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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Strang
A preliminary comparison of burned and unburned tracts in the northern boreal forest of the lower Mackenzie River valley indicates that, without periodic fires, trees will be eliminated and the climax vegetation will be a moss/lichen association. The implications for land…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oliver, Van Cleve
Description not entered.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oliver
Large-scale, man-created or natural disturbances play a major role in determining forest structure and species composition in many areas of North America and probably other temperate and tropical forests. Studies suggest a single group of species is not predestined to inhabit an…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Oldemeyer, Regelin
From l974-l98l, a study was conducted on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska to determine the response of spruce and moose forage [willow (Salix spp.), aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) to fire and habitat management. Vegetation was sampled…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oldemeyer, Franzmann, Brundage, Arneson, Flynn
In trials in 1973-4 digestibility (in vitro DM disappearance) and levels of CF, CP and minerals were determined in herbage eaten by moose (Alces alces) in the NW Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. There were significant changes in all values between summer and winter in the major browse…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oldemeyer
The evaluation of forage quality for wild ungulates is reviewed and the amount and variability of carbohydrates, fats, protein, energy and digestibility of forage discussed. Results of in vitro digestion of 3 species palatable to moose on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska (Betula…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ohlson, Korbal, Okland
We present a spatial and quantitative analysis of the macroscopic charcoal record in 11 forested peat basins in a boreal forest landscape in southeast Norway. The areas of the basins ranged from 200 to 6400 m2 and our study is based on 247 peat sequences that were sampled from…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Niemela, Chapin, Danell, Byrant
Recent efforts to project vegetation responses to climatic warming have emphasized the tight linkages between climate and vegetation distribution. Here several examples are provided which indicate that the direct effects of climatic warming on boreal vegetation can be…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Niemela
Disturbances and the consequent habitat heterogeneity are natural features of the boreal forest. Natural disturbances occurring at the level of populations, communities and ecosystems (meters to kilometers and years to hundreds of years), that is, at the 'meso-scale' may provide…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Niemela
Logging has ecological effects on invertebrates in Fennoscandian boreal forest. Especially affected are species associated with micro-habitats of natural old-growth forest, such as coarse woody debris, large deciduous trees, and patches of wet swamp-forest. Furthermore, the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nichols
From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Naydenov, Tremblay, Bergeron, Goudiaby
In the boreal forest, the beneficial effect of wildfire on germination substrates has often been linked to the adsorption by charcoal of phenolic compounds detrimental for seedling germination and growth. Our goal was to show that active charcoal has direct positive effects on…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Natcher, Calef, Huntington, Trainor, Huntington, DeWilde, Rupp, Chapin
Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns of human-fire interaction in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Natcher
Through a process of participatory mapping, this research assessed the impacts of the 1984 change in Alaska fire policy from one of exclusion to one of management on native land use in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Findings suggest that while the change in policy has…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Murphy, Kessel, Vining
A study of duck habitat use patterns and limnology in eastern interior Alaska revealed that ponds hydrologically connected to a creek system had greater use by ducks and higher levels of most nutrients and ions that those hydrologically isolated from a system. Phosphate level…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Murphy, Woodard, Quintilio, Titus
Hot-spotting containment rates were determined for 18 fires of various intensities in two common boreal forest cover types: 8 in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and 10 in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). Hot-spotting containment rates did not differ significantly…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Murphy, Lehnhausen
Throughout its geographic range, the black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) is rare and appears very similar in its foraging ecology to 2 broadly sympatric congeners, the three-toed (P. tridactylus) and hairy woodpecket (P cillosus. The purposes of our study were to test…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mouillot, Narasimha, Balkanski, Lamarque, Field
We used a new, 100-year, 1 × 1° global fire map and a carbon cycle model (CASA) to provide a yearly gridded estimate of the temporal trend in carbon emissions due to wildfires through the 20th century. 2700–3325 Tg C y−1 burn at the end of the 20th century, compared to 1500–2700…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mouillot, Field
A yearly global fire history is a prerequisite for quantifying the contribution of previous fires to the past and present global carbon budget. Vegetation fires can have both direct (combustion) and long-term indirect effects on the carbon cycle. Every fire influences the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Morton, Berg, Newbould, MacLean, O'Brien
In this article, we review the 2005 fire season on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, especially the five lightning starts in wilderness. The decision process for suppressing these fires, or not, clarifies some of the major obstacles to allowing wildland fires in wilderness.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Morneau, Payette
A 250-yr postfire plant chronosequence in well-drained sites at the northern limit of the boreal forest in the Grande riviere de la Baleine area, N. Quebec, was reconstructed from 9 sites associated with the development of the lichen/spruce (Cladina stellaris/Picea mariana)…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Morissette, Cobb, Brigham, James
Post-fire timber harvesting (salvage logging) is becoming more prevalent as logging companies try to recover some of the economic losses caused by fire. Because salvaging is a relatively new practice and because of the common perception that burned areas are of little value to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Morgan, Hardy, Swetnam, Rollins, Long
Maps of fire frequency, severity, size, and pattern are useful for strategically planning fire and natural resource management, assessing risk and ecological conditions, illustrating change in disturbance regimes through time, identifying knowledge gaps, and learning how climate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moore
An analysis of samples collected in 1976 from 2 sites in mature open spruce/lichen woodland in Quebec, unburned for 105 and 138 yr, and dominated by Picea glauca, P. mariana, Ledum groenlandicum and Betula glandulosa; and from 3 regenerating sites, burned 1, 5 and 45 yr…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moore, Wein
Seedling emergence from organic and mineral soil layers was measured for nine study sites at the Acadia Forest Experiment Station near Fredericton, New Brunswick. The number of viable seeds showed a decrease from deciduous-dominated forest, to conifer-dominated forest, to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES