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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keeley, Pausas, Rundel, Bond, Bradstock
Traits, such as resprouting, serotiny and germination by heat and smoke, are adaptive in fire-prone environments. However, plants are not adapted to fire per se but to fire regimes. Species can be threatened when humans alter the regime, often by increasing or decreasing fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Joly
Climate change is likely to bring a myriad of interrelated changes to the Arctic. One change is warmer and drier conditions that could increase the prevalence of wildfire in northwest Alaska. Wildfires destroy terricolous lichens that Western Arctic Herd caribou (Rangifer…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sommers, Coloff, Conard
The proposed research will deliver a synthesis of Fire History information in relation to Climate Change (FHCC), which will include guidance for managers on how this information can be considered in making decisions. The synthesis and supporting literature knowledge base will be…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Camp, Cronan, McKenzie
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognizes the critical role of wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson
Diana Olson, University of Idaho - FRAMES, presents the project Compiling, Synthesizing and Analyzing Existing Boreal Forest Fire History Data in Alaska at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 6, 2011. The three primary objectives of this project…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fay, Bastian, Nelson, Natharius, Peterson, Lundberg, Dillon, Long, Rollins, Reeves, Smail, Kurth, Ohlen, Martin, Smith, Napoli, Sorbel, Henderson
This two part webinar series focused on LANDFIRE National products that are currently available to Alaska. The scope and schedule of the LANDFIRE Refresh project will also be briefly discussed along with many other interesting topics. Part 1 of the webinar series focused on: A)…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Loboda, Giglio, French, Hoy, de Jong, Riaño
A synthesis was carried out to analyze information available to quantify fire activity and burned area across North America, including a comparison of different data sources and an assessment of how variations in burned area estimate impact carbon emissions from fires. Data sets…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, McGuire, Hoy, Kasischke
Large fire years in which >1% of the landscape burns are becoming more frequent in the Alaskan (USA) interior, with four large fire years in the past 10 years, and 79 000 km2 (17% of the region) burned since 2000. We modeled fire severity conditions for the entire area burned…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Urban, Hu
Tundra fires have important ecological impacts on vegetation, wildlife, permafrost, and carbon cycling, but the pattern and controls of historic tundra fire regimes are poorly understood. We use sediment records from four lakes to develop a 2000-yr fire and vegetation history in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zheng, Heath, Ducey, Smith
We estimated forest area and carbon changes in the conterminous United States using a remote sensing based land cover change map, forest fire data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program, and forest growth and harvest data from the USDA Forest Service, Forest…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zeng, Wang
The ratios of observed organic carbon (OC) to elemental carbon (EC) from the rural sites of the IMPROVE network are analyzed for the 5-year period from 2000 to 2004. Among these years, nationwide OC/EC peaks are observed most consistently in the summer of 2002. Several potential…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, McMillan, Winston, Rocha, Manies, Harden, Bond-Lamberty
We combined year-round eddy covariance with biometry and biomass harvests along a chronosequence of boreal forest stands that were 1, 6, 15, 23, 40, ~74, and ~154 years old to understand how ecosystem production and carbon stocks change during recovery from stand-replacing crown…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, de Groot, Jenkins, Rogers, Alvarado, Amiro, de Jong, Goetz, Hoy, Hyer, Keane, Law, McKenzie, McNulty, Ottmar, Perez-Salicrup, Randerson, Robertson, Turetsky
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pan, Chen, Birdsey, McCullough, He, Deng
Most forests of the world are recovering from a past disturbance. It is well known that forest disturbances profoundly affect carbon stocks and fluxes in forest ecosystems, yet it has been a great challenge to assess disturbance impacts in estimates of forest carbon budgets. Net…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS