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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Cruz
We evaluated the predictive capacity of a rate of spread model for active crown fires (M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander, and R.H. Wakimoto. 2005. Can. J. For. Res. 35: 1626-1639) using a relatively large (n = 57) independent data set originating from wildfire observations undertaken in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from 1994 to 2001 at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Can wildland fire behavior really be predicted? That depends on how accurate you expect the prediction to be. The minute-by-minute movement of a fire will probably never be predictable- certainly not from weather conditions forecasted many hours before the fire. Nevertheless,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
Calibration and testing of a computer simulation of the burning of large woody natural fuels has been presented previously in this journal. This note describes an improved calibration of the model for better prediction of fuel loading reductions. Using the same data as before,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caldararo
The present text is a summary of research on the relationship between forest fires and human activities. Numerous theories have been created to explain changes in forests during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and a general understanding has developed in the past 50…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butry
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns to these programs in terms of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Kielland, Rupp, Hanley
Aim: We examined the interactive effects of mammalian herbivory and fluvial dynamics on vegetation dynamics and composition along the Tanana River in interior Alaska. Location Model parameters were obtained from field studies along the Tanana River, Alaska between Fairbanks (64…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Jones
Bark protects both the living phloem and the vascular cambium of trees. For some tree species the bark has been observed to swell in the radial direction when heated by nearby flames, possibly providing additional protection from thermal injury. In this study, detailed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
This study presents spatially and temporally resolved measurements of air temperatures and radiant energy fluxes in a boreal forest (Pinus banksiana-Picea mariana) crown fire in Northwest Territories, Canada. Measurements were collected 3.1, 6.2, 9.2, 12.3, and 13.8 m above the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burkett, Wilcox, Stottlemyer, Barrow, Fagre, Baron, Price, Nielsen, Allen, Peterson, Ruggerone, Doyle
Many biological, hydrological, and geological processes are interactively linked in ecosystems. These ecological phenomena normally vary within bounded ranges, but rapid, nonlinear changes to markedly different conditions can be triggered by even small differences if threshold…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burke, Zepp, Tarr, Miller, Stocks
During the spring and summer of 1994 we monitored soil-atmosphere exchanges of methane and carbon dioxide at upland sites in the Canadian boreal forest near the northern study area (NSA) of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS). The effects of fire on methane and carbon…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Bradshaw
As the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (see Burgan et al. 1997 in this issue of Fire Management Notes), it has been abundantly clear that weather inputs are the most…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunting, Lundberg
This field and microscope study explores the micromorphological changes occurring in humus profiles of the Canadian boreal forest which have been variously affected by factors of disturbance: fire, dehydration and overland flow after storms. It compares the materials and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Structure of native vertebrate faunas within 12 different forest types were related to features of the natural fire regime. Relations between faunal structure and fire regime followed patterns expected if faunas were adapted to fire regimes. Proportions of species breeding early…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bulmer
(1) The main features of the ten-year cycle are the regularity of the period and the irregularity of the amplitude of the oscillations; these features are obvious in data on the lynx cycle, and in the correlogram and periodogram calculated from the data. (2) A statistical model…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Kuropat
Plant palatability frequently moderates vertebrate herbivore forage selection patterns. There is, however, considerable debate as to which plant chemical characteristics control palatability. On the one hand, forage proximal nutritional quality is believed to be of primary…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
The influence of climate on the population dynamics of trees must be inferred from indirect sources of information because the long lifespans of trees preclude direct observation of population growth and decline. Important insights about these processes come from 1) observations…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Briffa, Schweingruber, Jones, Osborn, Shiyatov, Vaganov
Tree-ring chronologies that represent annual changes in the density of wood formed during the late summer can provide a proxy for local summertime air temperature. Here we undertake an examination of large-regional-scale wood-density/air-temperature relationships using…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Boone, Jones, Lajtha, Ruess
Floristic succession in the boreal forest can have a dramatic influence on ecosystem nutrient cycling. We predicted that a decrease in plant and microbial demand for nitrogen (N) during the transition from mid- to late-succession forests would induce an increase in the leaching…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Boone, Ruess
We hypothesized that differences in microbial and plant N demand in balsam poplar and white spruce stands would control in situ net N transformation and retention following N additions. Throughout the study, N fertilizer (NH4NO3) was added in three increments during the growing…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bray, Struik
Recent activity of Yoho Glacier was determined by botanical and geological dating techniques and from published accounts. Tree growth in four forests adjacent to the end moraine was measured by increment borings of 200 Picea engelmannii. Drawings of increment cores were made in…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brassard, Chen
Coarse woody debris (CWD) volume and diversity are vital attributes of forest ecosystems. However, despite their importance, their long-term dynamics associated with fire- or logging-origin and overstory type have not been examined in boreal forest. We hypothesize that (1) CWD…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS