Kaisen 1947, McDonald 1978). Reasons for its extripation are not known although climate and habitat changes may have played a major role. The species was reintroduced to Alaska in…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bulmer
(1) The main features of the ten-year cycle are the regularity of the period and the irregularity of the amplitude of the oscillations; these features are obvious in data on the lynx cycle, and in the correlogram and periodogram calculated from the data. (2) A statistical model…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bishop, Rausch
Moose population status, trends in productivity, survival and abundance monitored by aerial surveys and other means in four Alaskan study areas during 1950-1972 are reviewed. Moose numbers were high or increasing from 1950 to 1960 in all areas studied due to extensive and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud, Nolan, Curnew, Mercer
The Avalon Peninsula caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd in Newfoundland increased from 720 animals in 1967 to 3,000 animals in 1979, a mean rate of increase of r=0.12. The mean adult sex ratio was 39 males: 61 females and 73% of females were parous. Calf recruitment averaged 25%…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
Information on the winter feeding behavior of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Newfoundland and the relative abundance of food available to them in winter are presented. Sight and smell were used to locate food beneath the snow. Tall shrubs showing above the snow begin to increase…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergerud
The numbers of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in North America generally declined in the 1800s and early 1900s. Four hypotheses are discussed relative to this decline: (I) numbers decreased because of a shortage of lichen supplies caused by the destruction of lichen pastures by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Kemperman
A severe infestation of spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby.) in a white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss)-paper birch (Betula papyrifera var.) stand caused 64.6 percent mortality of spruce 5 inches d.b.h. and larger where the infestation was completed. Survival of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Duvvuri
From the Introduction:'The technique selected for measuring the pyrolysis energy involved the use of the Perkin-Elmer DSC-2 Differential Scanning Calorimeter and TS-1 Thermogravimetric Balane. The TGS-1 also used a Cahn Time Derivative Computer to provide the rate of weight loss…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeJong, Klinkhamer
In this paper, a simulation model is presented for nutrient cycling in heathland ecosys- tems. The results of simulations are compared with field data of phosphorus and nitrogen accumulation in different compartments of the system in the years after burning, given in the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dyrness, Norum
Seven units (about 2 ha each) of black spruce - feather moss forest were experimentally burned over a range of fuel moisture conditions during the summer of 1978. Surface woody fuels were sparse and the principal carrier fuel was the forest floor (largely mosses and their…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Connel, Menage
Rates of weight loss and release of N, P, K, S, Ca, Mg, Na, and Cl from litter of several species in jarrah (E. marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest were measured in relation to site fire history and soil type. Weight loss from leaf litter decreased in the order jarrah > marri (E.…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daubenmire
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morrison
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Russell, Fraser, Watson, Parsons
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schaeffer
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... '...[B]efore discussing these four questions in more detail let me further show that forest fires are of a very ancient lineage and that their particulates have been a part of the natural atmosphere for milleniums. ....Now to the questions:1. Are the carbon…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS