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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pech
Four reindeer lichen (Cladina rangiferina (L.) Nyl) samples were placed near ground level in the open at a meteorological station where dew and other meteorological parameters were measured. One sample was covered occasionally from sunset to sunrise to prevent dew and to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mladenoff
This paper provides contextual documentation of the LANDIS model development to provide a framework for the other papers in this special issue. The LANDIS model of forest landscape disturbance and succession was developed since the early 1990s as a research and management tool…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Several strategies are available for reducing accumulated forest fuels and their associated risks, including naturally or accidentally ignited wildland fires, management ignited prescribed fires, and a variety of mechanical and chemical methods (Omi 1996). However, a combination…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Michalek, French, Kasischke, Johnson, Colwell
Fire disturbance in boreal forests can release carbon to the atmosphere stored in both the aboveground vegetation and the organic soil layer. Estimating pyrogenic emissions of carbon released during biomass burning in these forests is useful for understanding and estimating…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Messier, Huot, Le Henaff, Luttich
The George River herd in northern Quebec/Labrador increased from about 5000 animals in 1945 to 472,200 (or 1.1 caribou multiplied by km^-2) prior to the 1984 calving season. The range used by the herd expanded from 160,000 to 442,000 km2 for the period 1971-84. The exponential…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Messier, Parent, Bergeron
The percentage of above-canopy photosynthetic photon flux density (%PPFD) was measured at 0.50 and 100 cm above the forest floor and above the main understorey vegetation in virgin stands of (1) pure Betula papyrifera (white birch, deciduous), (2) pure Populus tremuloides (…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Jenkins, Gould, Cheney
Physics-based coupled fire-atmosphere models are based on approximations to the governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion, and the thermal degradation of solid fuel. They require significantly more computational resources than the most commonly used fire spread models,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McLean
There is a close relationship between root system characteristics and the relative fire resistance of Douglas fir forest zone species in southern interior British Columbia. Susceptible species are usually those that have fibrous root systems or produce stolons or rhizomes which…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McKenzie, Peterson, Alvarado
Models of vegetation change in response to global warming need to incorporate the effects of disturbance at broad spatial scales. Process-based predictive models, whether for fire behavior or fire effects on vegetation, assume homogeneity of crucial inputs over the spatial scale…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Starr
Literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environmental effects of logging activity and the removal of large woody structure. As in unburned stands, log retrieval systems vary considerably in their immediate effect on soils in the postfire environment,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McGuire, Apps
Contains information about the conference itinerary and abstracts from this conference.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McEwan, Whitehead
The relationship between energy intake and body weight of reindeer and caribou are summarized. The results indicate that caloric intake was 35-45% lower in winter than during the summer growth period. The relation between heat production and body weight also exhibited a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBride
About 2.3 million acres were burned by wildfires in Alaska in 1977, an exceptionally bad year when the reversal of normal patterns of rainfall caused an unusually dry August. Major fires are described and the ways in which they were tackled are outlined. Resource Impact Advisory…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBeath
Spruce bud rust (caused by Chrysomyxa woroninii ) attacked both the leaf (needle) buds and ovulate strobili of Picea glauca and P. mariana. The infected needle buds produced extremely stunted shoots with bright yellow-colored needles. Infected cones became most conspicuos when…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matsuoka, Holsten, Werner, Burnside
[Excerpted from article introduction] From 1990 to 2000 a massive outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) caused a die-off of spruce trees (Picea spp.) across more than 1.19 million ha of forests in Alaska. This natural disturbance was most pronounced among forests…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mathewes, Heusser
Transfer functions for converting pollen frequencies to estimates of mean July temperature and mean annual precipitation were applied to fossil pollen data from a sediment core in Marion Lake. The paleotemperature curve shows low July temperatures near 14 degrees C at the base…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Trentmann, Winterrath, Yokelson, Christian, Carlson, Warner, Wolf, Andreae
Results from two independently developed biomass-burning smoke plume models are compared. Model results were obtained for the temporal evolution of two nascent smoke plumes originating from significantly different fire environments (an Alaskan boreal forest and an African…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Field, Yokelson, Kochivar, Tinsley, Ward, Hao
Oxygenated volatile organic species (oxygenates), including HCOOH, H2CO, CH3OH, HOCH2CHO (hydroxyacetaldehyde), CH3COOH, and C6H5OH, have recently been identified by Fourier transform infrared measurements as a significant component of the direct emissions from biomass…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mid- to late-Holocene carbon balance in arctic Alaska and its implications for future global warming
In the event of global warming, there is considerable uncertainty whether northern ecosystems will act as an atmospheric CO2 sink or source. This study examines Holocene rates of soil carbon accumulation along a latitudinal transect in northern Alaska as an analogue for future…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marchand
When tundra vegetation remains free from fires and other disruptions, the long-lived sedges form large clumps that are often drier than the surrounding soil and eventually become colonized by lichens, mosses, willow shrubs, and alders. These invaders slowly crowd out their…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Manski
This study was undertaken to provide baseline conditions on the incidence of beetle killed spruce in Brooks Camp, the major developed area in Katmai, and to identify potential human activities that might be enhancing beetle population growth.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maikawa, Kershaw
The postfire recovery sequence in spruce woodland growing on drumlins in the Abitau-Dunvegan Lakes area of the Northwest Territories is described. Four phases are recognized: year 1 to year 20, the Polytrichum phase dominated by P. piliferum, and Lecidea granulosa and L.…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maggi, Rinaldi
We present a very simple 'impact' model for the description of forest fires and show that it can mimic the known characteristics of wild fire regimes in savannas, boreal forests, and Mediterranean forests. Moreover, the distribution of burned biomasses in model generated fires…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS