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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Leckie
Classifications of airborne mutlispectral scanner data for forest defoliation assessment have generally met with only moderate success. Key factors affecting defoliation assessment (radiometric distortions within the imagery due to atmosphere, sun-object-viewer geometry and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Raunemaa, Hari, Kukkonen, Anttila, Katainen
Long-term effects of air pollutants in Finland have been studied by analyzing needle litter of pine (Pinus silvestris L.) and spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in 13 stands from the years 1958 to 1982. A considerable annual increase in elemental concentrations was observed in the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fellman
'...'The development of beautiful diagnostic methods enables us to slice through and unpeel a flame,' says Howard B. Palmer, professor of energy science at Penn State University and president of the Combustion Institute, the largest professional organization in this field. Many…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auditory recognition of covey mates from separation calls in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) discriminate covey mates from noncovey mates on the basis of recognition of the individual giving the separation call. Two possible modes of recognition, phenotype matching and call…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lanoville
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
The present-day northern Rocky Mountain vegetation is the product of a long history of geologic and climatic events that have interacted with the species populations composing the regional flora. General concepts relating to the organization, classification, and dynamic nature…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilcove
Restricted in size and surrounded by a modified, even alien environment, fragmented ecosystems can suffer a loss of biological diversity, most noticeably through the extinction of species. The extinction process that occurs as result of gragmentation can be divided into four…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss
Natural areas usually are selected for protection according to the elements contained within them. A focus on content alone, however, is incomplete because the structure and use of the surrounding landscape will determine whether a 'protected area' will be able to maintain the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kowal
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
The effective use of modeling techniques in the study of free-burning fires requires more knowledge of the essential scaling laws than has hitherto been available. These laws are developed for a stationary area or 'mass' fire by the methods of dimensional analysis. If fires are…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grelen, Duvall
This publication describes many grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, and shrubs that inhabit longleaf pine-bluestem range. The species vary widely in importance; most produce forage palatable to cattle, some are noxious weeds, and others are valuable indicators of trends in range…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gilbert, Johnson, Zala
To combat the major problem of lightning-caused forest fires in British Columbia, the British Columbia Ministry of Forests operates a lightning locating system developed by Lightning Location and Protection Inc. As of 1985, this network consisted of 18 magnetic direction finders…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Derby, Gates
A computer program based on Dusinberre's finite difference method was written to predict the diurnal temperature variations in tree trunk. The program accounts for solar radiation, thermal radiation, re-radiation and forced convection. The trunk is heterogeneous and anisotropic…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruner
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Webb
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Gagnon
At the northern limit of red pine (Pinusresinosa Ait.) fire may be of critical importance in determining the persistence of red pine and its restriction to islands and shores of lakes. The objectives of the study were to document the distribution pattern of red pine populations…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knowles
Bromegrass seed fields are often directly combined and the remaining growth harvested as hay. It is of interest to determine the effects of this stubble removal on subsequent seed crops. Information on burning of stubble as it affects seed yields would help in the settlement of…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waterworth
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This 'futuring' symposium addressed the possible, preferred, and probable status of wildland fire management and research in the year 2000 and beyond. Papers cover the fire protection needs of the public, management response to these perceived needs, and the research and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gregory
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of leaf smothering upon establishment of white spruce in Alaska. Treatment consisted of protecting seed-spots from leaf litter of an overstory paper birch stand with hardware cloth screens for varying periods. Protection…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Broccoli, Manabe
The contributions of expanded continental ice, reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide, and changes in land albedo to the maintenance of the climate of the last glacial maximum (LGM) are examined. A series of experiments is performed using an atmosphere-mixed layer ocean model in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES