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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Molnar, McMinn
Basal scarring, a conspicuous abnormality of western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) and its associated species in the Interior region of British Columbia, was found to be chiefly attributable to injury by bears, infections of Armillaria mellea (Vahl ex Fr.) Quel., fire,…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mölders, Kramm
As especially observed during the 2004 Alaska fire season, huge wildfires drastically alter land cover leading to a change in the dynamic (roughness length), radiative (albedo, emissivity), vegetative (vegetation type and fraction, stomatal resistance), thermal (soil heating,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith
Observations were made on Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in mature Picea glauca forest during 2 years of cone crop failure. For the first winter an adequate supply of old Spruce cones cached in previous years was available. The second crop failure brought about a 67% drop in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Skogland
Snow profiles were sampled along an east-west gradient in wild reindeer home range from winter ground in the east to calving ground in the west. Hardness to ramsonde at Finse (west) increased from 22 to 359 kg from early to late winter; hardness in the winter habitat (east)…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Raup
The Aleutian Islands are treeless except for some plantations of Spruce on Unalaska. Their principal vegetation types are meadow and heath-shrub communities. In some places thickets of Willow (Salix barclayi) are interspersed with the subalpine meadows. The southern and southern…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Raup
Preliminary report of geological and botanical investigations carried out along the Alaska Highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse during the summer of 1943. The forest types are discussed in detail. It is concluded that stands of Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and Lodgepole…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pegau
Two exclosures esablished during the 1920's were reexamined in 1965. In the dwarf shrub-lichen type browse species suppressed recovery of lichens. Full recovery of lichens had not occurred within 33 years. In several disturbed quadrats in the Dryas field-field type, recovery…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pegau
A herd of approximately 500 reindeer was herded over a non-utilized portion of a large Eriophorum-Carex-dwarf shrub meadow near Nome, Alaska during both moist and dry conditions. After one summer of use on approximately 17 sections by the reindeer, 68% of the lichens were…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pegau
The average annual linear rates of growth of Cladonia alpestris, C. rangiferina and C. sylvatica on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, were determined to be 5.0, 5.3, and 5.4 mm, respectively. These averages are higher than those of northern Canada and some areas in the U.S.S.R.…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Peek
This review covers 41 studies of moose food habits, including 13 from the intermountain west, 6 from Alaska, and 22 from Canada, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Maine. Only nine of these studies include information on summer food habits, only four on year-long food habits and only…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pech
Four reindeer lichen (Cladina rangiferina (L.) Nyl) samples were placed near ground level in the open at a meteorological station where dew and other meteorological parameters were measured. One sample was covered occasionally from sunset to sunrise to prevent dew and to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mladenoff
This paper provides contextual documentation of the LANDIS model development to provide a framework for the other papers in this special issue. The LANDIS model of forest landscape disturbance and succession was developed since the early 1990s as a research and management tool…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller
Several strategies are available for reducing accumulated forest fuels and their associated risks, including naturally or accidentally ignited wildland fires, management ignited prescribed fires, and a variety of mechanical and chemical methods (Omi 1996). However, a combination…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Michalek, French, Kasischke, Johnson, Colwell
Fire disturbance in boreal forests can release carbon to the atmosphere stored in both the aboveground vegetation and the organic soil layer. Estimating pyrogenic emissions of carbon released during biomass burning in these forests is useful for understanding and estimating…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Messier, Huot, Le Henaff, Luttich
The George River herd in northern Quebec/Labrador increased from about 5000 animals in 1945 to 472,200 (or 1.1 caribou multiplied by km^-2) prior to the 1984 calving season. The range used by the herd expanded from 160,000 to 442,000 km2 for the period 1971-84. The exponential…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Messier, Parent, Bergeron
The percentage of above-canopy photosynthetic photon flux density (%PPFD) was measured at 0.50 and 100 cm above the forest floor and above the main understorey vegetation in virgin stands of (1) pure Betula papyrifera (white birch, deciduous), (2) pure Populus tremuloides (…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mell, Jenkins, Gould, Cheney
Physics-based coupled fire-atmosphere models are based on approximations to the governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion, and the thermal degradation of solid fuel. They require significantly more computational resources than the most commonly used fire spread models,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

McLean
There is a close relationship between root system characteristics and the relative fire resistance of Douglas fir forest zone species in southern interior British Columbia. Susceptible species are usually those that have fibrous root systems or produce stolons or rhizomes which…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

McKenzie, Peterson, Alvarado
Models of vegetation change in response to global warming need to incorporate the effects of disturbance at broad spatial scales. Process-based predictive models, whether for fire behavior or fire effects on vegetation, assume homogeneity of crucial inputs over the spatial scale…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

McIver, Starr
Literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environmental effects of logging activity and the removal of large woody structure. As in unburned stands, log retrieval systems vary considerably in their immediate effect on soils in the postfire environment,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

McGuire, Apps
Contains information about the conference itinerary and abstracts from this conference.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McGee, Feller
The species composition and density of seed banks in the forest floors and mineral soils of several undisturbed (immature, midseral forests) and disturbed (transmission line rights-of-way) ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia were estimated using the seedling-emergence…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McEwan, Whitehead
The relationship between energy intake and body weight of reindeer and caribou are summarized. The results indicate that caloric intake was 35-45% lower in winter than during the summer growth period. The relation between heat production and body weight also exhibited a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McBride
About 2.3 million acres were burned by wildfires in Alaska in 1977, an exceptionally bad year when the reversal of normal patterns of rainfall caused an unusually dry August. Major fires are described and the ways in which they were tackled are outlined. Resource Impact Advisory…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES