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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Year

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Secular climate change in old-growth tree-line vegetation of northern Quebec

Payette, Filion, Gauthier, Boutin
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

Payette, Gagnon
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

CITPUFF: a Gaussion puff model for estimating pollutant concentration in complex terrain

Ross, Fox, Dietrich, Childs, Marlatt
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire policies and programs for the National Park System

Butts
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tundra fire regimes in the Noatak River Watershed, Alaska: 1956-83

Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1 000 000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada

Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands.(2) Macrofossil analysis of mor humus profiles in mature…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A decade with the Forestry Weather Interpretation System (FWIS)

Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Nuclear winter: will the forests burn

Reifsnyder, Berry
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-index to their calibration coefficients including potential evapotranspiration

Karl
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Palmer Drought Index and its availability as an indicator of forest fire watch areas

Heddinghaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought and synoptic fire climatology of the boreal forest region of the Canada prairie provinces

Street
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fire danger and fire occurrence for wilderness fire management

Saveland
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather -- the drive train connecting the solar engine to forest ecosystems: Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, No. 8

[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Getting burned: a taxpayer's guide to wildfire suppression costs

Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tundra burning in Alaska: linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat

Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire risk inferred from tree rings in the Central Laurentians of boreal Quebec, Canada

Girardin
Recent fire years 2002 and 2005 have been, in the context of the past 40 years, exceptional in Quebec, with area burned totalling over 1.8 million hectares. Without prolonged fire statistics and meteorological records, it remains difficult to place these events in the contexts…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

NCEP-ECPC monthly to seasonal US fire danger forecasts

Roads, Tripp, Juang, Wang, Fujioka, Chen
Five National Fire Danger Rating System indices (including the Ignition Component, Energy Release Component, Burning Index, Spread Component, and the Keetch-Byram Drought Index) and the Fosberg Fire Weather Index are used to characterise US fire danger. These fire danger indices…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Four millennia of woodland structure and dynamics at the Arctic treeline of eastern Canada

Auger, Payette
Paleoecological analysis using complementary indicators of vegetation and soil can provide spatially explicit information on ecological processes influencing trajectories of long-term ecosystem change. Here we document the structure and dynamics of an old-growth woodland before…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tree and forest encroachment into fescue grasslands on the Cypress Hills plateau, southeast Alberta, Canada

Widenmaier, Strong
Tree encroachment into rough fescue (Festuca campestris) grassland has been identified as an ecological concern on the Cypress Hills plateau in southeastern Alberta, Canada. A combination of field sampling (109 transects), a dendrochronological assessment (1361 trees), and a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Will climate change overwhelm fire management capacity?

Podur, Wotton
Using anomalies calculated from General Circulation Model (GCM) climate predictions we developed scenarios of future fire weather, fuel moisture and fire occurrence and used these as the inputs to a fire growth and suppression simulation model for the province of Ontario, Canada…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Emissions of gases and particles from biomass burning during the 20th century using satellite data and an historical reconstruction

Mieville, Granier, Liousse, Guillaume, Mouillot, Lamarque, Gregoire, Petron
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seasonality of vegetation fires as modified by human action: observing the deviation from eco-climatic fire regimes

Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cloud forest dynamics in the Mexican neotropics during the last 1300 years

Figueroa-Rangel, Willis, Olvera-Vargas
Key questions for understanding the resilience and variability of Mexican Neotropical cloud forest assemblages in current and future climate change include: How have human disturbances and climate change affected the dynamics of the cloud forest assemblage? What are the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Does soil organic layer thickness affect climate-growth relationships in the black spruce boreal ecosystem?

Drobyshev, Simard, Bergeron, Hofgaard
The observed long-term decrease in the regional fire activity of Eastern Canada results in excessive accumulation of organic layer on the forest floor of coniferous forests, which may affect climate-growth relationships in canopy trees. To test this hypothesis, we related tree-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
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 change and hunting. This paper…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS