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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brooks, D'Antonio, Richardson, Grace, Keeley, DiTomaso, Hobbs, Pellant, Pyke
Plant invasions are widely recognized as significant threats to biodiversity conservation worldwide. One way invasions can affect native ecosystems is by changing fuel properties, which can in turn affect fire behavior and, ultimately, alter fire regime characteristics such as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Martell
Fire frequency is the most commonly used measure to characterize fire regimes for comparisons across geographical areas or time periods. Within the boreal forest region of the Boreal Shield ecozone of Ontario, fire frequency changes over time and across longitudinal gradients…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bertschi, Yokelson, Goode, Ward, Babbitt, Susott, Hao
We adopt a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection. RSC emissions can be produced for up to several weeks after the passage of a flame front and they are mostly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arseneault
Although behaviour of stand-replacing wildfire has significant impacts on initial tree regeneration in the fire-prone boreal landscape, the unknown behaviour of most past wildfires has precluded any evaluation of these impacts on the progressive development of late-successional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arroyo, Pascual, Manzanera
Understanding fire is essential to improving forest management strategies. More specifically, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of fuels is critical when analyzing, modeling and predicting fire behavior. First, we review the main concepts and terminology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread) is a new (nonprofit) software system that incorporates several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior (Alexander and others 2006). The main outputs of CFIS are ability to determine the: 1) likelihood of crown…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Fire Management Today and its predecessors collectively have a 70-year record of publishing on all aspects of wildland fire management. While early on the emphasis was placed on subjects related to fire protection and fire suppression, it wasn't too long before articles dealing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
We evaluated the predictive capacity of a rate of spread model for active crown fires (M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander, and R.H. Wakimoto. 2005. Can. J. For. Res. 35: 1626-1639) using a relatively large (n = 57) independent data set originating from wildfire observations undertaken in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from 1994 to 2001 at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Can wildland fire behavior really be predicted? That depends on how accurate you expect the prediction to be. The minute-by-minute movement of a fire will probably never be predictable- certainly not from weather conditions forecasted many hours before the fire. Nevertheless,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
Calibration and testing of a computer simulation of the burning of large woody natural fuels has been presented previously in this journal. This note describes an improved calibration of the model for better prediction of fuel loading reductions. Using the same data as before,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butry
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns to these programs in terms of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
This study presents spatially and temporally resolved measurements of air temperatures and radiant energy fluxes in a boreal forest (Pinus banksiana-Picea mariana) crown fire in Northwest Territories, Canada. Measurements were collected 3.1, 6.2, 9.2, 12.3, and 13.8 m above the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Bradshaw
As the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (see Burgan et al. 1997 in this issue of Fire Management Notes), it has been abundantly clear that weather inputs are the most…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Structure of native vertebrate faunas within 12 different forest types were related to features of the natural fire regime. Relations between faunal structure and fire regime followed patterns expected if faunas were adapted to fire regimes. Proportions of species breeding early…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brotak
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[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brassard, Chen
Coarse woody debris (CWD) volume and diversity are vital attributes of forest ecosystems. However, despite their importance, their long-term dynamics associated with fire- or logging-origin and overstory type have not been examined in boreal forest. We hypothesize that (1) CWD…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boschetti, Roy
The interannual variability of fire activity has been studied without an explicit investigation of a suitable starting month for yearly calculations. Sensitivity analysis of 37 months of global MODIS active fire detections indicates that a 1-month change in the start of the fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bonan, Shugart
A discussion of the interrelationships between climate, solar radiation, soil moisture, soil temperature and permafrost, forest floor organic layer, nutrient availability, fire regime and insect outbreaks in boreal forests throughout the circumpolar region.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Black
The logic behind FEPF is straightforward: identify and map where management objectives exist on the landscape (or where their important habitats exist); identify critical fire weather threshold conditions (such as 80th, 90th, 99th percentile Energy Release Component) and map…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benscoter, Vitt, Wieder
Peatlands accumulate organic matter as peat because of disproportionate rates of production and decomposition. However, peat accumulation heterogeneity has not been well studied along the microtopographic gradient (hummocks vs. hollows), particularly with respect to fire. Fire…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS