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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Lumley, Gignac, Currah
Fallen logs of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and white spruce (Picea glauca) at various stages of decomposition were sampled from undisturbed and 1-, 14-, and 28-year-old post-fire and post-harvest sites in northern Alberta, Canada, and studied for differences in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lugo, Swanson, González, Adams, Palik, Thill, Brockway, Kern, Woodsmith, Musselman
The network of experimental forests and ranges administered by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service consists of 77 properties that are representative of most forest cover types and many ecological regions in the nation. Established as early as 1908, these sites…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lubowski, Plantinga, Stavins
When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies ù such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation ù should be part of the domestic portfolio of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Loranger, Bailey, Larned
Data from standardized aerial surveys during 1964-90 were used to study the timing, extent and rate of decline of winter densities of moose (Alces alces) in early seral forest burned in 1969 (13-21 yr post-fire), in mid-successional forest burned in 1947 (17-43 yr post-fire) and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Liu, Randerson, Lindfors, Chapin
Understanding links between the disturbance regime and regional climate in boreal regions requires observations of the surface energy budget from ecosystems in various stages of secondary succession. While several studies have characterized fire-induced differences in surface…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Little
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Year: 1953
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Linn, Winterkamp, Edminster, Colman, Smith
Ten simulations were performed with the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behaviour model in order to explore its utility in studying wildfire behaviour in inhomogeneous topography. The goal of these simulations is to explore the potential extent of the coupling between the fire,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Liljedahl, Hinzman, Busey, Yoshikawa
The Kougarok area, situated on the central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, experienced a severe fire in August 2002. This may be the only tundra fire where high-quality prefire (1999-2002) and postfire (2003-2006) active layer and meteorology measurements have been collected in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Liew, Kwoh, Padmanabhan, Lim, Him
Cloud-penetrating C-band synthetic aperture radar imagery acquired during two ERS-1/2 tandem missions (April 1996 and October 1997) was used in mapping burnt areas in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 1997 Southeast Asia forest fire episode. Vegetated areas were classified…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lieffers, Macdonald, Hogg
Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beauv. is a widely distributed rhizomatous grass that can seriously inhibit growth of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seedlings in the boreal forests of North America. We review the dynamics of this grass during four successional…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Li, Fraser, Jin, Abuelgasim, Csiszar, Gong, Pu, Hao
This paper presents an evaluation of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)-based remote sensing algorithms for detecting active vegetation fires [Li et al., 2000a] and mapping burned areas [Fraser et al., 2000] throughout North America. The procedures were originally…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Li, Nadon, Cihlar
This study presents a comprehensive investigation of fires across the Canadian boreal forest zone by means of satellite-based remote sensing. A fire-detection algorithm was designed to monitor fires using daily Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images. It exploits…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Li, Guritz, Logan, Shindle, Groves, Olmsted, Carsey, Macmahon
One of the largest terrain corrected synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaics, a mosaic of the state of Alaska, was created from 800 ERS-1 SAR summer images. Because of rain events, significant temporal changes of soil moisture often cause substantial changes in the signature of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Li, Kaufman, Hao, Meghan Salmon, Gao
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra and Aqua spacecrafts have several visible and near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolutions of 250, 500, and 1 km for remote sensing of land…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lewis, Lindgren
Disturbance patterns in the sub-boreal spruce forests of central British Columbia (Canada) have long been thought to result from frequent stand-initiating fires. However, recent evidence suggests that fires in the wetter areas of this region are infrequent (intervals of >500…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lertzman, Gavin, Hallett, Brubaker, Lepofsky, Mathewes
Coastal temperate rainforests from southeast Alaska through to southern Oregon are ecologically distinct from forests of neighboring regions, which have a drier, or more continental, climate and disturbance regimes dominated by fires. The long-term role of fire remains one of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

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

Lentile, Holden, Smith, Falkowski, Hudak, Morgan, Lewis, Gessler, Benson
Space and airborne sensors have been used to map area burned, assess characteristics of active fires, and characterize post-fire ecological effects. Confusion about fire intensity, fire severity, burn severity, and related terms can result in the potential misuse of the inferred…
Year: 2006
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