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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guthrie
It is suggested that the melanism found in the arctic ground squirrel is due to the darker individuals being favored when burnt-over areas are invaded.
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Impact of forest conversion to agriculture on carbon and nitrogen mineralization in subarctic Alaska
Land-use change is likely to be a major component of global change at high latitudes, potentially causing significant alterations in soil C and N cycling. We addressed the biogeochemical impacts of land-use change in fully replicated black spruce forests and agricultural fields…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gromtsev
Fire layers in peat columns from bogs, and carbon layers in soil trenches on dry ground were used to analyse the pattern of occurrence of fires in natural spruce [Picea abies] and pine [Pinus sylvestris] boreal forests of Karelia during the last 3000-6000 years. Results of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grigal
Soils in two adjacent forest stands in interior Alaska, one birch (Betula papyrifera) and the other black spruce (Picea mariana), were sampled in 2-cm increments to a depth of 50 cm. The soils had developed from the same parent material and were similar in slope and aspect. The…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gresswell
Synthesis of the literature suggests that physical, chemical, and biological elements of a watershed interact with long-term climate to influence fire regime, and that these factors, in concordance with the postfire vegetation mosaic, combine with local-scale weather to govern…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greene, Gauthier, Noël, Rousseau, Bergeron
In North America, Eurasia, and Australia, salvage logging is increasingly being used to mitigate economic losses due to fire, although the effects of this type of intervention are still essentially unknown. In a field experiment in a large recent boreal forest fire in central…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greene, Johnson
We examined the relationship between the post-fire regeneration density of Populus tremuloides Michx., Pinus banksiana Lamb., and Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP and their pre-fire basal area density at the spatial scale of 70 m (the width of the stands studied) in four fires in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greene, Zasada, Sirois, Kneeshaw, Morin, Charron, Simard
In this review, we focus on the biotic parameters that are crucial to an understanding of the recruitment dynamics of North American boreal tree species following natural (fire, budworm infestation, windthrow) or human-induced (clearcut, partial cut) disturbances. The parameters…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorshkov, Bakkal, Stavrova
The effects of potential climatic warming on the relaxation (ability to return to the initial intact state after disturbance) of boreal pine (Pinus sylvestris) communities was studied by comparing the recovery of the forest floor after fire in 2 geographically different regions…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorham
Boreal and subarctic peatlands comprise a carbon pool of 455 Pg that has accumulated during the postglacial period at an average net rate of 0.096 Pg/yr (1 Pg = 1015g). Using Clymo's (1984) model, the current rate is estimated at 0.076 Pg/yr. Longterm drainage of these peatlands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodman, Hungate
In Alaska, an outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) recently infested over one million hectares of spruce (Picea spp.) forest. As a result, land management agencies have applied different treatments to infested forests to minimize fire hazard and economic loss…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gollberg, Neuenschwander, Ryan
Description not entered.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gollberg, Neuenschwander, Ryan
Description not entered.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Bergeron, Tardif, Gauthier, Flannigan, Mudelsee
Six independent tree-ring reconstructions of summer drought were calibrated against instrumental fire data to develop a 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of fire activity (annual area burned and fire occurrence) on the Boreal Shield, Canada. As a means of validating the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
Trends and periodicities in summer drought severity are investigated on a network of Canadian Drought Code (CDC) monthly average indices extending from central Quebec to western Manitoba and covering the instrumental period 1913-1998. The relationship and coherency between CDC…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gill
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Van der Werf, Randerson, Collatz, Kasibhatla
We present a method for estimating monthly burned area globally at 1 degrees spatial resolution using Terra MODIS data and ancillary vegetation cover information. Using regression trees constructed for 14 different global regions, MODIS active fire observations were calibrated…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giddings
Tree-ring data were obtained in 1942 from nine groups of living Spruce trees situated at about 50-mile intervals along the Yukon River, and from one group on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska. Particular attention is given to the significance of temperature as a factor influencing…
Year: 1943
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Barney, Sheets
Comparative tests in Alaska of (a) a thickened NH4 phosphate liquid fire retardant (Phos-Check 202) and (b) two liquid concentrate retardants (Fire-Trol 930 and Fire-Trol 934) showed that (b) can be successfully dropped by tanker aircraft on the Alaskan type of forest fuel, but…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Smith
In this paper we review the ecology and physiology of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) CarriFre) in the context of a dendroclimatological analysis. To better understand the relationship between mountain hemlock growth and climate variability throughout its range we…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Calkin, Yoder
The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gebert, Schuster, Hesseln
Our study tested the hypothesis that a 24-hour pay system would help control the rising cost of fire suppression and improve firefighter safety. Under this system, emergency firefighting employees would receive their regular base pay 24 hours a day, regardless of the length of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster
This study estimates the overall percentage difference in total personnel compensation between the current pay system for forest fire suppression and a system of 24-hour pay, where employees are paid their regular rate of pay for 24 hours per day while on fire duty. Using a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gavin, Hallett, Hu, Lertzman, Prichard, Brown, Lynch, Bartlein, Peterson
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil profiles are well suited for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS