How simple can a model be that still captures essential aspects of wildfire ecosystems at large spatial and temporal scales? The Drossel-Schwabl model (DSM) is a metaphorical forest-fire model developed to reproduce only one pattern of real systems: a...
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Zinck, Johst, Grimm
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Honey baits were used to assess the activity and abundance of nectar-drinking ants in fire successional habitats of rocklands on Andros Island, Bahamas. Vegetation was sampled in pineyard and coppice habitats (the same communities as Florida's...
Person: Koptur, William, Olive
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the...
Person: Schneider, Fernando
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Operant generalization has been demonstrated in neonates only recently. To investigate the development of intradimensional stimulus control immediately after hatching, northern bobwhite chicks (Colinus virginianus) pecked for brief heat presentations...
Person: Schneider, Lickliter
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Aim There remains some uncertainty concerning the causes of extinctions of Madagascar's megafauna. One hypothesis is that they were caused by over-hunting by humans. A second hypothesis is that their extinction was caused by both environmental...
Person: Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Carbon sequestration by forested ecosystems offers a potential climate change mitigation benefit. However, wildfire has the potential to reverse this benefit. In the western United States, climate change and land management practices have led to...
Person: Wiedinmyer, Hurteau
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuel management for wildfire protection is becoming increasingly common in the wildland-urban interface and may have conservation implications for species with restricted distributions and limited dispersal abilities. To evaluate the impact of forest...
Person: Kortello, Ham
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study is described, from its conceptual stage in early 1996 to the completion of its short-term phase in May 2006. Comprising 12 sites, the FFS study is a comprehensive multidisciplinary experiment designed to...
Person: McIver, Weatherspoon
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Climate oscillations such as El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are known to affect temperature and precipitation regimes and fire in different regions of the world. Understanding the relationships between climate...
Person: Meyn, Taylor, Flannigan, Thonicke, Cramer
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD)...
Person: Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS