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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Henderson, Ichoku, Burkholder, Brauer, Jackson
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
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
Cote, Bouchard, Pothier, Gauthier
In the North American boreal forest, the adoption of forest ecosystem management strategies usually increases the number of forest stands to be treated with irregular or uneven-aged silvicultural systems. However, it is difficult to properly target the stands most appropriate…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Platt
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where human-built structures and infrastructure abut or mix with naturally occurring vegetation types. Wildfires are of particular concern in the WUI because these areas comprise extensive flammable vegetation, numerous structures,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
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
Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Goetz, Sun, Baccini, Beck
Fire disturbance at high latitudes modifies a broad range of ecosystem properties and processes, thus it is important to monitor the response of vegetation to fire disturbance. This monitoring effort can be aided by lidar remote sensing, which captures information on vegetation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Godson, Stednick
From the text ... 'Computer-driven prediction models of post-fire soil erosion can aid site prioritization for erosion control measures....... Fire and site characterization by fire crews during suppression efforts could provide information to resource managers immediately after…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Eitel, Hudak
Recent studies in the Western United States have supported climate scenarios that predict a higher occurrence of large and severe wildfires. Knowledge of the severity is important to infer long-term biogeochemical, ecological, and societal impacts, but understanding the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larkin, Brown, Lahm, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferber
From the text ... 'LANDFIRE can give more precise predictions than previous fire-behavior models did, allowing land managers to let beneficial fires burn, Shlisky says.The database has been tested in the northern Rockies and in central Utah; now it will expand nationwide. As…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Earles, Wright, Brown, Langan
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Aldridge, Apa, Bohne, Braun, Bunnell, Connelly, Deibert, Gardner, Hilliard, Kobriger, McAdam, McCarthy, McCarthy, Mitchell, Rickerson, Stiver
We revised distribution maps of potential presettlement habitat and current populations for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison Sage- Grouse (C. minimus) in North America. The revised map of potential presettlement habitat included some areas omitted…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Curran, Trigg, McDonald, Astiani, Hardiono, Siregar, Caniago, Kasischke
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller, Jessup, Salim
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Management strategies for recovery of red-cockaded woodpecker populations: a metapopulation proposal
Historically, red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) populations occupied pinelands throughout the southeastern United States. Because of the landscape effects of topography and basin drainages, the historic distribution of suitable pine habitat was relatively disjunct. In…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Keane, Hessburg
Landscape patterns in the northwestern United States are mostly shaped by the interaction of fire and succession, and conversely, vegetation patterns influence fire dynamics and plant colonization processes. Historical landscape pattern dynamics can be used by resource managers…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kafka, Parisien, Hirsch, Flannigan, Todd
Climate change could increase fire weather severity in the western portion of Canada's boreal forest. In this study, we evaluate how climate change could affect future landscape-level fire behavior potential. The study area extends over 135,000 km2 and covers the entire southern…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS