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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnson
The variances of species abundances from 141 upland stands are partitioned into habitat and fire frequency. Principal components analysis is then performed on each of these partitions. The habitat ordination has a topographic-canopy coverage gradient and a nutrient gradient. The…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
The Weibull distribution is shown to fit well with empirical data of fire intervals for a population of sites. The distribution demonstrates that the recurrence of fire in the subarctic forests of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is predictable. The three parameters of the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson
A study was made of buried seeds in 62 cylindrical cores of litter and soil (10 cm diameter X 10 cm depth) collected from 10 sites, on which fires had occurred 42-180 years previously, on upland soil with a vegetation of lichen woodland and a tree canopy of Picea mariana, P.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
The Haines Index, an operational fire-weather index introduced in 1988 and based on the observed stability and moisture content of the near-surface atmosphere, has been a useful indicator of the potential for high-risk fires in low wind conditions and flat terrain. The Haines…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Joly, Meyers, Racine
Lichen regeneration timelines are needed to establish sound fire management guidelines for caribou (Rangifer tarandus) winter range. Paired burned and unburned permanent vegetative cover transects were established after 1981, 1977, and 1972 tundra fires in northwestern Alaska to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Models for moose density were developed using subsets of remotely sensed habitat variables in north-central Alaska. Macro-habitat factors explained from 60-70% of the variation in November moose densities using a regression model. Use of logistic regression allowed correct…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jaatinen, Knief, Dunfield, Yrjala, Fritze
Methane-oxidizing bacteria are the only terrestrial sink for atmospheric methane. Little is known, however, about the methane-oxidizing bacteria that are responsible for the consumption of atmospheric methane, or about the factors that influence their activity and diversity in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Construction of fuelbreaks as a presuppression fuels treatment strategy in national forests has always been controversial (Omi 1996). Criticisms have been raised over the objectives, prescriptions, locations, methods, costs, impacts, and effectiveness of fuelbreak construction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Imbeau, Savard, Gagnon
Comparisons of the effects of logging and fire as disturbance agents on the composition of bird assemblages in boreal ecosystems are still lacking or are limited to the short-term impacts of clear felling. In Quebec, Canada, where the boreal forest is largely dominated by black…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ichoku, Kaufman, Giglio, Li, Fraser, Jin, Park
Two fixed-threshold (CCRS and ESA) and three contextual (GIGLIO, IGBP, and MODIS) algorithms were used for fire detection with Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer data acquired over Canada during the 1995 fire season. The CCRS algorithm was developed for the boreal…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ice, Neary, Adams
Wildfire can cause water repellency and consume plant canopy, surface plants and litter, and structure-enhancing organics within soil. Changes in soil moisture, structure, and infiltration can accelerate surface runoff, erosion, sediment transport, and deposition. Intense…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hyer, Allen, Kasischke
Boreal forest fires are highly variable in space and time and also have variable vertical injection properties. We compared a University of Maryland Chemistry and Transport Model (UMD-CTM) simulation of boreal forest fire CO in the summer of 2000 to surface observations from the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyer, Kasischke, Allen
The quality of temporal information from daily burned area inputs was evaluated using a transport and chemistry experiment. Carbon monoxide emissions from boreal forest fires were estimated using burned area inputs with daily resolution. Averaging of emissions data to create 30-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hudak, Fairbanks, Brockett
Climate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes.Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity. The objective was to compare effects of alternative land use practices on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Brockett
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCullough, Werner, Neumann
Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martell
This paper contains discussions proving that fire suppression has been effective in boreal forests in Ontario, Canada.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martell
A Markov chain is used to model day to day changes in the Fire Weather Index (FWI) component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The results of statistical analyses of 26 years (1963-1988) of fire weather data recorded at 15 fire weather stations located across the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marsh, Arnone, Bormann, Gordon
Although plants of Equisetum spp. are generally thought to be of little value to ecosystems, as study of a cold-temperature Alaskan shrub wetland showed that they acquired and cycled phosphorus and other nutrients more efficiently than other plant community members. While…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loso
The dynamics of white spruce (Picea glauca) in a sparsely populated Alaskan valley (Kennicott Valley, USA) were examined for management of subsistence firewood and house-log harvest. Site index, disturbance history, current productivity, and population age structure of white…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leung, Logan, Park, Hyer, Kasischke, Streets, Yurganov
Carbon monoxide reached record high levels in the northern extratropics in the late summer and fall of 1998 as a result of anomalously large boreal fires in eastern Russia and North America. We investigated the effects of these fires on CO and tropospheric oxidants using a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kevan, Tikhmenev, Usui
Pollination systems in the boreal zone range from generalist to specialist, both entomologically and botanically. The relative importance of wind pollination, insect pollination, sexual separation between and within plants, and between flowers, hermaphroditism of flowers, and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kershaw, Rouse
The water relations of Cladonia alpestris in spruce-lichen woodland in northern Ontario is described. The rate of drying of the lichen canopy was measured by resistance grids inserted into the canopy and monitored during the drying cycle. The effects of dew were measured in a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES