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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Yanovski, Kiselev
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Werner
Plant communities in taiga forest ecosystems harbor an array of insects that exploit the vast biomass within these ecosystems. Phytophagous insects with associated parasites, predators, and saprophytes form a discrete insect community. Phytophagous species often differ among…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wein, de Groot
Residents of Canada and other northern circumpolar countries are concerned with the scenarios of climate change since Global Circulation Models predict that global warming over the next 30-50 years will be most evident in the northern regions (Bolin et at. 1986; Roots 1989;…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Wein
Throughout the boreal circumpolar North almost all terrestrial ecosystems exhibit soil organic matter accumulation, with increased accumulation at higher soil moisture levels. Fire frequencies in organic terrain are very low compared with drier ecosystems such as those dominated…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Wein, MacLean
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wein
Description not entered.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Volokitina
The subject matter of this paper is a new area in the field of pyrology (wildland fire science) in Russia, the mapping of vegetation fuels (VF). Methods of composing VF maps of middle and large scales are briefly explained, along with the purpose of such maps. A classification…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Volney
Insects are the most diverse group of terrestrial animals. Not surprisingly, they influence several ecosystem processes and thus have a profound influence in most terrestrial ecosystems by occupying a myriad o f niches. The reciprocal interaction of insects with forest plants…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Viereck
Fire in black spruce ecosystem of northern Canada and Alaska is characterized by large and frequent fires that usually kill the overstory trees and most, if not all, of the vegetation above ground. Most species within the black spruce ecosystem show adaptations to fire, and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Van Wagner
This chapter begins with a review of northern fuels and fire behaviour, and stresses the general uniformity of all spreading fires in vegetation, the two limiting criteria being the rate of forward heat transfer and fuel quality. Five classes of fire and examples are listed with…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Van Lear, Wurtz
Forest restoration, in a general sense, suggests a transition from a degraded state to some 'natural' condition, presumably devoid of human influence (Stanturf, this volume). Yet, because nearly all temperate and boreal forests have been influenced to varying and unknown degrees…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Valendik
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Tolonen
Knowledge of the post-glacial fire history assists in understanding ecological questions such as succession and stability of the vegetation mosaic, the dependence of flora on fire, and ecological consequences of fires to lakes and bogs. This information is incorporated in peat…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Telitsyn
Description not entered.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Telfer
Moose (Alces alces) are the largest surviving land mammals in the circumpolar boreal forests and the largest living representatives of the deer family (Cervidae). The weights of adult bulls in Alberta averaged 477 kg in early winter when adult females averaged 402 kg (Canadian…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sykes, Prentice
Changes in the global carbon (C) cycle caused by human activities have focused the attention of environmental scientists on where and how C is distributed through the terrestrial biosphere. Forests are the largest land reservoir for C (e.g., see Kellomäki and Karjalainen,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Swetnam
Siberian forests are shaped by complex interactions of climate, forest fires, insect outbreaks, and humans. Unravelling the linkages and mechanisms of these interactions will require long temporal and large spatial-scale perspectives. A full account of the past input of Siberian…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sturtevant, Jakes
Wildland fire knows no political boundaries, nor should efforts to address its risk. Collaboration is not a new idea; many examples of natural resource managers and community groups working together can be found in forest management planning, watershed restoration, and wildland…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stocks, Fosberg, Wotton, Lynham, Ryan
After a decade of speculation and debate, there is now a general scientific consensus that rising greenhouse gas levels in the earth’s atmosphere will result in significant climate change over the next century. The recent statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Stocks, Cahoon, Levine, Cofer, Lynham
From introduction: 'The boreal forest biome is a classic fire-dependent ecosystem, capable, during periods of extreme fire weather, of sustaining the large, high-intensity wildfires responsible for its existence. The natural fire cycle in the North American boreal forest…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stocks, Lynham
The boreal forest, or taiga, predominates as a vegetation type in northern circumpolar countries, covering in excess of 12 million square kilometres, primarily in Russia and Canada, with lesser amounts in Scandinavia, China, and the United States (Alaska). Lying generally…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith
Description not entered.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sheshukov
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES