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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Golden
This report provides an exhaustive history of spruce bark beetle activity on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. It describes the impacts to the ecosystem and the management challenges encountered as a result of these impacts. Strategies to mitigate these impacts are discussed as well…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby, Curtis
Spruce bettle remains at epidemic levels in area of the Kenai Peninsula and areas of activity were noted in the Copper River Valley. Large aspen tortix was common throughout interior Alaska. Hemlock sawfly declined sharply in southeast Alaska. Black-headed budworm populations…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
In this report, we have presented spread index and buildup index frequency information for selected stations in Alaska. Also, methods to extract and utilize the information were discussed. In doing this, we have provided another tool for the fire planners in Alaska. The tool…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Clark, Findley, Hanes, Mahaffey, Miller, Stinson, Zimmerman
Compilation of reference material and guidance on fire behavior, fuels, and fire effects on wildlife, cultural resources, etc. including a bibliography. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of the Interior, and National Association of State Foresters.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The importance of case histories and/or studies of wildfire have been highlighted by fire control, fire research, and fire weather personnel (e..g., Turner et al. 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). Chandler (1976) notes that 'Time and time again case histories have proven their…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lay
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lafleur, Schreader
Evapotranspiration was measured from a subarctic forest near Churchhill, Manitoba, during July and August 1992. Total stand evapotranspiration was measured via standard micrometeorological techniques; evaporation and transpiration from several components of the forest floor were…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simkin, Siebert
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pojar, MacKinnon
From introduction and back cover: 'The north Pacific coast of North America contains some of the most fascinating and distinctive ecosystems on earth - from majestic ancient forests to lush alpine meadows, sodden muskegs, open woodlands, dry rocky slopes and grasslands. The…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hulten
This monumental work by the world's preeminent authority on Arctic floras—the first comprehensive, up-to-date botanic manual for this region—is the product of the author's more than forty years of study of circumpolar floras. The book describes and illustrates all flowering…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skoog
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aitchison-Benell
The basic objective of this study was to determine those possible pioneer and climax species from disturbed and undisturbed plots respectively. In southeastern Manitoba, pitfall transects in freshly-burnt and control bogs, dominated by Picea marinara, and pine ridges, dominated…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Hao, Richards, Ward
The major condensible products (-45ºC) from smoldering combustion of ponderosa pine sapwood have been identified and quantified. Methylene chloride extracts of the condensate, as well as nonextracted condensate, were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MC). Non-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French
Investigations have shown that fires in boreal forests result in characteristic responses which are recorded on ERS-1 SAR imagery. Using one of the many fire signatures observed on ERS-1 SAR imagery, the analysis of the data revealed there is >10 dB in variation in image…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henshaw
The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) of Arctic Alaska are gregarious, frequently mobile and occupy environment too harsh to support more than a limited spectrum of specialized animals. Although most previous work on caribou has been conducted during the short summer phase of their…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Shaw
Yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is a valuable tree species that is experiencing an extensive forest decline on over 200,000 ha of unmanaged forest in southeast Alaska. Biotic factors appear secondary and some abiotic factor is probably the primary cause of this…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Concentrations of P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn and Zn in black spruce foliage were examined in relation to forest succession on north slopes in interior Alaska. Decline in levels of P and K in the foliage corresponds with rapid decline in forest productivity. Levels of P and, to a lesser…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), introduced to St. Matthews Island in 1944, increased from 29 animals at that time to 6,000 in the summer of 1963, and underwent a crash die-off the following winter to less than 50 animals. In 1957, the body weight of the reindeer was found to…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hogg
Four species of boreal forest conifers (Picea glauca, P. mariana, Larix laricina and Pinus banksiana) share a similar southern limit of natural distribution in the three Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) of western Canada. The southern boundaries of boreal…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Efremova, Efremov
Four stages of thermal degradation of peat are distinguished in the southern taiga subzone of western Siberia; the stages are determined by the types of fires and their intensity. Fire strongly affects compaction of peat, which leads to a significant increase in stores of ash…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Barker
Changing abundances of taxa in the pollen record of northeastern Alaska contain a climate signal and may be compared with GCM simulations of paleo climates. Cold, dry conditions indicated by full-glacial pollen spectra are in broad agreement with model simulations. Successive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeVelice, Queitzsch, Holsten
Species richness did not change on burned plots but declined 24% on the non-burned plots. Compositional changes resulted in changed vegetation types for about one half of both the burned and not-burned plots. It appears that regeneration requirements (e.g., mineral soil) for…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Racine, Walsh
The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carleton, MacLellan
The woody vegetation that developed after clear felling and logging 131 stands dominated by Picea mariana was compared with that of stands that developed after fire in boreal forests of Ontario. Each dataset represents a stand chronosequence on a range of substrates.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Charron
Arboreal succession in the southern boreal forest of QuTbec was documented through a dendroecological analysis of a mid-successional stand originating from fire 75 years ago. The studied stand was located in the forest surrounding Lake Duparquet, south of Lake Abitibi in…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES