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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kreidenweis, Pierce
Although representing only a small mass fraction of the emissions from biomass burning, the emitted particle-phase organic species (organic aerosol, OA) exert importance influences on visibility, climate, and human health. Wildland fire, both prescribed and wildfires, is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Pan, Dangal, Zhang, Wang, Tian
Knowledge and information of post-fire vegetation recovery are essential for our understanding of ecosystem stability and resilience in response to present and future disturbances. Although previous studies have examined the post-fire vegetation recovery at landscape and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lake, Wright, Morgan, McFadzen, McWethy, Stevens-Rumann
Indigenous peoples' detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists…. Instead, scientists have developed the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allaby, Juday, Young
Post-harvest regeneration failure of white spruce (Picea glauca Moench [Voss]), has led to concerns of 'de-coniferization' on productive site in the Alaskan boreal forest. Forest management in the region sought historically to increase spruce composition after harvest through…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skaggs, Rizza, Cardwell
Addressing ‘climate change’ at the local, state, or Tribal-level may feel like trying to tackle an amorphous idea, on top of an already heavy work load. The natural hazards mitigation plan, however, can provide a structured format for addressing specific impacts of climate…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jactel, Bauhus, Boberg, Bonal, Castagneyrol, Gardiner, González-Olabarria, Koricheva, Meurisse, Brockerhoff
Purpose of review: Forests are frequently exposed to natural disturbances, which are likely to increase with global change, and may jeopardize the delivery of ecosystem services. Mixed-species forests have often been shown to be more productive than monocultures, but it is…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Clements
The goal of this project was to develop the Plume Dynamics and Meteorology portion of the Study Plan for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). The Investigators participated in regular meetings with the other discipline leads, modeling leads, and the science…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Birdsey
Fire is a major ecosystem disturbance that profoundly impacts vegetation dynamics, atmospheric trace gases and aerosol composition, climate, and the welfare of wildlife and human society. While climate is generally a critical driving factor shaping the occurrence, size, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Horowitz, Payton, Fiore, Tonnesen
US surface O3 responds to varying global-to-regional precursor emissions, climate, and extreme weather, with implications for designing effective air quality control policies. We examine these conjoined processes with observations and global chemistry-climate model (GFDL-AM3)…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dove, Hart
Soil fungal communities perform many functions that help plants meet their nutritional demands. However, overall trends for fungal response to fire, which can be especially critical in a post-fire context, have been difficult to elucidate. We used meta-analytical techniques to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich, Broyles, Ottmar, Reinhardt, Naeher, Kleinman, Navarro, Mackay, Adetona
Wildland fire smoke is a complex mixture of air contaminants that have the potential cause adverse health effects. Individuals can be exposed occupationally if they work as wildland firefighters or public exposure from ambient air that is contaminated with smoke from a nearby or…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coyle, Nagendra, Taylor, Campbell, Cunard, Joslin, Mundepi, Phillips, Callaham
Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely acknowledged to be important drivers of biogeochemical function, soil structure and sustainability, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Stevens, Miller, Stephens, Brown, North
Context: The proportion of fire area that experienced stand-replacing fire effects is an important attribute of individual fires and fire regimes in forests, and this metric has been used to group forest types into characteristic fire regimes. However, relying on proportion…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fires are increasing in frequency, size and intensity partly due to climate change and land management practices, yet there is limited knowledge of the impacts of smoke emissions - both short term and long term. EPA is using its expertise in air quality research to fill the gaps…
Year: 2017
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich, Ottmar
In summary, the toxicological and epidemiological evidence of adverse effects for those with chronic exposure to smoke is troubling, especially so for those with preexisting cardiovascular health conditions. What the research means for healthy workers is less clear. It seems…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Heald, Robinson, Val Martin
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. Fire activity is strongly related to weather and climate. Recent observations have shown an upward…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Ribeiro
Aim: Understanding the drivers of global diversity has challenged ecologists for decades. Drivers related to the environment, productivity and heterogeneity are considered primary factors, whereas disturbance has received less attention. Given that fire is a global factor that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landry, Matthews
The incomplete combustion of vegetation and dead organic matter by landscape fires creates recalcitrant pyrogenic carbon (PyC), which could be consequential for the global carbon budget if changes in fire regime, climate, and atmospheric CO2 were to substantially affect gains…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
The growing frequency of large wildland fires has raised awareness of the ‘wildfire paradox’ and the ‘firefighting trap’ that are both rooted in the fire exclusion paradigm. However, a paradigm shift has been unfolding in the wildland fire community that seeks to restore fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nagano, Iwata
Alaska wildfires may play an important role in nitrogen (N) dry deposition in Alaskan boreal forests. Here we used annual N dry deposition data measured by CASTNET at Denali National Park (DEN417) during 1999-2013, to evaluate the relationships between wildfire extent and N dry…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United States we examined how destructive wildfire affected altered progress towards becoming fire-adapted, focusing…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith
On June 1, 2015, the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Branch of Research. Established in 1915 to centralize and elevate the pursuit of research throughout the agency, the Branch of Research focused on…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Urban Interface Wildfire Mitigation Desk Reference Guide is designed to provide basic background information on relevant programs and terminology for those, whether community members or agency personnel, who are seeking to enhance their community’s wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutchen, Volkmann, Hodges
Climate change is altering fire regimes. As fire regimes change, it is important to understand how mammals respond to these altered post-fire landscapes. Because fires vary in size, severity and landscape context, it is important to know the experimental designs and response…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
Photochemical grid models such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) are used to estimate local to continental scale O3, PM, and haze for scientific and regulatory assessments. Field data from specific and well characterized wildland fires is critically important…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES