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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age class structure and spatial…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wilgenburg, Hobson
Boreal forest birds have adapted to changes caused by natural disturbances such as fire and this adaptation forms the basis for the Natural Disturbance Paradigm (NDP) underlying recent proposed changes in forest harvesting practices in western Canada. To date, this paradigm has…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smirnova, Bergeron, Brais
North American jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands are generally characterized by an even-aged structure resulting from high intensity fires (HIF). However, non-lethal fires of moderate intensity (MIF), which leave behind surviving trees, have also been reported. The…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheley, Bates
Restoring range sites dominated by western juniper is central to maintaining healthy functioning shrub-steppe ecosystems. On sites without adequate species composition to respond favorably to juniper controlled by fire, revegetation is necessary. We tested the following two…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saint-Germain, Drapeau, Buddle
Several boreal insect species respond to smoke and heat generated by forest fires and use recent burns to reproduce in high numbers. Some of these species are rare or uncommon in undisturbed forests, and the contribution of recently burned habitats to their population dynamics…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes influenced by forest management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kreyling, Schmiedinger, Macdonald, Beierkuhnlein
Besides natural tree regeneration itself, the development of the forest understory community is highly indicative of the ecological recovery of forest stands post-harvesting, and therefore of the sustainability of forest management. High mountain forests might show particularly…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Horn
We surveyed postfire vegetation at five sites at high elevations (> 2000 m) in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Highlands of the Cordillera Central are dominated by a single pine species, Pinus occidentalis, but plant communities are rich with endemics and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartsough, Abrams, Barbour, Drews, McIver, Moghaddas, Schwilk, Stephens
We collected data at seven sites in the western US, on the costs of fuel reduction operations (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, mechanical plus fire), and measured the effects of these treatments on surface fuel and stand parameters. We also modeled the potential behavior…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doyon, Yamasaki, Duchesneau
The Natural Range of Variability is a concept used under the ecosystem management paradigm that means understanding the disturbance-driven spatial and temporal variability of the ecological systems and mimicking them in management strategies. With this project, we developed a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbour, Zhou, Prestemon
This study reports the results from a 5 year simulation of forest thinning intended to reduce fire hazard on publicly managed lands in the western United States. A state simulation model of interrelated timber markets was used to evaluate the timber product outputs.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yassemi, Dragicevic, Schmidt
The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental modelling has been widely investigated for more than a decade. However, such integration has remained a challenging task due to the temporal changes of environmental processes and the static nature of GIS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paquin
This study provides the first assessment of carabid beetle diversity in a natural forest context that encompasses a complete black spruce (Picea mariana) natural succession. Boreal forest conservation has been based on several assumptions about forest age that only consider…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mack, Treseder, Manies, Harden, Schuur, Vogel, Randerson, Chapin
Plant biomass accumulation and productivity are important determinants of ecosystem carbon (C) balance during post-fire succession. In boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, we quantified aboveground plant biomass and net primary productivity (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arevalo, Peraza, Alvarez, Bermudez, Delgado, Gallardo, Fernandez-Palacios
This study assessed the recovery of the structure and species composition of a laurel forest in an abandoned firebreak in the Rural Park of Anaga, Tenerife (Canary Islands). We statistically compared values of species richness, density and biovolume between 23 plots in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Williamson, Doane
From the text ... 'The Forest Service authorizes broadscale wildland fire use (WFU) both inside and outside wilderness areas in many western forests; but, will agency authoriaztion alone lead to implementation?Understanding barriers and facilitators to WFU implementation is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinez-Hernandez, Rodríguez-Trejo
In the Ajusco volcano, in Central Mexico, prescribed burnings of low and high intensity were applied in March and May 2002, along with one unburned control for March and another for May, considering conditions of open stands and closed stands, with the objective of evaluating,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ziel, Jolly
In 2005, 40 new fire behavior fuel models were published for use with the Rothermel Surface Fire Spread Model. These new models are intended to augment the original 13 developed in 1972 and 1976. As a compiled set of quantitative fuel descriptions that serve as input to the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutherland
From the text (p.292) ... 'Monitoring may be difficult to plan, implement, analyze, interpret, and integrate into the adaptive management process, but long term monitoring on permanent plots often provides the best way, and sometimes the only way, to evaluate the impact of fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rice, Smith
From the Conclusions (p.60) ... 'To determine if fire can be used to reduce invasions by nonnative species, precise knowledge of invasive plant morphology, phenology, and life history must be combined with knowledge of the invaded site, its community composition, condition, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Editorial comment ... 'The trend of increasing wildfire intensity and size likely due to increasing fuel hazards is only one consequence of fire suppression. Another legacy of the fire exclusion paradigm has far reaching implications: an organizational mindset that persistently…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks
From the text (p.45) ... 'In this chapter I have presented a number of examples of how plant invasions can alter fire regimes. Although the ecological implications of these changes can be significant, one must remember that few plant invasions will result in fire regimes shifted…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Fry, Franco-Vizcaino
Knowledge of the ecological effect of wildfire is important to resource managers, especially from forests in which past anthropogenic influences, e.g., fire suppression and timber harvesting, have been limited. Changes to forest structure and regeneration patterns were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS