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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Timoney
The subhumid boreal forest of western Canada is different today from what it was 25 years ago. Before the 1950s, the main human impacts on this forest were agricultural expansion, escaped settlement fires, and high-grade logging. The latter half of the 20th Century saw increased…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Qaderi, Cavers
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enright, Miller, Perry
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nakamura, Woodard, Bach
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Rocky outcrops represent about 30% of the boreal forest of Abitibi, Québec, Canada. Although these outcrops have similar edaphic and climatic conditions, their vegetation can vary. Some are composed of a closed forest of black spruce (Picea mariana) and eastern white cedar (…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Asselin, Payette, Fortin, Vallee
Aim: Present northern distribution limit of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) follows the northern limit of continuous open boreal forest in western Canada, but not in eastern Canada where it is located further south. We tested the hypothesis that fire plays a more important…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnstone, Chapin
Because species affect ecosystem functioning, understanding migration processes is a key component of predicting future ecosystem responses to climate change. This study provides evidence of range expansion under current climatic conditions of an indigenous species with strong…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podur, Martell, Csillag
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mazzucchi, Spooner, Gilbert, Osborn
Sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, an alpine tarn in the Cassiar Mountains of northwestern British Columbia, were investigated for changes in pollen, plant macro-fossils, charcoal, and clastic sediment, which are used to infer changes in climate throughout the Holocene.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Defossé, Rodriguez
From the text ... 'This chapter focuses on the practical, management implications of the fire and climate change research that is reported in the earlier chapters of this volume. We start with an overview of fire management goals and strategies, and then draw some parallels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by a survey of personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG in 2003. The topics were prioritized as High, Medium, or Low by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and Application Committee (FRDAC)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel, Mutch
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
From the text ... 'The most important thing to record is the position of the head fire at various times--the more observations, the better.'
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellerin, Lavoie
Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) colonization and expansion in ombrotrophic peatlands of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, southeastern Quebec, was analyzed using macrofossil and dendrochronological analyses. During the last 80 years, and mainly between 1920 and 1945, several open…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Alvarado
From the Conclusion ... 'Our objective was to infer the drivers of temporal variation in fire regiimes in pine-oak forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. We reconstructed a multicentury history (1772-1994) of the occurrence of surface fires from 1469…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Finney
From the Conclusion ... 'A comprehensive, mechanistic simulation of wildland fire and ecosystem dynamics across a landscape may not be possible because of computer limitations, inadequate research, inconsistent data, and extensive parameterization. Therefore empirical and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lynch, Hu
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Falk
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berg, Henry, De Volder
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Han, Viau, Anctil
Wildfires are important in regions dominated by forest, such as found in large parts of Canada. The principal objective of this study was to provide homogeneously distributed indices for the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FWI was calculated using four sets of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Rupp, Starfield, DeWilde, Zavaleta, Fresco, Henkelman, McGuire
The development of policies that promote ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability requires collaboration between natural and social scientists. We present a modeling approach to facilitate this communication and illustrate its application to studies of wildfire in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davidson, Williamson, Parkins
Much research attention regarding climate change has been focused on the macrophysical and, to a lesser extent, the macrosocial features of this phenomenon. An important step in mitigation and adaptation will be to examine the ways that climate change risks manifest themselves…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Kaufman, Yoneji, Nelson, Shemesh, Huang, Tian, Bond, Clegg, Brown
High-resolution analyses of lake sediment from southwestern Alaska reveal cyclic variations in climate and ecosystems during the Holocene. These variations occurred with periodicities similar to those of solar activity and appear to be coherent with time series of the cosmogenic…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES