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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Boschetti, Roy
The interannual variability of fire activity has been studied without an explicit investigation of a suitable starting month for yearly calculations. Sensitivity analysis of 37 months of global MODIS active fire detections indicates that a 1-month change in the start of the fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Booze, Reinhardt, Quiring, Ottmar
A screening health risk assessment was performed to assess the upper-bound risks of cancer and noncancer adverse health effects among wildland firefighters performing wildfire suppression and prescribed burn management. Of the hundreds of chemicals in wildland fire smoke, we…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
Net primary production (NPP) was measured in seven black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP)-dominated sites comprising a boreal forest chronosequence near Thompson, Man., Canada. The sites burned between 1998 and 1850, and each contained separate well- and poorly drained stands…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
We quantified the contributions of root respiration (RC) and heterotrophic respiration to soil surface CO2 flux (RS) by comparing trenched and untrenched plots in well-drained and poorly drained stands of a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) fire chronosequence in northern…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower, Norman
Specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf area index (LAI) were estimated using site-specific allometric equations for a boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. Stands ranged from 3 to 131 years in age and had soils that were categorized as…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
Allometric equations were developed relating aboveground biomass, coarse root biomass, and sapwood area to stem diameter at 17 study sites located in the boreal forests near Thompson, Man. The six species studied were trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), paper birch (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
This study examined the distribution and respiration dynamics of woody debris (WD) in a black spruce-dominated fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The chronosequence included seven stands that burned between 1870 and 1998; each stand contained separate well-drained…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bonan, Shugart, Urban
A gap model of environmental processes and vegetation patterns in boreal forests was used to examine the sensitivity of permafrost and permafrostfree forests in interior Alaska to air temperature and precipitation changes. These analyses indicated that in the uplands of interior…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bonan, Shugart
A discussion of the interrelationships between climate, solar radiation, soil moisture, soil temperature and permafrost, forest floor organic layer, nutrient availability, fire regime and insect outbreaks in boreal forests throughout the circumpolar region.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Boas
Author notes that the Kwakiutl Indians burned the woods often.
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Boas
See page 203 for a description of setting fires to increase roots.
Year: 1930
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bliss, Wein
Data are presented on several current studies being conducted in the Mackenzie Delta and the Arctic Archipelago in relation to oil and gas exploration. Tundra fires destroy most of the aboveground plant cover and result in significant increases in depth of the active layer.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Black
The logic behind FEPF is straightforward: identify and map where management objectives exist on the landscape (or where their important habitats exist); identify critical fire weather threshold conditions (such as 80th, 90th, 99th percentile Energy Release Component) and map…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bishop, Rausch
Moose population status, trends in productivity, survival and abundance monitored by aerial surveys and other means in four Alaskan study areas during 1950-1972 are reviewed. Moose numbers were high or increasing from 1950 to 1960 in all areas studied due to extensive and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Berterretche, Hudak, Cohen, Maiersperger, Gower, Dungan
This study compared aspatial and spatial methods of using remote sensing and field data to predict maximum growing season leaf area index (LAI) maps in a boreal forest in Manitoba, Canada. The methods tested were orthogonal regression analysis (reduced major axis, RMA) and two…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Beringer, Chapin, Thompson, McGuire
Surface energy exchanges were measured in a sequence of five sites representing the major vegetation types in the transition from arctic tundra to forest. This is the major transition in vegetation structure in northern high latitudes. We examined the influence of vegetation…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergner, Johnstone, Treseder
Global warming is projected to be greatest in northern regions, where forest fires are also increasing in frequency. Thus, interactions between fire and temperature on soil respiration at high latitudes should be considered in determining feedbacks to climate. We tested the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Bergerud, Jakimchuk, Carruthers
The demography, movement and behaviour patterns of eight caribou populations (Kaminuriak, Nelchina, Central Arctic, Fortymile, Porcupine, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Snowhetta) exposed to industrial activities or transportation corridors are reviewed. Behaviour patterns…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud, Nolan, Curnew, Mercer
The Avalon Peninsula caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd in Newfoundland increased from 720 animals in 1967 to 3,000 animals in 1979, a mean rate of increase of r=0.12. The mean adult sex ratio was 39 males: 61 females and 73% of females were parous. Calf recruitment averaged 25%…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud
Information on the winter feeding behavior of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Newfoundland and the relative abundance of food available to them in winter are presented. Sight and smell were used to locate food beneath the snow. Tall shrubs showing above the snow begin to increase…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud
The numbers of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in North America generally declined in the 1800s and early 1900s. Four hypotheses are discussed relative to this decline: (I) numbers decreased because of a shortage of lichen supplies caused by the destruction of lichen pastures by…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud
The abundance of forage for caribou (Rangifer tarandus), mainly evergreen shrubs and terrestrial lichens, was measured at 22 locations in Newfoundland. Study areas were selected to represent plant successional stages following fires on former forest sites and in lichen woodlands…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergerud
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bergeron, Drapeau, Gauthier, Lecomte
Several concepts are at the basis of forest ecosystem management, but a relative consensus exists around the idea of a forest management approach that is based on natural disturbances and forest dynamics. This type of approach aims to reproduce the main attributes of natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES