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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Marion, Oechel
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

Mann, Plug
Vegetation and soils on fluvial deposits of different ages were used to describe ecosystem development over millennia at a well-drained taiga site in the central Alaska Range. The youngest geomorphic surfaces are not forested, and lie in the active floodplain where they are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mann, Fastie, Rowland, Bigelow
A long-standing paradigm in the ecology of the Alaskan taiga states that black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.] BSP) replaces white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) after several centuries of primary succession on floodplains. According to this Drury Hypothesis, autogenic…
Year: 1995
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

Maier, Ver Hoef, McGuire, Bowyer, Saperstein, Maier
We analyzed the relation between early winter distribution and density of female moose (Alces alces L.) and habitat heterogeneity in interior Alaska. We tested for effects of vegetation type, topography, distance to rivers and towns, occurrence and timing of fire, and landscape…
Year: 2005
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

MacKinnon, Vold
We analyzed more than 7,000 1:20,000-scale forest cover maps for British Columbia to determine the amount of old-growth forest in the Canadian province. For this exercise, ''old growth'' was defined as: forests on the coast > 250 years old; and forests in the interior >…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mackay
Active layer changes after the 1968 forest-tundra fire at Inuvik, N.W.T., have been monitored from 1968 to 1993 at three burned and two unburned sites. In addition, a burned site has been used for field experiments on changes to the active layer. The active layer depths have…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mackay
Description not entered.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mackay, Mackay
Experiments were carried out during the 1967-1972 period in an attempt to measure cryostatic (frost-induced) pressures by means of soil pressure cells installed in nonsorted circles (mud hummocks) at Inuvik, N.W.T. Although slight soil pressure increases were measured in the…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Macdonald, Bergeron
This proceedings contain 16 papers on disturbance processes in boreal forests and their ecological effects. This special issue begins with a series of papers examining the effects of fire and forest harvesting on regeneration processes, understorey community development, forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

MacCracken, Viereck
This study was undertaken to estimate the short-term effects of fire on plant response and moose (Alces alces Miller) browse following the Rosie Creek fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire consumed forests of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michc.), paper birch (Betula…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 and 1976, an experimental burning programme was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario, Canada. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lynch, Hollis, Hu
1) The response of ecosystems to past and future climatic change is difficult to understand due to the uncertainties in the direction and magnitude of changes and the relative importance of interactions between climate and local factors. In boreal ecosystems such interactions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lynch, Clark, Bigelow, Edwards, Finney
Charcoal and pollen analyses were used to determine geographic and temporal patterns of fire importance in boreal forests of the Kenai Peninsula and interior Alaska. Sieved, large charcoal particles were measured in continuously sampled cores of Rock, Portage, and Arrow Lakes (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lynch, Wu
Observations show that the amplitude of the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide cycle has increased. Lagged correlations between carbon dioxide, temperature, and vegetation suggest a modulation by ecosystem response, but the mechanisms remain unclear. Hypotheses include an early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS