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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions depends on climate and has, since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between weather conditions and fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmons, Legra
We undertook a 3-week expedition to Papua New Guinea in April-May 2007 to assess the breeding, threats and Population densities of the Papuan Harrier Circus spilonotus spilothorax and to determine a first global Population estimate for this almost entirely unknown species. Two…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Euskirchen, McGuire, Rupp, Chapin, Walsh
In high latitudes, changes in climate impact fire regimes and snow cover duration, altering the surface albedo and the heating of the regional atmosphere. In the western Arctic, under four scenarios of future climate change and future fire regimes (2003-2100), we examined…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Hessburg, Landres, Swanson
This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central concepts, benefits, and limitations of HRV are presented along with a discussion on the value of HRV in a changing world with…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Aim We investigate the timing and factors responsible for the transformation of closed-crown forests into lichen-spruce woodlands.Location The study area extends between 70º and 72º W in the closed-crown forest zone from its southern limit near 47º30' N to its northern limit at…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ainslie, Jackson
A means of determining air emission source regions adversely influencing the city of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada from potential burning of isolated piles of mountain pine beetle-killed lodge pole pine is presented. The analysis uses the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brubaker, Higuera, Rupp, Olson, Anderson, Hu
Interactions between vegetation and fire have the potential to overshadow direct effects of climate change on fire regimes in boreal forests of North America. We develop methods to compare sediment-charcoal records with fire regimes simulated by an ecological model, ALFRESCO (…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Butler
From the text ... 'This resolution of wind information can be useful to fire models simulating fire growth in very specific locations, such as individual drainages or ridges.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Krawchuk, Cumming, Flannigan
Forecasting future fire activity as a function of climate change is a step towards understanding the future state of the western mixedwood boreal ecosystem. We developed five annual weather indices based on the Daily Severity Rating (DSR) of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Carcaillet, Bergeron
The influence of climatic and local nonclimatic factors on the fire regime of the eastern Canadian boreal forest over the last 8000 years is investigated by examining charred particles preserved in four lacustrine deposits. Herein, we compare the distribution of fire-free…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higuera, Brubaker, Anderson, Hu, Brown
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial-scale climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and existing paleoclimate interpretations. New techniques were introduced to identify charcoal peaks semi-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kay
From the text (p.250) ... 'In addition to the materials reviewed by Williams in chapter 7, there are several ecological data sets that suggest aboriginal burning once accounted for most fires in the West, as well as in eastern forests. Brown et al. (1944), for instance, compared…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Logan, Stocks, Wotton, Amiro, Todd
In this study we use historical relationships between weather, the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System components and ecozone area burned in Canada on a monthly basis in tandem with output from GCMs from the Canadian Climate Centre and the United Kingdom Hadley Centre to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
Charcoal records were examined from seven sediment cores and two stratigraphic sections on southern vancouver Island, Canada. charcoal influx and climate trend regressions were established using high order polynomial functions. During the late-glacial (ca. 13,000-10,000 ybp),…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fleming, Candau, McAlpine
Analysis of Ontario's historical records from 1941-1996 showed that spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) caused whole tree mortality within 389 x 103 km2. This amounted to 9.2% of the annually cumulative area with moderate-severe defoliation. Large (>2 km2) fires…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trainor, Calef, Natcher, Chapin, McGuire, Huntington, Duffy, Rupp, DeWilde, Kwart, Fresco, Lovecraft
This paper explores whether fundamental differences exist between urban and rural vulnerability to climate-induced changes in the fire regime of interior Alaska. We further examine how communities and fire managers have responded to these changes and what additional adaptations…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Harvey, Gauthier
The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aiba, Kitayama
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wierzchowski, Heathcott, Flannigan
This study examines the influences of fuel, weather and topography on lightning-caused forest fires in portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The results show a significant difference in lightning and ligntning-caused fires east and west of the Continental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podur, Martell, Knight
Statistical quality-control methods were used to detect significant changes in the mean and variance of the annual fire occurrence and area burned in Canada (1918-2000), Ontario (1917-2000), and northwestern Ontario (1917- 2000). The quality-control chart method employed uses…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS