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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Pais, Miranda, Carrasco, Shen
Increasing wildfire activity globally has become an urgent issue with enormous ecological and social impacts. In this work, we focus on analyzing and quantifying the influence of landscape topology, understood as the spatial structure and interaction of multiple land-covers in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessilt
This webinar is part of NASA's ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) Northwest Territories focused webinar series.
Topic: More dry fuels and lightning will spark future increases in boreal forest firesPresenter: Thomas Duchnik Hessilt, Dept. of Earth Science, Vrije…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Scholten
This webinar is part of NASA's ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) Northwest Territories focused webinar series.
Topic: Overwintering fires in boreal forests of North AmericaPresenter: Rebecca C. Scholten, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This topic…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bastian, Fay, La Puma, Swaty
LANDFIRE has just released an update that adds three new years of disturbances across the U.S. to its vegetation and fuels data layers. LANDFIRE 2019 Limited is one step toward annual updates for the program, which is relied upon nationwide to guide land management and fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
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
Blankenship, Frid, Smith
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
Vuorio, Kovanen, Budowle, Sajantila, Palo, Stoop
Despite the increased frequency and scale of wildfire-related catastrophes, there has been little or no effective and coordinated international policy to address their highly negative impact. Possibly a generalized approach to respond to such major events could be modeled on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio
This synthesis uses an overarching analogy to outline key wildfire social science lessons and present human adaptation to wildfire as an ongoing process of negotiated trade-offs dictated by the site-specific context of particular places. Use of an overarching analogy allows…
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
de Almeida Pereira, Fusioka, Nassu, Minetto
Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being proposed over the years, usually based on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guo
Human activities and global change have resulted in more severe and destructive megafires in forest ecosystems worldwide. Here, I introduce and discuss the concept of 'management mosaics' and how to use it over both space and time to mitigate the growing impacts of extreme…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Connolly, Titus, St. Clair, Legarza
Presenters:
Suzanne Connolly LCSW, LMFT, LISAC is a researcher, author, speaker, Adjunct Professor, therapist and licensed clinical social worker. Suzanne specializes in treating trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and is passionate about sharing her effective…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fleming
Learn how Incidental’s various products and services are developed, and what the future might hold. Bria will share information on NFPA1977 (the safety standard that governs our uniforms), and the general state of workwear today, especially for women. We’ll discuss the process…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Day, Sweeney, Rodeffer
Presenters:
Bea Day – Incident Commander, USDA Forest Service
Sara Sweeney – Superintendent Mormon Lake Hotshots, USDA Forest Service
Stuart (Stu) Rodeffer – Logistics Section Chief Portland NIMO Team, USDA Forest Service
This event is part of the International Association of…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Rappold, Hano
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaughey, Clements, Holder, Weston
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
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