Plant communities in taiga forest ecosystems harbor an array of insects that exploit the vast biomass within these ecosystems. Phytophagous insects with associated parasites, predators, and saprophytes form a discrete insect community. Phytophagous...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Werner
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The bryophytes of the boreal forest are interesting in that they may form a minor element of the community in terms of biomass, while simultaneously being a major element in terms of cover and primary productivity. Even more importantly, the mosses may...
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Oechel, Van Cleve
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taiga organisms experience an extremely short growing season and cold winter temperatures; but within the growing season, environmental conditions vary considerably among sites, ranging from cold, wet, black spruce forests on north-facing slopes to...
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Grime, Anderson
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Several years ago the author started to view taiga forests in terms of an energy and nutrient limitation theory, for simplicity, separating taiga forests into two basic units - the plants and the microbes. The fauna was omitted; no doubt they are most...
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Flanagan
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
From introduction: 'Most forest communities in interior Alaska have been extensively influenced by recurring fire. To a large extent, the distribution of the dominant tree species has been shaped by fire. First-time visitors are often struck by...
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Dyrness, Viereck, Van Cleve
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The objective of this chapter is to evaluate the impact of various environmental factors and inherent growth potential to explain patterns of nutrient use and production of Alaskan taiga forest trees.
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness, Chapin
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Excerpted from preface: 'The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology...
Person: Van Cleve, Chapin, Flanagan, Viereck, Dyrness
Created Year: 1986
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES