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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jones
If you find yourself working in or with a community at risk from wildfire, it’s because fire is a component of the local ecosystems. This means that your community will be confronted with fire at some time, with the main variables being when, and under what conditions. This '…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strong, Johnson, Chiariello, Field
Numerous studies have demonstrated that soil respiration rates increase under experimental warming, although the long-term, multiyear dynamics of this feedback are not well constrained. Less is known about the effects of single, punctuated events in combination with other longer…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hasburgh, Zelinka, Stone
In the wildland-urban interface, wood decks are a target for wildfire and may be ignited by firebrands or flaming debris. Wood decks also present a potential source for ignition of structures in the wildland-urban interface. However, their role in ignition of the adjacent…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The costs of wildland fire in the United States are enormous, not only in terms of the financial impacts of fire suppression and post-fire rehabilitation of property and ecosystems, but also in terms of loss of lives, impacts on physical health of nearby communities, effects on…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Villegas, Law, Stark, Minor, Breshears, Saleska, Swann, Garcia, Bella, Morton, Cobb, Barron-Gafford, Litvak, Kolb
Changes in large-scale vegetation structure triggered by processes such as deforestation, wildfires, and tree die-off alter surface structure, energy balance, and associated albedo-all critical for land surface models. Characterizing these properties usually requires long-term…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudspith, Belcher, Barnes, Dash, Kelly, Hu
Wildfires are anticipated to increase in frequency and extent in the Arctic tundra. In the unprecedented 2010 fire season, 37 tundra fires burned 435 km2 of the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska. We sampled sixteen soil monoliths from four of these burned areas, which based on…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar, Research Forester with the USFS Pacific Northwest Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team, gave a talk on air quality, wildfire smoke components and smoke impacts on human health with an eye to how air quality regulations may impact prescribed burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hattersley
Avenza Maps is becoming popular on firelines because it has made mobile GIS technology easy to access across devices. It allows for quick transfer of information with downloadable maps, easy search functions and GPS tracking abilities.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Al-Hamdan, Pierson, Nearing, Williams, Hernandez, Boll, Nouwakpo, Weltz, Spaeth
Soil erodibility is a key factor for estimating soil erosion using physically based models. In this study, a new parameterization approach for estimating erodibility was developed for the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). The approach uses empirical equations that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has funded an impressive number of research projects over the years. However, the number of projects does not necessarily provide an accurate picture of the program’s effectiveness. Over the last decade, researchers have collected data and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conway, Johnstone
Mammalian herbivory on palatable trees affects tree growth, forest composition, and forest succession. Antecedent effects of herbivores can be identified through remnants of dead stems and altered tree morphology as well as changes in tree ring patterns and growth. Increases in…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taudière, Richard, Carcaillet
Millions of hectares of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) forests provide most of the wood resource in the northern hemisphere. Among these forests, those that are fire-prone concentrate an astonishing diversity of mutualistic soil fungi that are pivotal for seedling establishment, tree…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan
Every year, thousands of small fires and dozens of large ones break out somewhere in Canada. This has been the story for millenia and will continue as long as there are people and lightning to start fires in the boreal forest. Now more than ever, people work, build, live, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Frey, Conway, Jean, Johnstone
Climate change is expected to increase the extent and severity of wildfires throughout the boreal forest. Historically, black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests in interior Alaska have been relatively free of non-native species, but the compounding effects of climate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruby
Dr. Brent Ruby will present his informative webinar on the physiological limits of wildland firefighters and how to address energy loss on the fireline. Learn what you can do to help your colleagues when they become fatigued while fighting fire (and what NOT to do).
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Dantas
At a broad (regional to global) spatial scale, tropical vegetation is controlled by climate; at the local scale, it is believed to be determined by interactions between disturbance, vegetation and local conditions (soil and topography) through feedback processes. It has recently…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Riley, Stoof
Wildfire increases the probability of debris flows posing hazardous conditions where values-at-risk exist downstream of burned areas. Conditions and processes leading to postfire debris flows usually follow a general sequence defined here as the postfire debris flow hazard…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Le Page
Vegetation fires are a complex aspect of terrestrial ecology to model because they depend on a wide range of climate, vegetation, and anthropogenic factors, and a major driver of ecosystem and carbon dynamics. This chapter explores the sensitivity of fire activity over temperate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vincent, Aisbett, Larsen, Ridgers, Snow, Ferguson
This study was designed to examine the effects of ambient heat on firefighters’ physical task performance, and physiological and perceptual responses when sleep restricted during simulated wildfire conditions. Thirty firefighters were randomly allocated to the sleep restricted (…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balch, Bradley, Abatzoglou, Nagy, Fusco, Mahood
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertainties to inform modeling efforts. In this monograph we provide a broad, cross-disciplinary overview of issues relating to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Thompson
Before fire models can be understood, evaluated, and effectively applied to support decision making, model-based uncertainties must be analyzed. In this chapter, we identify and classify sources of uncertainty using an established analytical framework, and summarize results…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fish, Peters, Ramsey, Sharplin, Corsini, Eckert
Exposure to smoke emitted from wildfire and planned burns (i.e., smoke events) has been associated with numerous negative health outcomes, including respiratory symptoms and conditions. This rapid review investigates recent evidence (post-2009) regarding the effectiveness of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lamont, He
Fire as a major evolutionary force has been disputed because it is considered to lack supporting evidence. If a trait has evolved in response to selection by fire then the environment of the plant must have been fire-prone before the appearance of that trait. Using outcomes of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Much like the proverbial chicken and egg story, there is debate over whether fire or the adaptations to fire came first for plant species in fire-prone ecosystems. This is significant because if the fire-prone habitats came first, it would be proof that fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES