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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Urbanski
Smoke from wildland fires has a significant impact on public health and transportation safety and presents a serious complication for air regulators seeking to design effective and efficient emission control strategies to meet and maintain air quality standards. Wildland fires…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jin, Yang, Zhu, Homer
Monitoring and mapping land cover changes are important ways to support evaluation of the status and transition of ecosystems. The Alaska National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 was the first 30-m resolution baseline land cover product of the entire state derived from circa…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Stevens-Rumann, Hessburg
Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather-driven extreme fire events. Because wildfires currently impact an increasing proportion of the total…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hvizdak, Bailey, Fischer, Boykin, Decker
As part of our effort to advance policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species, WLA is offering this interactive practitioner exchange focused on prescribed fire on private land. We are enlisting a panel of experts from across the…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Yedinak, Talhelm, Smith, Bowman, Johnston, Lahm, Fitch, Tinkham
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones
Understanding the economic costs imposed by wildfire smoke is important to evaluating competing fire management approaches and setting appropriate mitigation budgets. The nascent literature on wildfire smoke costs has largely examined the indirect health costs associated with…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kautz, Meddens, Hall, Arneth
Aim: Biotic disturbances (BD, including insects, pathogens and wildlife herbivory) can alter forest structure and the capability of forests to deliver ecosystem services. Impact assessments, however, are limited by the lack of reliable and timely disturbance data at large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shuman, Foster, Shugart, Hoffman-Hall, Krylov, Loboda, Ershov, Sochilova
Change in the Russian boreal forest has the capacity to alter global carbon and climate dynamics. Fire disturbance is an integral determinant of the forest's composition and structure, and changing climate conditions are expected to create more frequent and severe fires. Using…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem’s resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strong, Johnson, Chiariello, Field
Numerous studies have demonstrated that soil respiration rates increase under experimental warming, although the long-term, multiyear dynamics of this feedback are not well constrained. Less is known about the effects of single, punctuated events in combination with other longer…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Villegas, Law, Stark, Minor, Breshears, Saleska, Swann, Garcia, Bella, Morton, Cobb, Barron-Gafford, Litvak, Kolb
Changes in large-scale vegetation structure triggered by processes such as deforestation, wildfires, and tree die-off alter surface structure, energy balance, and associated albedo-all critical for land surface models. Characterizing these properties usually requires long-term…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudspith, Belcher, Barnes, Dash, Kelly, Hu
Wildfires are anticipated to increase in frequency and extent in the Arctic tundra. In the unprecedented 2010 fire season, 37 tundra fires burned 435 km2 of the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska. We sampled sixteen soil monoliths from four of these burned areas, which based on…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al-Hamdan, Pierson, Nearing, Williams, Hernandez, Boll, Nouwakpo, Weltz, Spaeth
Soil erodibility is a key factor for estimating soil erosion using physically based models. In this study, a new parameterization approach for estimating erodibility was developed for the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). The approach uses empirical equations that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conway, Johnstone
Mammalian herbivory on palatable trees affects tree growth, forest composition, and forest succession. Antecedent effects of herbivores can be identified through remnants of dead stems and altered tree morphology as well as changes in tree ring patterns and growth. Increases in…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taudière, Richard, Carcaillet
Millions of hectares of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) forests provide most of the wood resource in the northern hemisphere. Among these forests, those that are fire-prone concentrate an astonishing diversity of mutualistic soil fungi that are pivotal for seedling establishment, tree…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Frey, Conway, Jean, Johnstone
Climate change is expected to increase the extent and severity of wildfires throughout the boreal forest. Historically, black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests in interior Alaska have been relatively free of non-native species, but the compounding effects of climate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Dantas
At a broad (regional to global) spatial scale, tropical vegetation is controlled by climate; at the local scale, it is believed to be determined by interactions between disturbance, vegetation and local conditions (soil and topography) through feedback processes. It has recently…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Riley, Stoof
Wildfire increases the probability of debris flows posing hazardous conditions where values-at-risk exist downstream of burned areas. Conditions and processes leading to postfire debris flows usually follow a general sequence defined here as the postfire debris flow hazard…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balch, Bradley, Abatzoglou, Nagy, Fusco, Mahood
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fish, Peters, Ramsey, Sharplin, Corsini, Eckert
Exposure to smoke emitted from wildfire and planned burns (i.e., smoke events) has been associated with numerous negative health outcomes, including respiratory symptoms and conditions. This rapid review investigates recent evidence (post-2009) regarding the effectiveness of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lamont, He
Fire as a major evolutionary force has been disputed because it is considered to lack supporting evidence. If a trait has evolved in response to selection by fire then the environment of the plant must have been fire-prone before the appearance of that trait. Using outcomes of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Much like the proverbial chicken and egg story, there is debate over whether fire or the adaptations to fire came first for plant species in fire-prone ecosystems. This is significant because if the fire-prone habitats came first, it would be proof that fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Anderegg, Paine, Hoffmann, Kartzinel, Rabin, Sheil, Franco, Pacala
Fire regimes in savannas and forests are changing over much of the world. Anticipating the impact of these changes requires understanding how plants are adapted to fire. In this study, we test whether fire imposes a broad selective force on a key fire-tolerance trait, bark…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ray, Miller
Kris Ray from the Air Quality Program of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation presented his experience monitoring indoor air quality during the 2015 wildfire season, and Dr. Shelly Miller from the University of Colorado shared her findings on the effectiveness of…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This talk will focus on a four-step approach to integrating wildfire planning for the wildland-urban interface (WUI) through a variety of planning and implementation processes that work across departments within local governments. Attendees may wish to review the guide on which…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES