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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Shaw
Yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is a valuable tree species that is experiencing an extensive forest decline on over 200,000 ha of unmanaged forest in southeast Alaska. Biotic factors appear secondary and some abiotic factor is probably the primary cause of this…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hogg
Four species of boreal forest conifers (Picea glauca, P. mariana, Larix laricina and Pinus banksiana) share a similar southern limit of natural distribution in the three Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) of western Canada. The southern boundaries of boreal…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Efremova, Efremov
Four stages of thermal degradation of peat are distinguished in the southern taiga subzone of western Siberia; the stages are determined by the types of fires and their intensity. Fire strongly affects compaction of peat, which leads to a significant increase in stores of ash…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Barker
Changing abundances of taxa in the pollen record of northeastern Alaska contain a climate signal and may be compared with GCM simulations of paleo climates. Cold, dry conditions indicated by full-glacial pollen spectra are in broad agreement with model simulations. Successive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeVelice, Queitzsch, Holsten
Species richness did not change on burned plots but declined 24% on the non-burned plots. Compositional changes resulted in changed vegetation types for about one half of both the burned and not-burned plots. It appears that regeneration requirements (e.g., mineral soil) for…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Racine, Walsh
The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, MacLellan
The woody vegetation that developed after clear felling and logging 131 stands dominated by Picea mariana was compared with that of stands that developed after fire in boreal forests of Ontario. Each dataset represents a stand chronosequence on a range of substrates.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Charron
Arboreal succession in the southern boreal forest of QuTbec was documented through a dendroecological analysis of a mid-successional stand originating from fire 75 years ago. The studied stand was located in the forest surrounding Lake Duparquet, south of Lake Abitibi in…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Spraker, Taylor
During spring 1977 and 1978, 136 moose (Alces alces gigas) calves were radio-collared in the Nelchina and Susitna river basins of south central Alaska in an effort to determine causes of mortality. Thirteen calves (9.5%) died as a result of collaring activities. Of the 123…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
This article explores the evidence for monoterpenes to alter rates of nutrient cycling, with particular emphasis on the nitrogen (N) cycle, from an ecosystem perspective. The general N cycle is reviewed and particular processes are noted where monoterpenes could exert control.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dignon, Atherton, Penner, Walton
We present estimates of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission from worldwide biomass burning totaling ~13 Tg N yr-1 on a 1 degree longitude by 1 degree latitude grid. Roughly 80 percent of these emissions occur in the zone from 25N to 25 degrees S. The inventory presented here is…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connell, Raison, Khanna, Woods
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willms, Bailey, McLean, Kalnin
We examined the effects of fall clipping or burning on chemical constituents and their distribution in bluebunch wheatgrass the following spring. The study was made in both a big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass and a Douglas fir-bluebunch wheatgrass community. The concentration…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arianoutsou, Margaris
After a fire in a phryganic ecosystem, the nutreint losses in above-ground plant biomass, in nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were quantitatively different. The most important is that of nitrogen (96%), followed by magnesium (59%),…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freedman, Morash, Hanson
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lowe, Klinka
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodmansee
The effects of fire on the biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems are considered: (1) the effects on the abiotic controlling factors (temperature, H-ion concentration, ex- changeable bases, available water, and light); (2) the initial, or direct, effects; and (3) the postfire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brustet, Benech, Waldteufel
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodcock, Wells
It is possible to delimit the areas of the North, Central, and South America that are most susceptible to fire and would have been most affected by burning practices of early Americans. Areas amounting to approximately 155 x 105 km² are here designated as the most burnable part…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evaluating the type and state of Alaska taiga forests with imaging radar for use in ecosystem models
Changes in the seasonal CO2 flux of the boreal forests may result from increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations and associated global warming patterns. To monitor this potential change, a combination of information derived from remote sensing data, including forest type and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES