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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Greene, Shilling, Compton
[First paragraph] Prescribed fire is coming to be recognized as a quantitative factor in natural-resource research, but our inability to control environmental and fire-related variables in natural fires has been a major impediment to interpreting research data. To help remove…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whelan
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species and of tree species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taplin
We correct the variance for the rate of spread of a fire through a non-homogeneous fuel as described in Catchpole et al. (1989, Ecol. Modelling, 48: 101-112). The spatial dependence of the fuel types can greatly influence this variance; a phenomenon not expressed by the analysis…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (>90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Wein
A Typha marsh community was subjected to draining and seasonal burning treatments to control the growth of emergent aquatics. Treatments resulted in an increase in total number of species after 3 years. Cover and frequency of Aster novi-belgii, Lycopus uniflorus, Epilobium…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeLay, O'Conner, Ryan, Currie
From the Executive Summary: Current Status: Pondberry is listed as an endangered species. A total of 36 naturally occurring populations are extant. The species is currently known from Arkansas (10 populations), Georgia (4 populations), Mississippi (13 populations), Missouri (1…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orozco, Carrillo
Traditionally, in the Southwest, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) red slash has not been treated with fire to meet resource objectives until all slash has fully cured, usually a 2-to-4-year wait. Waiting for slash to cure is still the widespread practice on most forests in the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis, Clements
In this note we demonstrate that the Buckney and Morrison (1992) data subsets are located on different geomorphological units and different pre-mining plant communities with different fire histories. The conclusions that they have drawn from their data are therefore not valid.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oswald, Brown
Vegetation development, including both planted and natural tree seedlings, was examined over a 5-year period on an area in the ESSFmw subzone of the Nelson Forest Region which was clearcut, skid logged, burned, and planted with 2+0, 313, Engelmann spruce. Study sites included…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational reconstruction was aided by…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada, Norum
Broadcast burning following harvesting of flood plain sites in Alaska substantially decreased residual organic material and increased exposed mineral soil. Two forest types were studied: white spruce/alder/feathermoss and white spruce/alder/lingenberry/feathermoss. The latter…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Marion
This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting, rationale, and organization of a multidisciplinary research programme designed to examine the role of salt-affected soils in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. The association of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hervieux
Rumen samples from 104 barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) collected in March 1980 and 1981 at 18 sites on the winter range in south-central Northwest Territories (NWT) and northern Saskatchewan were examined microscopically for relative occurrence of plant…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Density dependent effects of food limitation on productivity have been documented for >12 species of large ungulates. In wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) a decrease in recruitment rate and adult female body size (although not in adult survival rate) develops in response to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shasby, Carneggie
During the past 5 years, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Field Office in Anchorage, Alaska has worked cooperatively with Federal and State resource management agencies to produce land-cover and terrain maps for 245…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On fire. Fire behavior, fuel succession and vegetation response to fire in the Swedish boreal forest
A study was made of the relationship between fire behaviour and vegetation dynamics in the Swedish boreal forest. This paper is based on 4 papers published or submitted for publication elsewhere: the original papers are included in appendices.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (= 90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES