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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Havstad, James
Prescribed burning is a commonly advocated and historical practice for control of woody species encroachment into grasslands on all continents. However, desert grasslands of the southwestern United States often lack needed herbaceous fuel loads for effective prescriptions,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'As the only agency managing lands in all 50 states and every U.S. territory, the FWS [Fish and Wildlife Service] manages fire on the greatest number of units with the smallest fire budget of any federal agency.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fry, Stephens
Descriptions of spatial patterns are important components of forest ecosystems, providing insights into functions and processes, yet basic spatial relationships between forest structures and fuels remain largely unexplored. We used standardized omnidirectional semivariance…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cantu-Salazar, Gaston
A high proportion of global coverage by protected areas is composed of relatively few very large protected areas (vLPAs); it is therefore important to understand their contribution to biological conservation. Here, using fresh analyses and a review of literature, we examine five…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Bagne, Finch
Mechanical and fire treatments are commonly used to reduce fuels where land use practices have encouraged accumulation of woody debris and high densities of trees. Treatments focus on restoration of vegetation structure, but will also affect wildlife populations. Small mammal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Huxman, Collins
Shrub encroachment in arid and semiarid rangelands, a worldwide phenomenon, results in a heterogeneous landscape characterized by a mosaic of nutrient-depleted barren soil bordered by nutrient-enriched shrubby areas known as ''fertile islands.'' Even though shrub encroachment is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kemball, Westwood, Wang
Mineral soils exposed by fire are often covered by a layer of ash due to complete consumption of the forest floor (litter and duff). To assess the possible effects of ash on seed germination and viability of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.)…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldstein, Butler, Hull
Conservation Learning Networks (UN) are an emerging conservation strategy for addressing complex resource management challenges that face the forestry profession. The US Fire Learning Network (FLN) is a successful example of a CLN that operates on a national scale. Developed in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Widenmaier, Strong
Tree encroachment into rough fescue (Festuca campestris) grassland has been identified as an ecological concern on the Cypress Hills plateau in southeastern Alberta, Canada. A combination of field sampling (109 transects), a dendrochronological assessment (1361 trees), and a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramírez Trejo, Perez-Garcia, Perez-Salicrup, Orozco-Segovia
Pteridium caudatum is a fern that frequently invades burnt areas in the Yucatan Peninsula and other neotropical sites. While post-fire regeneration of this fern apparently occurs mainly by vegetative means, little is known about the role of its spores in post-fire regeneration…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otto, Garcia-del-Rey, Munoz, Fernandez-Palacios
The Canarian pine (Pinus canariensis) exhibits a striking combination of high adult resistance to fire and intermediate serotiny. Hence, the study of its post-fire regeneration can support valuable new insights about functional adaptations to fire. Here, we analyse the first-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reyes, Kneeshaw, De Grandpré, Leduc
Questions: How does woody vegetation abundance and diversity differ after natural disturbances causing different levels of mortality?Location: Abies balsamea-Betula papyrifera boreal mixed-wood stands of southeast Quebec, Canada.Methods: Woody vegetation abundance and diversity…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson
We examined the short-term response of the bark-foraging bird community to mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and thinning/prescribed fire combination treatments designed to reduce fuel loads at study sites throughout the continental United States as part of the national Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Busby, Albers
Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Ali, Hély
With the emergence of a new forest management paradigm based on the emulation of natural disturbance regimes, interest in fire-related studies has increased in the boreal forest management community. A key issue in this regard is the improvement of our understanding of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Ager, Gilbertson-Day, Scott, Finney, Schrader-Patton, Quigley, Strittholt, Kaiden
This report was designed to meet three broad goals: (1) evaluate wildfire hazard on Federal lands; (2) develop information useful in prioritizing where fuels treatments and mitigation measures might be proposed to address significant fire hazard and risk; and (3) develop risk-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Ooi
From the text ... 'Only if the seed experiences an appropriate cue that informs it of a favourable current environment while (relatively) non-dormant will germination occur. Light confirms there has been some disturbance that has brought a buried seed to the surface, smoke that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS