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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Kimberlin, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Mincemoyer, Schmidt, Garner
Fuel input layers for the FARSITE fire growth model were created for all lands in and around the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, using satellite imagery, terrain modeling, and biophysical simulation. FARSITE is a spatially explicit fire growth model used to predict the growth…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stroppiana, Pinnock, Gregoire
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kita, Fujiwara, Kawakami
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Koch, Oswalt, Iannone
Context. Fine-scale ecological data collected across broad regions are becoming increasingly available. Appropriate geographic analyses of these data can help identify locations of ecological concern.Objectives. We present one such approach, spatial association of scalable…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haig, Miller, Bellinger, Draheim, Mercer, Mullins
The field of conservation genetics, when properly implemented, is a constant juggling act integrating molecular genetics, ecology, and demography with applied aspects concerning managing declining species or implementing conservation laws and policies. This young field has grown…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerns, Kim, Kline, Day
We examined landscape exposure to wildfire potential, insects and disease risk, and urban and exurban development for the conterminous US (CONUS). Our analysis relied on spatial data used by federal agencies to evaluate these stressors nationally. We combined stressor data with…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yeboah, Chen, Kingston
Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleaves
The wildland fire situation is a question of risk. Risk is in essence the exposure to a chance of loss. However, putting concept of risk into practice is quite complex. Each of the parts of any risk — probability, exposure pathway, and loss value - is multi-dimensional,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balice, Koch, Yool
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Michalek, Mudd
The importance of measuring and monitoring fire related ecosystem characteristics in forests is recognized and is the focus of several new studies. In this paper we present a discussion on the use of remote sensing for the study of boreal forest fire scar characteristics. Remote…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bentz
FINDIT, the Forest Insect and Disease Tally System, is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing insect and disease population information taken during stand surveys. Incidence of insects, pathogens, and other biotic and abiotic influences on forest ecosystems are summarized using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This photopoint data sheet is in an excel spreadsheet. It is intended for documentation and the re-creation of plot photos; including location, directions, date/time, camera information, plot description, camera placement and direction of picture, vegetation data, and fire fuels…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fire Effects Task Group began looking at photo documentation over a year ago with an eye to developing standard methods/recommendations. The photoseries is a basic type of monitoring dataset which is used by all participating agencies in monitoring fire effects,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Many U. S. forests, especially those with historically short-interval, low- to moderate-severity fire regimes, are too dense and have excessive quantities of fuels. Widespread treatments are needed to restore ecological integrity and reduce the high risk of destructive,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Vegetation Classification is a central organizing framework for documentation, inventory, monitoring, and study of vegetation in the United States from broad scale formations like forests to fine-scale plant communities. The Classification allows users to produce…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Meyers
Land managers in Alaska need information on lichen regeneration timelines specific to their region to establish sound fire management guidelines for caribou winter range. North American caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds are largely dependent on lichens for winter forage. Winter…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allison, Johnston, Craig, Jennings
For decades detection and monitoring of forest and other wildland fires has relied heavily on aircraft (and satellites). Technical advances and improved affordability of both sensors and sensor platforms promise to revolutionize the way aircraft detect, monitor and help suppress…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES