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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Krawchuk, Cumming, Flannigan
Forecasting future fire activity as a function of climate change is a step towards understanding the future state of the western mixedwood boreal ecosystem. We developed five annual weather indices based on the Daily Severity Rating (DSR) of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kardynal, Hobson, Van Wilgenburg, Morissette
Forest harvesting strategies that approximate natural disturbances have been proposed as a means of maintaining natural species' diversity and richness in the boreal forests of North America. Natural disturbances impact shoreline forests and upland areas at similar rates.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hebblewhite, Munro, Merrill
Controversy surrounds postfire logging, often because of negative effects on snag-dependent wildlife species. Few studies, however, have examined effects on early-seral species that may benefit from postfire logging, nor effects on trophic relationships. We studied the effects…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eiswerth, Krauter, Swanson, Zielinski
Since the mid-1980s, sagebrush rangelands in the Great Basin of the United States have experienced more frequent and larger wildfires. These fires affect livestock forage, the sagebrush/grasses/forbs mosaic that is important for many wildlife species (e.g., the greater sage…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drechsler, Lourival, Possingham
The systematic conservation planning literature invariably assumes that the biodiversity features being preserved in sites do not change through time. We develop a conservation planning framework for ecosystems where disturbance events and succession drive vegetation dynamics.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Vasiliauskas, Kayahara, Ilisson
Postfire tree species compositions are predicted to be the same prior to fire according to the direct regeneration hypothesis (DRH). We studied 94 upland boreal forest stands between 5 and 18 years after fire in Ontario, Canada. Postfire species-specific regeneration density was…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baer, Engle, Knops, Langeland, Maxwell, Menalled, Symstad
Vast areas of arable land have been retired from crop production and ''rehabilitated'' to improved system states through landowner incentive programs in the United States (e.g., Conservation and Wetland Reserve Programs), as well as Europe (i.e., Agri-Environment Schemes). Our…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program based on mathematical models that describe wildland fire behavior and effects and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a host of fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Carcaillet, Bergeron
The influence of climatic and local nonclimatic factors on the fire regime of the eastern Canadian boreal forest over the last 8000 years is investigated by examining charred particles preserved in four lacustrine deposits. Herein, we compare the distribution of fire-free…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aguilar-Fernandez, Jaramillo, Varela-Fregoso, Gavito
Rates of land conversion from forest to cultivated land by slash-and-burn practices are higher in tropical dry forest (TDF) than any other Neotropical forest type. This study examined the short-term consequences of the slash-and-burn process on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sun, Krueger, Jenkins, Zulauf, Charney
The major source of uncertainty in wildfire behavior prediction is the transient behavior of wildfire due to changes in flow in the fire's environment. The changes in flow are dominated by two factors. The first is the interaction or 'coupling' between the fire and the fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Bernier, Bergeron, Paré, Guérine
In many northern forest ecosystems, soil organic matter accumulation can lead to paludification and forest productivity losses. Paludification rate is primarily influenced by topography and time elapsed since fire, two factors whose influence is often confounded and whose…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwilk, Keeley, Knapp, McIver, Bailey, Fettig, Fiedler, Harrod, Moghaddas, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Youngblood
Changes in vegetation and fuels were evaluated from measurements taken before and after fuel reduction treatments (prescribed fire, mechanical treatments, and the combination of the two) at 12 Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) sites located in forests with a surface fire regime…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
From the text ... 'The primary goal of the FFS study was to measure and compare the effectiveness and ecological consequences of commonly used fuel reduction treatments. Forest managers throughout the United States have asked for side-by-side comparisons of treatments to better…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higuera, Brubaker, Anderson, Hu, Brown
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial-scale climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and existing paleoclimate interpretations. New techniques were introduced to identify charcoal peaks semi-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hagemann, Moroni, Makeschin
Deadwood (woody debris (WD), standing dead trees (snags), stumps, and buried deadwood) abundance was estimated in Labrador humid high-boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests regrown following natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Aboveground deadwood (DW)…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Derner, Lauenroth, Stapp, Augustine
Domestic livestock have the potential to function as ecosystem engineers in semiarid rangelands, but prevailing management practices largely emphasize livestock production and uniform use of vegetation. As a result, variation in vegetation structure might not occur at…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
From the text ... 'So what is the number one reason that we're burning? What is the number one reason we treat fuels? Well, of course it's to protect the public from extremely high concentration of fine particulates associated with wildfire, right? And that's the number one…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
From the text ... 'So what does AFF, the American Forest Foundation, have to offer? The first thing is that we have 90,000 landowners as members. We have a huge network that's already established, and on a regular basis we send out letters, emails, updates, invitations to field…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paclik, Misik, Weidinger
Birds that excavate their own cavities for breeding are traditionally considered to suffer little from nest predation. We reviewed the literature for nest predation rates, nest success, nest predator species and nest defence in European and North American woodpeckers. Predation…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Fontaine
From the text ... 'Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yi, McGuire, Harden, Kasischke, Manies, Hinzman, Liljedahl, Randerson, Liu, Romanovsky, Marchenko, Kim
Soil temperature and moisture are important factors that control many ecosystem processes. However, interactions between soil thermal and hydrological processes are not adequately understood in cold regions, where the frozen soil, fire disturbance, and soil drainage play…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dasgupta, Qu, Bhoi
The retrieval of Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) over fire prone grasslands is important for fire risk and drought assessment. Radiative transfer (RT) model based inversion of measured reflectances for retrievals of LFMC offers a promising method for estimating LFMC. This…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS