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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Campbell
Notes on page 439 the use of fire for signaling.
Year: 1883
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Billington
Description not entered.
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Dube
Boreal forests are fire-dependent systems that would lose their vigour and faunal and floral diversity in the absence of fire. The objectives of natural area preservation imply maintaining the original character of the land and perpetuation of those plant and animal communities…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Stocks, Levine, Cofer, Barber
[Excerpt] For the year 1992, we collected and processed 1-km (nadir) AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) satellite imagery to estimate the area burned in Russia. Using the AVHRR-derived area-burned estimate and other factors derived from previous field campaigns in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Chapin
In this chapter, the authors discuss the role of browsing by mammals upon recruitment of trees and shrubs during plant succession in boreal forests. Radiation, soil temperature, and nutrient availability decline sharply through succession in Alaska, and they are probably the…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker
Over the past two decades numerous paleoecological records have become available for describing past plant communities. They show that vegetation has changed on almost all temporal and spatial scales in response to natural environmental variation. Because species have responded…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Discontinuous permafrost occurs widely in the boreal forest, while throughout the tundra region permafrost is continuous and may be hundreds of metres deep. Until recent years few investigations have been conducted on the effects of fire on the perennially frozen ground in…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Johnston, Van Cleve
Mineral exploration, mining, pipeline construction, recreation, and other activities are accelerating on alpine and arctic ecosystems in North America. These ecosystems are threatened with severe disruption; in some areas, esthetic, watershed, and wildlife habitat values have…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blasing, Fritts
Spatial anomaly patterns of sea-level pressures over North America, the North Pacific, and eastern Asia in the 20th century can be statistically calibrated with spatial anomaly pattern of tree growth in semi-arid western North America. Growth anomalies prior to 1900 were…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bisson, Lichatowich, Liss, Goodman, Coutant, McDonald, Lettenmeier, Loudenslager, Williams
Description not entered.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bisson, Montgomery, Buffington
Valley segments, stream reaches, and channel units are three hierarchically nested subdivisions of the drainage network (Frissell et al. 1986), falling in size between landscapes and watersheds (see Chapter 1) and individual point measurements made along the stream network (…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers
Recent studies for optimally deciding seasonal allocations of fire fighting resources suggest that stochastic integer programming and chance-constrained integer programming approaches should be explored. These problems can be very difficult to solve. This study develops…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayley, Schindler
Three hypotheses on the effects of wildfire on stream chemistry (the alkaline ash, nitrate and evapotranspiration hypotheses) are outlined and results presented from a 17-year data set on stream chemistry from two burned boreal forest watersheds in NW Ontario (covering water…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balbyshev
Description not entered.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair
Unique aspects of fire in lichen tundra and forest-tundra were enumerated. The very high inherent fire susceptibility is related to the presence of lichens and shrubs. Lichens are predisposed to burning by virtue of continuous distribution on the soil surface, high surface-…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
Major forest types that are characterized by nonlethal understory fire regimes include those where ponderosa pine or Jeffrey pine has been a major component either as a fire-maintained seral type or as the self-perpetuating climax (table 5-1). This includes extensive areas…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A spatial model of long-term forest fire dynamics and its applications to forests in western Siberia
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Brubaker
Description not entered.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig, Ahearn
Description not entered.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
Forest land conditions affect the potential of U.S. forests to sustain a wide array of forest goods and environmental services (e.g., biodiversity) that society demands. Forest survey data collected by U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers, Kent
Reducing catastrophic fire risk is an important objective of many fuel treatment programs (Kent et al. 2003; Machlis et al. 2002; USDA/USDI 2001a). In practice, risk reductions can be accomplished by lowering the probability of a given loss to forest fires, the amount of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abaimov
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
[From first paragraph] Dendrochronology may be defined as the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. The concepts and techniques of the science, as presented here, reflect the work and practice of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES