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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stuever, Crawford, Molles, White, Muldavin
The "bosque” of the Middle Rio Grande is one of the last extensive cottonwood gallery forests in the American Southwest, and yet the future role of cottonwood in these stands is increasingly threatened. Human intervention has progressively changed stand structure, spatial…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham, Jain, Reynolds, Boyce
The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), is a northern latitude, forest dwelling raptor. In the Western United States, goshawks live in most forests, including those dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.ex.Loud.)…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Popovich, Pyke
Picabo milkvetch Astragalus oniciformis Barneby is endemic to the sagebrush-steppe of three southern Idaho counties that are susceptible to wildfire. Rehabilitation after wildfire commonly includes seeding with competitive introduced perennial grasses. To determine short-and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Geier-Hayes
Post-fire rehabilitation efforts following a central Idaho wildfire included aerial seeding four exotic grass species at a rate of 6.2kgha-1. Smooth brome, intermediate wheatgrass, timothy, and orchard-grass constituted the seed mix. Paired seeded and unseeded plots were…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Field
Fluorinated surfactants comprise a unique class of specialty chemicals whose environmental behavior has received little attention. Consequently, little Information Is available to permit a complete life-cycle analysis. The focus of this review of fluorinated surfactants Is to (1…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (10 000 years BP), but…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roseberry
From the text (p.244) ... 'In closing, I would just like to remind you that as necessary and vital as research is, it is not an absolute cure-all for the current problems faced by quail and other forms of wildlife. The widespread decline in bobwhite abundance over the past 3 or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burger, Taylor
Radio telemetry is a widely accepted tool in the field of wildlife ecology, yet there is little information in the wildlife literature that demonstrates how to incorporate spatiotemporal data from telemetry into spatial databases such as geographic information systems (GIS).…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Capel
Federal Farm programs have had wide range of impacts on wildlife over the years. Some programs have been extremely harmful to wildlife while others have, intentionally or accidentally, been beneficial to wildlife. Frequently, the same program that is beneficial to wildlife in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carver, Burger, Brennan
We compared survival, weight gain, and mark retention of wing bands (n = 50), passive integrated transponders (PITs) (n = 50), and leg bands proportional to the chicks size (control) (n = 50) on 1-day-old northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) chicks. A repeated measures,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pope, Heekin
Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) populations have declined throughout the Intermountain Region of the Pacific Northwest. The decline of mountain quail is most likely related to the loss of habitat. We suggest that disturbance may play a critical role in providing the structure,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Ludolph
Archaeological and historical evidence on status of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in southern Ontario prior to European settlement is not clear. The bird was documented on the Essex and Kent County prairies at the time of European settlement in the early 1700's.Early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guthery, Forrester, Nolte, Cohen, Kuvlesky
Populations of scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) and northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have declined in North America coincident with global warming. We speculate on a cause-effect relation between global warming and quail declines. Quail are sensitive to operative…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crawford
Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) are among the least studied of the North American quails. The prehistoric and early historic distributions of this bird are uncertain. In the Pacific Northwest, mountain quail were first recorded by Lewis and Clark in 1806 near the Columbia River…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll
Recently, McGowan et al. (1995) completed a worldwide conservation strategy for all species of partridges, quails, and francolins. They identified priority species and projects for the next 5 years. Mexico was identified as a critical country in Latin America because of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Schemnitz
We observed unmarked and radio-marked (20 females/1994; 9 females and 11 males/1995) scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) during the nesting season in the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. In 1994, pairing was completed by early April. Clutch size averaged 13.8 ± 1.7 (n =…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radomski, Guthery
We established mathemetical models and explored the role of a learned response (avoidance behavior) to understand and manage the hunter-covey interface. Furthermore, we examined the dynamic nature of the probability of flush, given encounter, in a population that learned to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Aware of the time lag that frequently exists between declines in biodiversity and effective conservation to correct and reverse the declines, I examine some reasons behind this problem. Experience with species as diverse as the shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) and grey partridge…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the carbon cycle in ways that will alter the climate system and directly affect terrestrial metabolism…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matthews
From the text... 'This year's catastrophic wilfires have finally ended. A new tree-planting initiative helps communities heal the landscape.' 'In 2001, Global ReLeaf will plant at least 300,000 trees in seven fire restoration projects.' A list of these seven projects follows.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS