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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wells
[from the text] Understanding the effects of prescribed burning on soil properties is important in forestry applications. If burning has no detrimental effect on soil, it can be used for fuel reduction and hardwood control. However, if burning does have an adverse influence on…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein, Riewe, Methven
This proceedings deals mainly with forest ecosystems (both plant and animal) in Canada and Alaska, with some Finnish experience included. The papers are arranged under the following headings: (1) Resource inventory; (2) Dynamics-nutrient cycling; (3) Dynamics-succession; (4)…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, El-Bayoumi
Concepts of community succession have been viewed from many perspectives because it is such an important aspect of ecology. This paper discusses some of the limitations of the classical concepts of succession when they are applied to northern ecosystems. We attempt to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
In the boreal forests of North America, fire is the keystone ecosystem process that organizes the physical and biological attributes of the biome over most of its range. Boreal forest ecosystem structure and function are described in terms of the adaptations evolved in response…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ward, Babbitt, Susott, Blakely, Hao
Because of the importance of emissions from fires in biomass fuels globally, we developed a highly portable Fire Atmosphere Sampling System (FASS) for sampling smoke emissions. Emissions were sampled with the FASS packages from a variety of fuel and combustion conditions in…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vogl
Sound resource management, including fire management, cannot be based on biased information and incomplete facts. A way to become critical is to understand the basic ecological principles that underlie resource management and that are inherent in the resources under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Thaw depths and soil temperatures are compared for three adjacent sites in interior Alaska: an unburned stand of black spruce/feathermoss-Cladonia type; an adjacent stand, originally of the same type, burned in 1971; and a fireline between the two in which all of the vegetation…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
In the taiga of Alaska, permafrost and vegetation are closely related. In areas underlain by permafrost, the nature of the vegetation is important in determining the thickness of the active layer. In a black spruce stand, the active layer is normally 30-60 cm thick. Flooding has…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
The shortest answer to the title question is that a fire's effect is independent of its mode of origin. So, rather than recreating the original fire regime per se, it might be more feasible to aim for the vegetation a natural fire regime would create. How to arrange the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
Excerpt: The material presented in this paper is drawn from one of the fire research studies at the Petawawa, Ontario, Forest Experiment Station; namely, an ecological study of fire in our boreal forest. The purpose of this work, in the official language of project statements,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Everdingen, Allen
Perennial groundwater discharge in a tributary of Donjek River causes severe icing problems at km 1817.5 (mile post 1130) on the Alaska Highway. Surveys of a section across the icing area revealed vertical ground movements of up to 0.92 m between winter and summer. Subsurface…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck
The structure and function of Alaskan forest ecosystems was examined across two secondary successional sequences. One, the most common in interior Alaska, follows fire in black spruce stands on permafrost sites. The other, less common sequence, follows fire on warmer, generally…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
Nine papers deal with the recovery and restoration of polluted aquatic ecosystems. Other papers include:Botkin, D.B. Strategies for the reintroduction of species to damaged ecosystems. [24 ref.] Particular reference is made to the whooping crane (Grus americana), the Indian lion…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
This study reports the first 2 years' results of a thinning and fertilization study conducted in a 70-year-old white spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. A 2.7-fold increase in tree diameter growth during this period was attributed to improved soil moisture, temperature, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Valentine, Boone
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The proceedings contain 10 papers. Four deal with the development and calibration of detailed site-specific process-based models: carbon partitioning, examination of the causes of the decline in net primary production (NPP) in balsam fir (Abies balsamea) with a detailed process-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ueyoshi, Roads
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Several abstracts on fire ecology, plant response and management in Alaska by following authors:Knapp, G. Dixon, J.S.Foote, J. and Viereck, L.A.Alden, J. and Zasada, J.Viereck, L.A. and Foote, M. J.Sampson, G. R. Post, K.E. and Werner, R.A.Lehnhausen, W. and Murphy, E.Densmmore…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tiedemann, Conrad, Dieterich, Hornbeck, Megahan, Viereck, Wade
The main effect burning on water quality is the potential for increased runoff of rainfall. Runoff may carry suspended soil particles, dissolved inorganic nutrients, and other materials into adjacent streams and lakes, reducing water quality and degrading fish habitat (Wade and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telfer
Trend studies of browse ranges employ permanent plots or permanently-tagged stems. Changes in browse yield and use may be accurately estimated using a relatively small sample if successive measurements are taken on the same stems. The survey method decribed here combines the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES