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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wolff, Lidicker
This study makes important contributions 10 our understanding of the life history and population dynamics or a little-known yet widespread member of the taiga community. A live trapping grid plus supplemental snaptrapping were used for 3 years. Less intensive efforts covered 3…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Willits, Sampson
Data on lumber, chip and sawdust vol. recovery and lumber value were analysed for live and fire-killed Picea glauca trees from an experimental forest area near Fairbanks. The dead trees were sampled either 2 yr or 3 yr after the fire in order to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Trudell
Habitat preference by caribou (Rangifer tarandus grantii Allen.) and forage selection and consumption by tame reindeer (R. t. tarandus L.) were studied near Atkasook, Alaska, for 3 yr. Small groups of caribou were present in both winter and summer. Winter habitat use was…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces shirasi) numbers and use of habitat were studied on the Streeter Basin Experimental Watershed in the montane aspen zone of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, between 1969 and 1983. Habitat use was measured by pellet counts and directs…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Talbot, Markon
A Landsat-derived vegetation map was prepared for Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge lies within the northern boreal subzone of northwestern central Alaska. Six major vegetation classes and 21 subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, open needleleaf,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Eighty black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) trees from four pulpwood stands in north central Ontario were sampled to determine crown fuel weights. Crown fuel components, both living and dead, were separated into size classes precise enough for use in forest fire behavior…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rolley, Keith
Description not entered.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quintilio, Murphy, Woodard
Initial attack hotspotting rates are presented for a series of test burns in the boreal forest of northern Alberta in 1986/87. Three to six fire crew members were accompanied by a helicopter equipped with a bucket. A comparison was made with continuous fire line production rates…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oosenbrug, Theberge
The altitudinal movements, preferred topography and plant communities of 150 to 200 woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were recorded for two summers. Nine subalpine or alpine tundra communities constituting their major summer range were quantitatively described.…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore
An analysis of samples collected in 1976 from 2 sites in mature open spruce/lichen woodland in Quebec, unburned for 105 and 138 yr, and dominated by Picea glauca, P. mariana, Ledum groenlandicum and Betula glandulosa; and from 3 regenerating sites, burned 1, 5 and 45 yr…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adamczewski, Gates, Soutar, Hudson
The insular population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) on Coats Island, Northwest Territories, is ultimately limited by winter food resources. This study was undertaken to assess forage biomass available during summer and to determine the effects of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Contains proposal for study of postfire lichen recovery on taiga ranges.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zackrisson
The past and present fire regimes are described, and the significance for the flora of this region is discussed. Methods used to reconstruct forest fire history are presented. The dating problems with false and absent rings in Scots pine, Norway spruce and two birch species…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Suffling
Historical data for NW Ontario were used to determine relations between catastrophic (stand replacing) fires and landscape diversity in the boreal forest. Results showed that landscape diversity was greatest with intermediate amounts of fire disturbance. Any change of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, Dieterich
The purpose of the workshop was to exchange information on sampling procedures, research methodologies, preparation and interpretation of specimen material, terminology, and the application and significance of findings, emphasizing the relationship of dendrochronology procedures…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roby
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Reindeer vegetation-type selection, activity, and food habits were studied from 1976 to 1978. Results from aerial surveys and on-ground observations showed a preference for Tussock-Shrub Tundra in spring, Low-Medium Willows in early summer, and Saltgrass Meadows in mid-summer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette
The long term fire history at the treeline in Northern Quebec can be evaluated by ecological surveys of the major ecosystems. Available data suggest that fires are presently climate-controlled, and therefore may be used as paleoclimatic indicators. During a cold climatic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lent
Mapping of gross features of snowcover accumulation and melt patterns using LANDSAT (satellite) imagery provides a synoptic view of changing snow conditions affecting migratory caribou, of particular value when used in conjunction with more detailed data from snow stations.…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Much of the pioneer work in reindeer/caribou range ecology was carried out in the Soviet Union. More recently major contributions to this field of knowledge have been made by Scandinavian and North American biologists. Early work was of a descriptive nature, while a current…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Evidence from 10 years of fire records and 300 years of tree ages and fire scars indicate that forest fires in a large area east of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. are recurrent over a short time interval (<125 years) and related to large scale air mass climate patterns and terrain…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawkes
Mean fire return intervals for different ecological subzones, aspects and elevations in Kananaskis Provincial Park were described. Comparison of the results from this study with others was not practical because of a number of constraints. A discussion of the mean fire return…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christiansen
[This is not the abstract; do not cite.] As part of a broader study to examine interactions between fire and spruce-lichen woodlands, dendrochronological samples, including 13 fire scars and 57 stand-origin dates, were collected across a small study area located in spruce-lichen…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Equations are presented for estimating the twig, foliage, and combined biomass for 58 plant species in interior Alaska. The equations can be used for estimating biomass from percentage of foliar cover of 10-centimeter layers in a vertical profile from 0 to 6 meters. Few…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES