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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Liu, Zhang
In this article, we propose a mathematical model for insect outbreaks coupled with wildfire disturbances and an optimization model for finding suitable wildfire frequencies. We use a refined Holling II function as a model for the nonlinear response of fire frequency against…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 3rd "International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk" (ICFBR2022) took place in Alghero from May 3-6, 2022. ICBR2022 aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of fires and their impact on ecosystems and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schumaker, Watkins, Heinrichs
As fire frequency and severity grow throughout the world, scientists working across a range of disciplines will increasingly need to incorporate wildfire models into their research. However, fire simulators tend to be highly complex, time-consuming to learn, and difficult to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ayars, Parks, Chmura, Cushman, Sanderlin
Purpose of Review: Climate change will continue to alter spatial and temporal variation in fire characteristics, or pyrodiversity. The causes of pyrodiversity and its consequences for biological communities are emerging as a promising research area with great potential for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al-Bashiti, Naser
Whether triggered by natural or human-made events, wildfires are considered one of the most traumatic events to our community and environment. Thus, properly predicting wildfires continues to be an active area of research. This work showcases a statistical overview of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zong, Tian
Most wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas in the world will face severe wildfire risks due to climate warming and rapid urbanization. Mitigating the damage caused by WUI fires has become a worthy topic for fire researchers and managers. In recent years, WUI fires have occurred…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Scholten, Hessilt, Liu, Veraverbeke
Overwintering fires are a historically rare phenomenon but may become more prevalent in the warming boreal region. Overwintering fires have been studied to a limited extent in boreal North America; however, their role and contribution to fire regimes in Siberia are still largely…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grillakis, Voulgarakis, Rovithakis, Seiradakis, Koutroulis, Field, Kasoar, Papadopoulos, Lazaridis
Wildfire is an integral part of the Earth system, but at the same time it can pose serious threats to human society and to certain types of terrestrial ecosystems. Meteorological conditions are a key driver of wildfire activity and extent, which led to the emergence of the use…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Yang
Fire frequency and intensity are increasing due to higher temperatures and more droughts. The distributions of fuels (vegetation in natural conditions) are also changing in response to climate change. The vegetation in cold environments such as high latitudes and high altitudes…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bousquet, Mialon, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Mermoz, Kerr
Anthropogenic climate change is now considered to be one of the main factors causing an increase in both the frequency and severity of wildfires. These fires are prone to release substantial quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and to endanger natural ecosystems and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jorgenson, Brown, Hiemstra, Genet, Marcot, Murphy, Douglas
Alaska has diverse boreal ecosystems across heterogeneous landscapes driven by a wide range of biological and geomorphic processes associated with disturbance and successional patterns under a changing climate. To assess historical patterns and rates of change, we quantified the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Justino, Bromwich, Schumacher, Silva, Wang
Based on statistical analyses and Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the Pacific-North American pattern (PNA) induced climate anomalies in the 2001–2020 interval, it has been found that these climate modes drastically influence the fire danger (PFIv2) in differing ways across coastal…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Riley, Keenan, Mekonnen, Holm, Zhu, Torn
Arctic shrub expansion alters carbon budgets, albedo, and warming rates in high latitudes but remains challenging to predict due to unclear underlying controls. Observational studies and models typically use relationships between observed shrub presence and current environmental…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lamont
The interaction effects between climate and fire regime in controlling the type of vegetation and species composition is well established among the Earth’s biomes. Climate and the associated fire regime are never stable for long, and annual temperatures, atmospheric carbon…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
1. Problem Statement Climate change is impacting the climate-related biophysical dynamics of fisheries. For example, researchers have documented shifts in annual stream runoff throughout the western United States associated with warmer air temperature. In addition, current…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lamborn
In a rapidly changing environment where fires are becoming more frequent and severe, we need information and tools that can help us understand the broad scope of impacts fire can have in complex social-ecological systems. Taking a novel approach, we used a social-ecological…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harvey, Enright
Extreme fire seasons in both hemispheres in 2019 and 2020 have highlighted the strong link between climate warming and altered fire regimes. While shifts in fire regimes alone can drive profound changes in plant populations, communities, and ecosystems, the direct effects of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zolkos, MacDonald, Hung, Schade, Ludwig, Mann, Treharne, Natali
Northern high-latitude deltas are hotspots of biogeochemical processing, terrestrial-aquatic connectivity, and, in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), tundra wildfire. Yet, wildfire effects on aquatic biogeochemistry remain understudied in northern delta regions, thus limiting…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Liu
Wildfires not only severely damage the natural environment and global ecological balance but also cause substantial losses to global forest resources and human lives and property. Unprecedented fire events such as Australia's bushfires have alerted us to the fact that wildfire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Biro, Wong, Batterman, Staver
The biogeochemical signature of fire shapes the functioning of many ecosystems. Fire changes nutrient cycles not only by volatilizing plant material, but also by altering organic matter decomposition—a process regulated by soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs). However,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shmuel, Heifetz
Wildfires are a major natural hazard that lead to deforestation, carbon emissions, and loss of human and animal lives every year. Effective predictions of wildfire occurrence and burned areas are essential to forest management and firefighting. In this paper we apply various…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zheng, Duan, Dong, Liu
Aim: Fires are a serious threat to people’s lives and property. Detecting fires quickly and effectively and extinguishing them in the nascent stage is an effective way to reduce fire hazards. Currently, deep learning-based fire detection algorithms are usually deployed on the PC…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the advancements in soil and fire sciences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
James, Ansaf, Al Samahi, Parker, Cutler, Gachette, Ansaf
Wildfire risk has globally increased during the past few years due to several factors. An efficient and fast response to wildfires is extremely important to reduce the damaging effect on humans and wildlife. This work introduces a methodology for designing an efficient machine…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gui, Wang, Hu, Zhou, Wan
As a general disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, fire can have far-reaching consequences on the carbon (C) cycle. Although soil respiration (SR) is important in regulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a general pattern of the response of SR to fire in terrestrial…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES