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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mason, Shirey, Ponisio, Gelhaus
Climate change in concert with fire suppression is increasing the size, severity and frequency of fires globally. At the same time, insects, an exceptionally biodiverse group that provide essential ecosystem services such as pollination and decomposition, are declining…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Saatchi, Yang, Yu, Pongratz, Bloom, Bowman, Worden, Liu, Yin, Domke, McRoberts, Woodall, Nabuurs, de-Miguel, Keller, Harris, Maxwell, Schimel
Live woody vegetation is the largest reservoir of biomass carbon, with its restoration considered one of the most effective natural climate solutions. However, terrestrial carbon fluxes remain the largest uncertainty in the global carbon cycle. Here, we develop spatially…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Jones
Data on fire effects and vegetation recovery are important for assessing the impacts of increasing temperatures and lightning on tundra fire regimes and the implications of increased fire in the Arctic for wildlife and ecosystem processes. This report summarizes information…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klupar, Rocha, Rastetter
Recent unprecedented fires in the Arctic during the past two decades have indicated a pressing need to understand the long-term ecological impacts of fire in this biome. Anecdotal evidence suggests that tundra fires can induce regime shifts that change tussock tundra to more…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Liu, Huang
Boreal peatlands are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires as climate change continues accelerating. Fires consume substantial quantities of organic soils and rapidly transfer large stocks of terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere. Herein, we quantify the minimum environmental…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swaty, Nyamai
This 3-part modeling miniseries will take a wide-ranging look at State-and-Transition-Simulation-Models (STSMs) and use the LANDFIRE BpS models as a launching point for inquiry about ecosystem change over time. It will communicate practical ways to use STSM in real-life research…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Frid
This 3-part modeling miniseries will take a wide-ranging look at State-and-Transition-Simulation-Models (STSMs) and use the LANDFIRE BpS models as a launching point for inquiry about ecosystem change over time. It will communicate practical ways to use STSM in real-life research…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Breen, Hewitt, Mack
Over the last century in the circumpolar north, notable terrestrial ecosystem changes include shrub expansion and an intensifying wildfire regime. Shrub invasion into tundra may be further accelerated by wildfire disturbance, which creates opportunities for establishment where…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cowan, Standish, Miller, Enright, Fontaine
Ecological resilience is widely acknowledged as a vital attribute of successful ecosystem restoration, with potential for restoration practice to contribute to this goal. Hence, defining common metrics of resilience to naturally occurring disturbances is essential for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliveira de Morais, Berenguer, Barlow, França, Lennox, Malhi, Chesini Rossi, Moraes de Seixas, Ferreira
Leaf-litter production is an essential part of the carbon cycle of tropical forests. In the Amazon, it is influenced by climate, presenting high levels during the driest months of the year. However, it is less established how extreme climatic events may impact leaf-litter…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Trends and transitions in the growing season MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series at 250-m resolution were analyzed for the period from 2000 to 2018 to understand recent patterns of vegetation change in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drüke, von Bloh, Sakschewski, Wunderling, Petri, Cardoso, Barbosa, Thonicke
Tropical rainforests are recognized as one of the terrestrial tipping elements which could have profound impacts on the global climate, once their vegetation has transitioned into savanna or grassland states. While several studies investigated the savannization of, e.g., the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Hood, Aubrey, Yedinak, Hiers, Jolly, Shearman, McDaniel, O'Brien, Rowell
The dead foliage of scorched crowns is one of the most conspicuous signatures of wildland fires. Globally, crown scorch from fires in savannas, woodlands, and forests causes tree stress and death across diverse taxa. The term crown scorch, however, is inconsistently and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
dos Anjos, Solé, Benchimol
Fire is a powerful environmental disturbance with the ability to shape many biomes worldwide. However, global warming, land-use changes and other anthropogenic factors have strongly altered natural fire regimes worldwide. Despite the growing number of studies evaluating the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky
Part of the California Fire Science Seminar Series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mekonnen, Zhu, Simmonds
Wildfire is globally important to climate change and is projected to increase in severity with it. Thus, improving our predictability and understanding of its spatial patterns and impacts on terrestrial vegetation dynamics are greatly needed, as well as our ability to quantify…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Romps, Seeley, Veraverbeke, Riley, Mekonnen, Randerson
Lightning is an indicator and a driver of climate change. Here, using satellite observations of lightning flash rate and ERA5 reanalysis, we find that the spatial pattern of summer lightning over northern circumpolar regions exhibits a strong positive relationship with the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Zhuang, Shurpali, Köster, Berninger, Pumpanen
Wildfires are a major disturbance to forest carbon (C) balance through both immediate combustion emissions and post-fire ecosystem dynamics. Here we used a process-based biogeochemistry model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to simulate C budget in Alaska and Canada…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Refsland, Averill, Terrer, Staver, Brockway, Caprio, Clatterbuck, Coetsee, Haywood, Hobbie, Hoffmann, Kush, Lewis, Moser, Overby, Patterson, Peay, Reich, Ryan, Sword Sayer, Sharenbroch, Schoennagel, Smith, Stephan, Swanston, Turner, Varner, Jackson
Global change has resulted in chronic shifts in fire regimes. Variability in the sensitivity of tree communities to multi-decadal changes in fire regimes is critical to anticipating shifts in ecosystem structure and function, yet remains poorly understood. Here, we address the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carriger, Thompson, Barron
Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change. While there have been extensive efforts at modeling the probability and severity of wildfires, there have been…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Madani, Parazoo, Kimball, Reichle, Chatterjee, Watts, Saatchi, Liu, Endsley, Tagesson, Rogers, Xu, Wang, Magney, Miller
The increase in wildfire occurrence and severity seen over the past decades in the boreal and Arctic biomes is expected to continue in the future in response to rapid climate change in this region. Recent studies documented positive trends in gross primary productivity (GPP) for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barreiro, Diaz-Raviña
The ecosystem response to fire is often linked to fire severity and recurrence, with potentially larges consequences on both above- and below-ground processes. Understanding the fire impact has become increasing important in the light of recent changes to disturbance regimes due…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
It’s no secret that warming temperatures are transforming landscapes in extreme northern regions. In Alaska, where wildfires have burned through many old-growth spruce forests in the past half decade, deciduous trees—such as aspen and birch—are starting to take over. But little…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Walker, Johnstone, Alexander, Jean, Miller
In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the atmosphere. To understand the destabilization of carbon storage, it is necessary to consider these…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES