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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woods, Coates, Hamann
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simon, Schwab
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mantero, Morresi, Marzano, Motta, Mladenoff, Garbarino
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Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on forest disturbance regimes occurring in these human-dominated landscapes. The role of land abandonment in modifying…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moumgiakmas, Samatas, Papakostas
Fire hazard is a condition that has potentially catastrophic consequences. Artificial intelligence, through Computer Vision, in combination with UAVs has assisted dramatically to identify this risk and avoid it in a timely manner. This work is a literature review on UAVs using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tang, Mao, Jin, Chen, Yu, Shi, Zhang, Hoffman, Xu, Wang
Understanding historical wildfire variations and their environmental driving mechanisms is key to predicting and mitigating wildfires. However, current knowledge of climatic responses and regional contributions to the interannual variability (IAV) of global burned area remains…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Jones
Data on fire effects and vegetation recovery are important for assessing the impacts of increasing temperatures and lightning on tundra fire regimes and the implications of increased fire in the Arctic for wildlife and ecosystem processes. This report summarizes information…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pais, Miranda, Carrasco, Shen
Increasing wildfire activity globally has become an urgent issue with enormous ecological and social impacts. In this work, we focus on analyzing and quantifying the influence of landscape topology, understood as the spatial structure and interaction of multiple land-covers in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scholten
This webinar is part of NASA's ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) Northwest Territories focused webinar series.
Topic: Overwintering fires in boreal forests of North AmericaPresenter: Rebecca C. Scholten, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This topic…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vuorio, Kovanen, Budowle, Sajantila, Palo, Stoop
Despite the increased frequency and scale of wildfire-related catastrophes, there has been little or no effective and coordinated international policy to address their highly negative impact. Possibly a generalized approach to respond to such major events could be modeled on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yuan, Restuccia, Rein
As organic porous soil, peat is prone to self-heating ignition, a type of spontaneous initiation of fire that can take place at ambient temperatures without an external source. Despite the urgency to tackle peat fires, the understanding of the self-heating ignition of peat is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moura Batista dos Santos, Bento-Gonçalves, Vieira
Evaluating the impact of wildland fires on landscapes, a pursuit increasingly supported by remote sensing techniques, requires an understanding of wildfire dynamics. This research highlights the main insights from the literature related to “wildfires” and “remote sensing”…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Ban, Nascetti
Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) data exhibits the great potential of enhanced spatial and temporal coverage for monitoring biomass burning which could complement other coarse active fire detection products. This paper aims to investigate the use of reflective…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Zhuang, Shurpali, Köster, Berninger, Pumpanen
Wildfires are a major disturbance to forest carbon (C) balance through both immediate combustion emissions and post-fire ecosystem dynamics. Here we used a process-based biogeochemistry model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to simulate C budget in Alaska and Canada…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster, Polehampton, Yemelyanova, Zhang
The Sentinel-3 satellites each carry the dual-Earth view Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). SLSTR data from the ‘near nadir’ scan are used to produce a set of global, daily active fire (AF) products similar to those produced from MODIS data. The Sentinel-3 AF…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nolde, Plank, Richter, Klein, Riedlinger
Wildfires significantly influence ecosystem patterns and processes on a global scale. In many cases, they pose a threat to human lives and property. Through greenhouse gas emissions, wildfires also directly contribute to climate change. The monitoring of such events and the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heyns, du Plessis, Curtin, Kosch, Hough
Tower-mounted camera-based wildfire detection systems provide an effective means of early forest fire detection. Historically, tower sites have been identified by foresters and locals with intimate knowledge of the terrain and without the aid of computational optimisation tools…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES