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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McKenzie, Peterson, Alvarado
Models of vegetation change in response to global warming need to incorporate the effects of disturbance at broad spatial scales. Process-based predictive models, whether for fire behavior or fire effects on vegetation, assume homogeneity of crucial inputs over the spatial scale…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Manski
This study was undertaken to provide baseline conditions on the incidence of beetle killed spruce in Brooks Camp, the major developed area in Katmai, and to identify potential human activities that might be enhancing beetle population growth.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kneeshaw, Bergeron
Boreal forest disturbance regimes have changed during the past century, in turn changing regeneration and stand dynamics of these forests. This is occurring at the same time that the forest industry is emphasizing operations that take advantage of pre-established natural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Stocks, Levine, Cofer, Barber
[Excerpt] For the year 1992, we collected and processed 1-km (nadir) AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) satellite imagery to estimate the area burned in Russia. Using the AVHRR-derived area-burned estimate and other factors derived from previous field campaigns in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abaimov
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritchie
Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. As the lands began to emerge from under the ice, they provided a large, varied setting for the re-…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Andrews, Laven
This text provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and institutional framework. It presents the fundamental physics and chemistry of fire, fire behavior, wildland fuels, the interaction of fires…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Levine
The 1989 report of the National Research Council, Global Change and Our Common Future states: "Our planet and global environment are witnessing the most profound changes in the brief history of the human species. Human activity is the major agent of those changes - depletion of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernam
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
From introduction: 'The importance of documented case studies or histories of wildfires (Alexander 1982) has been repeatedly emphasized by both fire managers and fire researchers (e.g., Schaefer 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). For example, at the 4th Conference on Fire and Forest…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yevdokimenko
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yefremova, Yefremov
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yanovski, Kiselev
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, de Groot
Residents of Canada and other northern circumpolar countries are concerned with the scenarios of climate change since Global Circulation Models predict that global warming over the next 30-50 years will be most evident in the northern regions (Bolin et at. 1986; Roots 1989;…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Volokitina
The subject matter of this paper is a new area in the field of pyrology (wildland fire science) in Russia, the mapping of vegetation fuels (VF). Methods of composing VF maps of middle and large scales are briefly explained, along with the purpose of such maps. A classification…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volney
Insects are the most diverse group of terrestrial animals. Not surprisingly, they influence several ecosystem processes and thus have a profound influence in most terrestrial ecosystems by occupying a myriad o f niches. The reciprocal interaction of insects with forest plants…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valendik
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telitsyn
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sykes, Prentice
Changes in the global carbon (C) cycle caused by human activities have focused the attention of environmental scientists on where and how C is distributed through the terrestrial biosphere. Forests are the largest land reservoir for C (e.g., see Kellomäki and Karjalainen,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swetnam
Siberian forests are shaped by complex interactions of climate, forest fires, insect outbreaks, and humans. Unravelling the linkages and mechanisms of these interactions will require long temporal and large spatial-scale perspectives. A full account of the past input of Siberian…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Cahoon, Levine, Cofer, Lynham
From introduction: 'The boreal forest biome is a classic fire-dependent ecosystem, capable, during periods of extreme fire weather, of sustaining the large, high-intensity wildfires responsible for its existence. The natural fire cycle in the North American boreal forest…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Lynham
The boreal forest, or taiga, predominates as a vegetation type in northern circumpolar countries, covering in excess of 12 million square kilometres, primarily in Russia and Canada, with lesser amounts in Scandinavia, China, and the United States (Alaska). Lying generally…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES