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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Prescribed fire is applied widely as a management tool in North America to meet various objectives such as reducing fuel loads and fuel continuity, returning fire to an ecosystem, enhancing wildlife habitats, improving forage, preparing seedbeds, improving watershed conditions,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Doerr, Santín
Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown, Jorgenson, Kielland, Verbyla, Prakash, Koch
Climate change coupled with an intensifying wildfire regime is becoming an important driver of permafrost loss and ecosystem change in the northern boreal forest. There is a growing need to understand the effects of fire on the spatial distribution of permafrost and its…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellersick
USDA Forest Service R&D has been conducting research for many years with tribes and in Indian country and has collaboratively developed the USDA Forest Service Research and Development Tribal Engagement Roadmap (Tribal Engagement Roadmap) to help highlight and prioritize the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Allen, Franklin, Frelich, Harvey, Higuera, Mack, Meentemeyer, Metz, Perry, Schoennagel, Turner
Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies – information and material. Species life-history traits represent an adaptive response to disturbance and are an information legacy; in contrast, the abiotic and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Amacher, Sullivan
Previous studies investigating the impact of natural disturbances on rotation age decisions consider only one disturbance and assume immediate harvest and replanting should a disturbance occur. We extend this work by examining multiple disturbances and a continuance decision…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Hardy
Much like other scientific endeavors, most fire research is conducted either within individual disciplines - fuels, physics, chemistry, ecology, modelling, and so forth - or, at best, across only two or three disciplines. This is primarily because fire scientists have particular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Prescribed Fires in Alaska presented by Eric Miller. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the spring of 2016 that…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Berg
Fire and Vegetation in a Changing Climate on the Kenai Peninsula: a 14,000-year Record presented by Ed Berg of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Tundra Fires in a Changing Climate presented by Jennifer Barnes of the National Park Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Peterson, Riley, Liu, Luce
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in response to drought. There is also evidence that drought interacts with other controls (forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is jointly funded by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, and governance is through a 12-member Governing Board with 6 members from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and 1 member each from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans, Megown
During FY15 staff from the Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) developed an online survey to assess Forest Service land cover disturbance information needs. There were 172 respondents to the survey across a wide and representative spectrum of potential Landscape Change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar hosted by NC State University and presented by Toddi Steelman, Executive Director and Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. This 1-hour webinar discussed US fire policy as a complex problem…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Stephen Pyne, wildland fire historian, scholar and author with Arizona State University. This thought-provoking 1-hour webinar by Steve Pyne explored the complex histories and relationships between societies and various combustion…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Range of Variation is a description of the conditions of an ecosystem over space and time.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig
MS Thesis Defense, May 3, 2016. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long
LANDFIRE produces a comprehensive, consistent, scientifically based suite of spatial layers and databases for the entire United States and territories. In 2009 the first wall to wall National data set was delivered for the fifty United States. Since this accomplishment,…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Long, Connot
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel, and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from approximately 2010 and are the latest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Alaska Region National Park Units including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yeboah, Chen
Context: Despite decades of research, there is an intense debate about the consistency of the hump-shaped pattern describing the relationship between diversity and disturbance as predicted by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). Previous meta-analyses have not…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minsley, Pastick, Wylie, Brown, Kass
Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession. However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES