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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fenton, Beland, De Blois, Bergeron
Boreal forest bryophyte communities are made up of distinct colonies of feathermosses that cover the forest floor. In some black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) boreal forests, Sphagnum spp. establish colonies on the forest floor 30-40 years after the feathermosses, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fenton, Bergeron
In eastern Canada, boreal forests develop structural diversity in association with time since stand replacing fire. In some regions, this is associated with significant changes in the bryophyte community (Sphagnum moss invasion) and paludification (thick waterlogged forest floor…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fege, Absher
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Swetnam, Berg
Tree ring patterns in white spruce (Picea glauca) and Sitka spruce (P. sitchensis) from 6 sites on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska document a widespread disturbance that killed overstory trees between 1880 and 1920. During this period 18-80% of trees in sampled stands record a ring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie
The classic account of primary succession inferred from a 220-yr glacial retreat chronosequence at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska was compared to reconstructions of stand development based on tree-ring records from 850 trees at 10 sites of different age. The three oldest…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fantin, Morin
(French title: Croissance juvenile comparee de deux generations successives de semis d'epinette noire issus de graines apres feu en foret boreale, Quebec) The objective of this study was to compare juvenile (0-12 years) height growth pattern of dominant mature trees from two…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fancy, White
The rate of energy expenditure by caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) digging in snow for lichens was determined by heart rate telemetry and an analysis of cratering mechanics. Based on significant linear relationship between energy expenditure and heart rate, the mean cost per…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall, Fortin, Kneeshaw, Yamasaki, Messier, Bouthillier, Smyth
At the landscape scale, one of the key indicators of sustainable forest management is the age-class distribution of stands, since it provides a coarse synopsis of habitat potential, structural complexity, and stand volume, and it is directly modified by timber extraction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fairbrother, Turnley
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as its fire management policy evolves to cope with a legacy of over 100 years of fire suppression on national forest lands and an increasing…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Everett, Trappe, Baumgartner
A science-based ecosystem management approach requires valid reference points to assess the long-term maintenance of forest systems. Historical range of variability (HRV) in vegetation patterns has served as the initial reference point and has support in the coarse-filter…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eugster, Vaganov, Rouse, Pielke, Chapin, Vidale, Chambers, McFadden, Baldocchi, Liston
This paper summarizes and analyses available data on the surface energy balance of Arctic tundra and boreal forest. The complex interactions between ecosystems and their surface energy balance are also examined, including climatically induced shifts in ecosystem type that might…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eriksson, Lilja, Roininen
Dead wood creation is an important tool for restoring the natural characteristics of boreal managed forests, where the amount of dead wood has seriously declined as a result of forest management practices. Although many forest species would benefit from restoration, foresters…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Detecting changes in arctic tundra plant communities in response to warming over decadal time scales
Detecting the response of vegetation to climate forcing as distinct from spatial and temporal variability may be difficult, if not impossible, over the typical duration of most field studies. We analyzed the spatial and interannual variability of plant functional type biomass…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engling, Carrico, Kreidenweis, Collett, Day, Malm, Lincoln, Hao, Linuma, Herrman
Atmospheric particulate matter can be strongly affected by smoke from biomass combustion, including wildfires, prescribed burns, and residential wood burning. Molecular source tracer techniques help determine contributions of biomass smoke to particle concentrations if…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
Results are presented from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old boreal Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engelmark
Age and size structures of saplings of Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris and Betula pubescens were examined in a 26yr old forest fire area in a Picea abies-Vaccinium myrtillus forest in northern Sweden. Picea, which is a shade-tolerant species, had its maximum regeneration prior to…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison
An intense fire occurring on a previously established study area in August 1969 reduced the subsequent spring breeding density of spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis) by about 60 percent. At least 35 percent of the adults using the burn in spring-summer 1970 were birds that…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison, Bank, Clinton, Colburn, Elliott, Ford, Foster, Kloeppel, Knoepp, Lovett, Mohan, Orwig, Rodenhouse, Sobezak, Stinson, Stone, Swan, Thompson, Von Holle, Webster
In many forested ecosystems, the architecture and functional ecology of certain tree species define forest structure and their species-specific traits control ecosystem dynamics. Such foundation tree species are declining throughout the world due to introductions and outbreaks…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot
The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) is a physically based erosion model for applications to dryland and irrigated agriculture, rangeland, and forests. U.S. Forest Service (USFS) experience showed that WEPP was not being adapted because of the difficulty in building files…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elkie, Rempel
A hierarchy of processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales form landscape pattern, and changes to the patterns can have impacts on habitats and forest dwelling species. Managing landscapes under the auspices of sustainable forest ecosystems and emulation of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Efremova, Efremov
Four stages of thermal degradation of peat are distinguished in the southern taiga subzone of western Siberia; the stages are determined by the types of fires and their intensity. Fire strongly affects compaction of peat, which leads to a significant increase in stores of ash…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dykstra
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyer
In the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, spruce logs infested by Dendroctonus obesus (Mannerheim) were placed beside thermographs at three sites. Throughout the summer, the mean and minimum air temperatures were higher on a mountain slope than in two valley bottoms at…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Young, Gresswell, Rieman
Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire is the effects of fire and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS