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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Payette
The long term fire history at the treeline in Northern Quebec can be evaluated by ecological surveys of the major ecosystems. Available data suggest that fires are presently climate-controlled, and therefore may be used as paleoclimatic indicators. During a cold climatic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lent
Mapping of gross features of snowcover accumulation and melt patterns using LANDSAT (satellite) imagery provides a synoptic view of changing snow conditions affecting migratory caribou, of particular value when used in conjunction with more detailed data from snow stations.…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
Much of the pioneer work in reindeer/caribou range ecology was carried out in the Soviet Union. More recently major contributions to this field of knowledge have been made by Scandinavian and North American biologists. Early work was of a descriptive nature, while a current…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Evidence from 10 years of fire records and 300 years of tree ages and fire scars indicate that forest fires in a large area east of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. are recurrent over a short time interval (<125 years) and related to large scale air mass climate patterns and terrain…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawkes
Mean fire return intervals for different ecological subzones, aspects and elevations in Kananaskis Provincial Park were described. Comparison of the results from this study with others was not practical because of a number of constraints. A discussion of the mean fire return…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck, Schandelmeier
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
A hierarchical system, with five levels of resolution, is proposed for classifying Alaska vegetation. The system, which is agglomerative, starts with 415 known Alaska plant communities which are listed and referenced. At the broadest level of resolution the system contains five…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Schandelmeier
Alaskan land and resource managers are moving from a policy of fire control to one of fire management. To use fire as a tool to reach resource management objectives, managers need information on fire effects and the role of fire in northern environment. The authors searched and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsten, Werner, Laurent
Preface: The USDA Forest Service publication, "Identification of Destructive Alaska Forest Insects" (Hard 1967), dealt mainly with the more damaging forest insects of southeastern Alaska. Since then, our information on forest insects and diseases from south-central and interior…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel, Deeming
Identifies and describes methods for quantifying from field observations 2 key parameters of wildfire behavior: fireline intensity and heat per unit area. Proposes standardization of terms and techniques as a means of improving experimental procedures and communication among…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine
During summer 1977, wildfires burned extensive areas of low arctic tundra in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The present study was initiated in July 1978 to determine the effects of these fires on tundra soils and vegetation. Nine 10 x 1 m permanent transects were established at…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klein
This study developed out of concern of the well-being of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd associated with increasing human utilization and waste, suggestions of past range overstocking, increased exploration and development activities on the calving and summering grounds,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
This report provides an index to the contents of the IS-volume Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conferences held annually from 1962-1974. All of the papers published in the Proceedings are listed by author, date, and title. The contents of these papers can be…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mackay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leader-Williams
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) were introduced into South Georgia in 1911 and 1925, and now form 3 herds. Each herd was at a different stage of an irruptive oscillation when they were studied during 1972-76. The Barff herd had declined in numbers since about 1958, the Royal Bay…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LaPerriere, Lent, Gasaway, Nodler
Vegetation type maps covering approximately 13 million ha of east-central Alaska were made using Landsat multispectral scanner data to analyze moose (Alces alces) habitat. Modified clustering techniques were used: the clustering method has significant advantage over other…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krider, Noggle, Pifer, Vance
Extensive networks of magnetic direction-finding (DF) stations have been installed throughout the western United States and Alaska to facilitate early detection of lightning-caused fires. Each station contains a new wideband direction-finder that responds primarily to cloud-to-…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelleyhouse
From introduction: 'Several recent studies have stressed the role of lightning-caused wildfires as a natural ecological force in northern coniferous forests (Lutz 1956, Viereck 1973). The diversity of vegetation types and wildlife species that presently occurs in Alaska is…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
A bibliography on forest and rangeland fire history containing 307 references was completed during the winter of 1979 and released in the spring of 1980 (Alexander 1979). Nearly five hundred copies have been issued to date. I have casually kept track of new and overlooked…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper surveys available information on fire regimes and methodology employed in elucidating these regimes during the suppression, presuppression and post-glacial periods, principally in the boreal and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest regions of Ontario. The presettlement…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bergerud
Birth and mortality rates are reviewed relative to caribou in North America and related to population growth. Generally caribou first come into estrus at about 29 months of age and under good nutrition some animals can conceive at 17 months of age. The average pregnancy rate for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bangs, Bailey
Moose populations on the Kenai National Moose Range in Alaska were monitored by spring, fall, and winter aerial surveys. Data indicate a positive response in moose productivity and density to disturbance by wildfire. Weather data indicated that summer precipitation and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane
The infiltration rate of snowmelt water into seasonally frozen soils is controlled in part by the amount of ice in the soil pores. The objective of this study was to measure the redistribution of moisture that occurs over the winter season for Fairbanks silt loam and to…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Dubois, Brink
Dispersal of 1- to 3-year-old moose from a low density, but rapidly growing, moose population was investigated. Radio-collars were placed on 17 offspring of previously radio-collared adult cows. Comparison of home ranges of independent off spring and their respective dams…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES