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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kasischke, Verbyla, Rupp, McGuire, Murphy, Jandt, Barnes, Hoy, Duffy, Calef, Turetsky
A synthesis was carried out to examine Alaska's boreal forest fire regime. During the 2000s, an average of 767 000 ha x year-1 burned, 50% higher than in any previous decade since the 1940s. Over the past 60 years, there was a decrease in the number of lightning-ignited fires,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Mack
Predicting plant community responses to changing environmental conditions is a key element of forecasting and mitigating the effects of global change. Disturbance can play an important role in these dynamics, by initiating cycles of secondary succession and generating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Metsaranta
Climate change is expected to increase area burned in the boreal plains ecozone of Canada in the early 21st century (2001-50). I examined the influence of inter-annual variability in area burned and short observed time series on the probability of detecting if an increase has…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Kasischke, McGuire, Turetsky, Kane
Biomass burning in the Alaskan interior is already a major disturbance and source of carbon emissions, and is likely to increase in response to the warming and drying predicted for the future climate. In addition to quantifying changes to the spatial and temporal patterns of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical large-scale fires, including…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Renner
The Western Governors' Association's Forest Health Advisory Committee (FHAC) sought answers to questions on how large scale forest treatment collaboratives are doing throughout the West. They were particularly interested in finding out where groups of different stakeholders were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
Reinhardt et al. (E. Reinhardt, J. Scott, K. Gray, and R. Keane, Can. J. For. Res. 36: 2803?2814, 2006) questioned the validity of the regression equations for estimating canopy base heights in coniferous forest fuel types developed by Cruz et al. (M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
Cruz et al. (2003) developed regression equations for estimating canopy base height (CBH), canopy fuel load (CFL) and canopy bulk density (CBD) for use in assessing crown fire potential in four broad coniferous forest fuel types found in western North America. The Cruz et al. (…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim: In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Harmon, Birdsey, Giardina, Heath, Houghton, Jackson, McKinley, Morrison, Murray, Pataki, Skog
Forests play an important role in the U.S. and global carbon cycle, and carbon sequestered by U.S. forest growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The cycle of forest growth, death, and regeneration and the use of wood removed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou
The Desert Research Institute recently published a science brief describing the El Nino weather pattern and its relationship to fire risk and other land management concerns. The brief also introduces a new monthly El Nino risk mapping product that DRI helped to shape.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Sudden Oak Death Fourth Science Symposium provided a forum for current research on sudden oak death, caused by the exotic, quarantine pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. Ninety submissions describing papers or posters on the following sudden oak death/P. ramorum topics are…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kyle, Theodori, Absher, Jun
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of residents' attachment to their homes and community on their willingness to adopt Firewise recommendations. Our sample was drawn from a population residing in the wildland-urban interface where the threat of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document summarizes the 2010 AFSC workshop. Topics included the Tanacross Shaded Fuel Break project, the Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment project, climate change in Alaska, fire mapping methods using SAR, and potential research needs in Alaska and the method of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel and fire managers perform fuel treatments to manage and restore ecosystems and protect resources. In order to plan effective fuel treatments that accomplish objectives, managers need to analyze fuel conditions and document the expected fire behavior and fire effects both…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire scientists and managers at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress offer their thoughts about the program's accomplishments, challenges, and future direction.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harada, Narita, Saito, Sawada, Fukuda
In the Arctic, wildfire affects the ground surface condition of permafrost due to its heat and disappearance of vegetation, mainly moss layer, and these may cause the degradation of permafrost. At warm tundra areas, permafrost is affected by wildfire sensitively. However, there…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earl, Alexander, Mack
Wildfires are a major natural disturbance in boreal forests of interior Alaska and play an important role in determining forest plant composition and productivity by influencing parameters such as nutrient availability, light transmission, and forest floor heterogeneity.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
Previous published explorations of the relation between contemporary wildfire and lightning in Alaska have focused largely on the central boreal forest. Following the long duration (3 month), large extent (100,000 ha) 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire on the North Slope of Alaska, some…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Bowden, Kling, Schuett, Kostrzewski, Kolden, Findlay
Increased fire frequency and severity are potentially important consequences of climate change in high latitude ecosystems. The 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned from July until October, is the largest recorded tundra fire from Alaska's north slope (approximately 1,000 km^…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Vogel
Long-term monitoring of changes in ecosystem carbon cycling in response to permafrost thawing and thermokarst development is an important component of understanding the rate at which northern ecosystems are changing. The Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Wildfires are an integral disturbance component of dynamic ecological communities, but for humans to thrive in wildfire-prone regions, they must mitigate wildfire risks to human infrastructure and ecosystem services. Boreal forest and tundra ecotypes have co-evolved with…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Ruess, Lloyd, Yarie, Clein, Juday
This paper integrates dendrochronological, demographic, and experimental perspectives to improve understanding of the response of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) tree growth to climatic variability in interior Alaska. The dendrochronological analyses indicate that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES