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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Late holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

Payette, Gagnon
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Current practices and recent advances in prescribed burning

Van Lear, Waldrop
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aerial ignition: ping pong balls

Gnann
Aerial ignition using plastic spheres (similar to ping-pong balls) charged with potassium permanganate activated by ethylene glycol and dropped from a low flying helicopter is a proven system to safely prescribe burn large areas in a short time for rough reduction and site…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildlife and fire research: past, present, and future

Komarek
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Delayed emergence of four conifer species on postfire seedbeds in eastern Canada

Thomas, Wein
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada

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 mor humus profiles in mature…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire return rates on traversability of lodgepole pine forests for mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and the use of patch metrics to estimate traversability

Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Methyl mercury concentrations in macroinvertebrates and fish from burned and undisturbed lakes on the Boreal Plain

Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Zhang
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of conifer and broad-leaved trees and shrubs to wildfire and clearcut logging in the boreal forests of central labrador

Simon, Schwab
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands, U.S.A

Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Responses of diversity and invasibility to burning in a northern oak savanna

MacDougall
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Afterburn

Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba, Canada

Girardin, Tardif
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of mammals to forest fire and timber harvest in the North American boreal forest

Fisher, Wilkinson
1. This paper reviews and compares the effects of forest fire and timber harvest on mammalian abundance and diversity, throughout successional time in the boreal forest of North America. 2. Temporal trends in mammal abundance and diversity are generally similar for both…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Alaska Interagency Fire Research Needs September 2005

The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005.  The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members.  Ranking was as follows:  3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Developing fuel models for the Anchorage wildland-urban interface using a forest inventory

Cheyette
I inventoried the forests of the Anchorage wildland-urban interface and created a hierarchical classification of twenty forest types differentiated according to tree species, tree and basal area densities and degree of spruce bark beetle mortality. The inventory included the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A model for fire spread in wildland fuels by radiation

Albini
Fire spread in wildland fuels is modeled as the steady, longitudinal propagation of an isothermal surface at ignition temperature by the process of radiation transport through a uniform layer of randomly-distributed, thermally-thin, radiometrically-black fuel particles. The…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The boreal forest references including Alaska, interior and northern Canada and Vancouver Island

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

General North America references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Shifting cultivators and deforestation: the case of Borneo's forest fires

Mackie
During late 1982 and early 1983 wild fires swept through more than 3.5 Mha in the lowlands of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The immediate causes of the conflagration were a combination of severe drought, destructive logging practices, and slash and burn agriculture. Although the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Timber net value and physical output changes following wildfire in the northern Rocky Mountains: estimates for specific fire situations

Flowers, Shinkle, Cain, Mills
'Estimates of the timber net value change and timber output change resulting from wildfre were calculated for 9828 situation-specific fire and management conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains. After slight aggregation across the less sensitive situation parameters,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS