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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Giglio, Kendall
The demand for improved information on regional and global fire activity in the context of land use/land cover change, ecosystem disturbance, climate modeling, and natural hazards has increased efforts in recent years to improve earth-observing satellite sensors and associated…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grissino-Mayer
COFECHA is a computer program that assesses the quality of crossdating and measurement accuracy of tree-ring series. Written by Richard L. Holmes in 1982, the program has evolved into one of the most important and widely used in dendrochronology. It is important to note that…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Olson, Dinerstein, Wikramanayake, Burgess, Powell, Underwood, D'amico, Itoua, Strand, Morrison, Loucks, Allnutt, Ricketts, Kura, Lamoreux, Wettengel, Hedao, Kassem
The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodiversity-a pragmatic approach, given the highly uneven…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

An interesting collection of reports of large fires in the Tanana Flats in 1941-1942.  Parts of the 1941 fires over-wintered and reappeared in spring 1942—an early record of this phenomenon which sparked a Research Brief in 2020: https://akfireconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2020…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bourn
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pielou
From the text...SUMMARY: '1. The most straightforward method of assessing the degree of non-randomness, if any, of a plant population is to collect a sample of distances from random points to the plant individuals nearest them. A knowledge of the density of the individuals,…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Storey
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bock
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Byram
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Maysilles
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Watchman, Groom, Perrine
'A review of 43 habitat conservation plans reveals numerous ways to reduce uncertainty for landowners and imperiled species alike.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Best
From the text ... 'Conservation easements are a voluntary, incentive-based approach to recognizing the public benefits provided by private forests. The land stays in private ownership and in productive use, while key 'conservation values' such as open space, fish and wildlife…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tu, Hurd, Randall
From the text ... 'TNC and other agencies and ogganizations that manage land for biodiversity often use prescribed burns to promote desired vegetation and species. Fire is sometimes necessary to prompt the germination of some plants, including a number of rare and endangered…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Jimenez, Conover
In human-modified environments, high predation rates on ground-nesting birds and their eggs can be a serious problem. We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of ecological aproaches to improve recruitment of ground-nesting birds. Ecological approaches reduce…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gandhi, Spence, Langor, Morgantini
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fall, Fall
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Schwab, Simon, Carroll
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Legare, Bergeron, Leduc, Paré
Variation in canopy composition can influence ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling and light transmittance, even when environmental soil conditions are similar. To determine whether forest cover type influences species composition of the understory vegetation (herbs and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS