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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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LeResche, Bishop, Coady
Moose (Alces alces) have been present in Alaska since mid- to late-pleistocene times. They probably survived in relatively small, disjunct groups wherever suitable habitat could be found throughout this period, when a tundra-steppe community dominated much of the Alaska refugium…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

LeResche, Davis
Food intake of 3 tame moose (Alces alces) was observed on the Kenai Peninsula during summer on a normal range and during winter and spring on a normal and a depleted range. Plant species and bite sizes were recorded for 49 308 bites consumed. Food eaten varied between summer and…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lenihan, Daly, Bachelet, Neilson
Simulating the impact of fire in a broad-scale Dynamic Vegetation Model (DGVM) used for global change impact assessments requires components and concepts not part of existing fire modeling systems. The focus shifts from fire behavior and danger at the small scale to the system-…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Legare, Bergeron, Paré
In the western boreal forest of Quebec, black spruce stand productivity is approximately 1 m(3)/ha/year. The low productivity of these stands is often attributed to the paludification process, which is sustained by low quality black spruce litter and the influence of black…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Lee
This paper compares seed and vegetative banks, and the emergent understorey in unburned, lightly burned, and intensely burned patches within an aspen-dominated boreal forest in northeastern Alberta, Canada. Propagule banks were measured immediately after the fire, while the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lee, Sturgess
This study examined the role of logs, stumps, and root throws on the understorey composition of aspen (Populus tremuloides) dominated boreal forests. Measures of microsite coverage and suitability, and vascular plant composition and abundance were taken from 28-year-old wildfire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lecomte, Simard, Bergeron
The effects of fire severity and initial post-fire tree composition on long-term stand structural development were investigated in the Picea mariana-feathermoss bioclimatic domain of northwestern Québec. Paleoecological methods were used to categorize the severity of the last…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Leblon, Garcia, Oldford, MacLean, Flannigan
In Canada, fire danger is rated by the Canadian forest fire danger rating system (CFFDRS). One of its components is the fire weather index (FWI) system, which has among others the drought code (DC). DC is used here as a surrogate of dead forest fuel moisture. DC values were…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Leblon, Alexander, Chen, White
The objective of this study was to assess the potential of remote sensing from satellites for monitoring forest fire danger in northern Canadian boreal forests. In Canada, daily forest fire danger is rated by the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. One of its components…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Leader-Williams
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) were introduced into South Georgia in 1911 and 1925, and now form 3 herds. Each herd was at a different stage of an irruptive oscillation when they were studied during 1972-76. The Barff herd had declined in numbers since about 1958, the Royal Bay…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lay
Description not entered.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lawrence, Hulbert
Lupinus spp. and Alnus crispa subsp. sinuata are the first plants to look healthy and grow rapidly on cold raw mineral deposits exposed through glacier recession. Lupin causes associated willows, grasses and fire-weed to bloom and to grow several times as fast as plants growing…
Year: 1950
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lawler, White, Neilson, Blaustein
Predicted changes in the global climate are likely to cause large shifts in the geographic ranges of many plant and animal species. To date, predictions of future range shifts have relied on a variety of modeling approaches with different levels of model accuracy. Using a common…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lavoie, Paré, Fenton, Groot, Taylor
The Clay Belt region of Quebec and Ontario supports a large forest resource and an important forest industry. In this region, the majority of the harvested volume allotted to forest companies is in forested peatlands and boreal forests prone to paludification. Paludification is…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

LaPerriere, Lent, Gasaway, Nodler
Vegetation type maps covering approximately 13 million ha of east-central Alaska were made using Landsat multispectral scanner data to analyze moose (Alces alces) habitat. Modified clustering techniques were used: the clustering method has significant advantage over other…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

LaPerriere, Lent
Caribou select areas of relatively shallow snow for winter feeding, and do so on at least two levels: broad area and microsite. They do not normally select sites with snow-packs having mean integrated Ram hardness values in excess of 85. However, in areas of relatively shallow…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lance, Howell, Lance, Howlin, Suring, Goldstein
Changes in structure and function of spruce forests occurred following a recent spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) epidemic in the temperate forests of south-central Alaska, USA. To assess the effects of this infestation and the subsequent land management practices used to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lal
Soils in equilibrium with a natural forest ecosystem have high carbon (C) density. The ratio of soil:vegetation C density increases with latitude. Land use change, particularly conversion to agricultural ecosystems, depletes the soil C stock. Thus, degraded agricultural soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lafleur, Schreader
Evapotranspiration was measured from a subarctic forest near Churchhill, Manitoba, during July and August 1992. Total stand evapotranspiration was measured via standard micrometeorological techniques; evaporation and transpiration from several components of the forest floor were…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Laberge, Payette, Pitre
Black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant tree species across the North American boreal forest. In the northernmost parts of its natural range, the species thrives in the form of scattered or aggregated stunted clones (krummholz) in winter-exposed subarctic and arctic sites.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Laberge, Payette, Bousquet
Slow growth, maintenance of a high leaf:wood ratio and adoption of a clonal growth habit, more than size per se, may increase the life span in trees species. The longevity of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP.) is increased from 200 to 300 years, when it grows as a clonal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kuuluvainen, Aapala, Ahlroth, Kuusinen, Lindholm, Sallantaus, Siitonen, Tukia
This paper outlines the general principles and approaches such as controlled use of fire, and creating small gaps and dead trees for the restoration of boreal forest and peatland ecosystems, which are largely based on experiences in Finland.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kushida, Isaev, Takao, Maximov, Fukuda
We evaluated the estimation of the area ratios of the land categories including the total-burn/wither and surface-burn areas following a wildfire in East Siberia. We obtained the land classification from 30-m resolution Landsat ETM+ image data and used it for evaluating the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kukavskaya
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES