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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
1. In central Alaska, Taiga Voles live in communal groups of five to ten individuals (mean = 7.1) for eight months of the year. During this winter period, they share a common stored food cache. 2. Evidence from both field monitoring of nest temperatures and laboratory studies…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rencz, Auclair
A study of 15 lichen woodlands in the subarctic of eastern Canada indicated a strong dominance by Picea mariana and Cladonia alpestris. Mean tree density was 556 trees per hectare. Over 75% of all tree stems were Picea mariana. Picea glauca and Larix laricina were only minor…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Patterson, Dennis
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver, Van Cleve
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
Large-scale, man-created or natural disturbances play a major role in determining forest structure and species composition in many areas of North America and probably other temperate and tropical forests. Studies suggest a single group of species is not predestined to inhabit an…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alemdag, Horton
Ovendry mass of single tress of trembling aspen, largetooth aspen, and white birch in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence and Boreal forest regions in Ontario was studied in relation to stem dimensions. Mass equations for tree components based on diameter at breast height outside…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
Fire, geomorphic processes, and landforms interact to determine natural patterns of ecosystems over landscapes. Fire alters vegetation and soil properties which change soil and sediment movement through watersheds. Landforms affect fire behavior and form firebreaks which…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Olson
A theory of ecosystem succession relates the continuum of fire frequency and intensities to mean annual carbon burning in major ecosystems of the world. Low fire frequency and release of C are contrasted with combinations of (1) low frequency, high release, (2) high frequency…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson, England
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein, White
From background: 'The status of caribou herds in Alaska has recently become a focus of attention for subsistence and sport hunters, management agencies, biologists, and the general public. This is a result of the pronounced decline in recent years of the Nelchina, Fortymile,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holling
Forest fire systems are compared to the balsam/spruce budworm system. Management of both has been successful in the short term in reducing the probability of fire or preventing sudden and extensive mortality of balsam. But both have resulted in conditions highly vulnerable to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wood
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Furniss, Yarger, Ward
Traps baited with Seudenol + a-pinene caught 87 percent more eastern larch beetles, Dendroctonus simplex LeConte, than did tamarack logs infested with females. Male beetles responded to the synthetic attractant in greater numbers than females. Male beetles were not attracted to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From introduction: 'This flood hazard analyses of the Delta Study Area was requested by the State Division of Lands, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the Delta Junction Area Land-Use Planning Team. The request was the result of joint efforts between…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Barney
Forest fire statistical records to 1979 are given for Newfoundland (from 1949), Quebec (1924), Ontario (1917), Manitoba (1918), Saskatchewan (1918), Alberta (1918), Northwest Territories (1946), Yukon (1950), Alaska (1940), Sweden (1946) and Finland (1952). Figures for fire…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shank, Wilkinson, Penner
The results of analyses of rumen contents from 101 Peary caribou (Rangifer tanadus pearyi J. A. Allen 1902) collected on Banks Island are presented. Peary caribou on Banks Island were found to be versatile, broad spectrum grazers specializing on upland monocots, to ingest few…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quinlan
Small mammal trapping success generally increased with the age of the stand among mature, 40-50-yr-old, and 20-yr-old stands. Adjusted trapping success figures indicate that fewer mammals of all species captured occur in burned areas than in mature forest. However, red-backed…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES