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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Agee, Huff
Goals for vegetation management in wilderness areas have been difficult to define. Short return interval, low-intensity fire regimes offer the most promise for structurally oriented vegetation management goals, although there are some long-return interval or high-intensity fire…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Acuna, Palma, Weintraub, Martell, Cui
Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management, but most timber harvest planning and fire management planning activities are carried out largely independently of each other. But road construction, timber harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Goodrick, Liu
The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium (SHRMC) is one of five regional Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) consortia established as part of the National Fire Plan. FCAMMS involves research and development activities collaborating…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada
The forests of interior Alaska are used for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. Multiple- or single-use management of these forests requires a working knowledge of how these uses affect the sustained yield or availability of a particular product or use. Many biotic…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Argyle
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yevdokimenko
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yefremova, Yefremov
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The primary environmental variable that appears to regulate the function and, to some extent, the structure of Alaskan taiga ecosystems is soil temperature (Van Cleve et al. 1983, Van Cleve and Dyrness 1983). The structural and functional changes that occur in relation to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yanovski, Kiselev
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
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 species often differ among…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, de Groot
Residents of Canada and other northern circumpolar countries are concerned with the scenarios of climate change since Global Circulation Models predict that global warming over the next 30-50 years will be most evident in the northern regions (Bolin et at. 1986; Roots 1989;…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein
Throughout the boreal circumpolar North almost all terrestrial ecosystems exhibit soil organic matter accumulation, with increased accumulation at higher soil moisture levels. Fire frequencies in organic terrain are very low compared with drier ecosystems such as those dominated…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein, MacLean
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volokitina
The subject matter of this paper is a new area in the field of pyrology (wildland fire science) in Russia, the mapping of vegetation fuels (VF). Methods of composing VF maps of middle and large scales are briefly explained, along with the purpose of such maps. A classification…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volney
Insects are the most diverse group of terrestrial animals. Not surprisingly, they influence several ecosystem processes and thus have a profound influence in most terrestrial ecosystems by occupying a myriad o f niches. The reciprocal interaction of insects with forest plants…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Lear, Wurtz
Forest restoration, in a general sense, suggests a transition from a degraded state to some 'natural' condition, presumably devoid of human influence (Stanturf, this volume). Yet, because nearly all temperate and boreal forests have been influenced to varying and unknown degrees…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Yarie
Dominating all aspects of forest ecosystem structure and function in the Alaskan taiga is the cold environment. Low mean annual temperature (-3.5°C) and a short growing season (90–100 days) result in a restricted period during which biological activity may occur in these forests…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valendik
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tolonen
Knowledge of the post-glacial fire history assists in understanding ecological questions such as succession and stability of the vegetation mosaic, the dependence of flora on fire, and ecological consequences of fires to lakes and bogs. This information is incorporated in peat…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telitsyn
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Telfer
Moose (Alces alces) are the largest surviving land mammals in the circumpolar boreal forests and the largest living representatives of the deer family (Cervidae). The weights of adult bulls in Alberta averaged 477 kg in early winter when adult females averaged 402 kg (Canadian…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sykes, Prentice
Changes in the global carbon (C) cycle caused by human activities have focused the attention of environmental scientists on where and how C is distributed through the terrestrial biosphere. Forests are the largest land reservoir for C (e.g., see Kellomäki and Karjalainen,…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES