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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dockry, Hoagland, Leighton, Durglo, Pradhananga
Native American and Alaska Native tribes manage millions of acres of land and are leaders in forestry and fire management practices despite inadequate and inequitable funding. Native American tribes are rarely considered as research partners due to historically poor…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baillargeon, Pold, Natali, Sistla
The Arctic is experiencing the greatest increase in average surface temperature globally, which is projected to amplify wildfire frequency and severity. Wildfire alters the biogeochemical characteristics of arctic ecosystems. However, the extent of these changes over time—…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Wang
When tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific transition into midlatitude cyclones, it often perturbs the jet stream, resulting in amplified flow conditions in the north Pacific and various weather extremes in North America. Thus far, however, the climatological impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moyo
Globally, wildfires and prescribed fires are becoming more prevalent and are known to affect plant and animals in diverse ecosystems. Understanding the responses of animal communities to fire is a central issue in conservation and a panacea to predicting how fire regimes may…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, You
The spatiotemporal variability of vegetation fires is essential for understanding changes in the climate and ecosystem in mountainous regions. MODIS Collection 6 active fire products indicate that the area burned by vegetation fires declined globally from over 4.27 million km2…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox, Holman, Rigo, Al Suwaidi, Grice
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are routinely used as proxies for wildfire in geological sediments associated with large igneous province (LIP) driven CO2 increases and mass extinction events. One example is the end-Triassic mass extinction event (ETE) driven by Earth's…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Day, DeVan, Taylor
Root-associated fungi play a critical role in plant ecophysiology, growth, and subsequent responses to disturbances, so they are thought to be particularly instrumental in shaping vegetation dynamics after fire in the boreal forest. Despite increasing data on the distribution of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sadatrazavi, Motlagh, Noorpoor, Ehsani
Wildfires inflict damage on the ecology, economy and human lives globally, which is why they are studied as natural hazards. Policymakers can use fire prediction models to prioritize forest management and threats. In this study, an artificial neural network model is developed…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieber, Vyas, Koltz, Burkle, Bey, Guzinski, Murphy, Vidal
1. Animal ecology and evolution are shaped by environmental perturbations, which are undergoing unprecedented alterations due to climate change. Fire is one such perturbation that causes significant disruption by causing mortality and altering habitats and resources for animals…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuzmina, Lim, Loiko, Pokrovsky
Extensive studies have been performed on wildfire impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the taiga biome, however consequences of wildfires in the tundra biome remain poorly understood. In such a biome, permafrost peatlands occupy a sizable territory in the Northern…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Orland, Kirschbaum, Stanley
Wildfire is a global phenomenon that has dramatic effects on erosion and flood potential. On steep slopes, burned areas are more likely to experience significant overland flow during heavy rainfall leading to post fire debris flows (PFDFs). Previous work establishes methods for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volokitina, Korets, Sofronova
To study the vegetation affected by fires and to create databases useful for fire behavior prediction, three methodological approaches are used: (1) selective, (2) standard, and (3) individual-standard. The selective method consists of empirically studying the drying and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bui, Timmermann, Lee, Maloney, Li, Kim, Shuman, Lee, Wieder
Midlatitude stationary waves are relatively persistent large-scale longitudinal variations in atmospheric circulation. Although recent case studies have suggested a close connection between stationary waves and extreme weather events, little is known about the global-scale…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nolan, Anderson, Poulter, Varner
Aim: Each year, wild and managed fires burn roughly 4 million km2 [~400 million hectares (Mha)] of savanna, forest, grassland and agricultural ecosystems. Land use and climate change have altered fire regimes throughout the world, with a trend toward higher-severity fires found…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Egorova, Pagnini
Several cross-sectional studies recognize that conductive climatic conditions, including grave weather conditions favorable for ignition, larger burned areas, increasing fuel load and longer fire season, can lead to extreme events and enable fires to spread faster. Thus, the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Feltrin, Smith, Adams, Thompson, Kolden, Yedinak, Johnson
Disruption of photosynthesis and carbon transport due to damage of the tree crown and stem cambial cells, respectively, can cause tree mortality. It has recently been proposed that fire-induced dysfunction of xylem plays an important role in tree mortality. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Di Giuseppe
In 2021, the availability of a physical model for lightning density prediction at ECMWF led the development of data driven models to identify episodes conducive of fires. The machine-learning classifiers worked remarkably well reaching an overall accuracy up to 78%. Still,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fettig, Runyon, Homicz, James, Ulyshen
Purpose of Review
Fire and insects are major disturbances in North American forests. We reviewed literature on the effects of fire on bark beetles, defoliators, and pollinators, as well as on the effects of bark beetle and defoliator epidemics on fuels and wildfires.
Recent…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Zhang
In this article, we propose a mathematical model for insect outbreaks coupled with wildfire disturbances and an optimization model for finding suitable wildfire frequencies. We use a refined Holling II function as a model for the nonlinear response of fire frequency against…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schumaker, Watkins, Heinrichs
As fire frequency and severity grow throughout the world, scientists working across a range of disciplines will increasingly need to incorporate wildfire models into their research. However, fire simulators tend to be highly complex, time-consuming to learn, and difficult to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ayars, Parks, Chmura, Cushman, Sanderlin
Purpose of Review: Climate change will continue to alter spatial and temporal variation in fire characteristics, or pyrodiversity. The causes of pyrodiversity and its consequences for biological communities are emerging as a promising research area with great potential for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grillakis, Voulgarakis, Rovithakis, Seiradakis, Koutroulis, Field, Kasoar, Papadopoulos, Lazaridis
Wildfire is an integral part of the Earth system, but at the same time it can pose serious threats to human society and to certain types of terrestrial ecosystems. Meteorological conditions are a key driver of wildfire activity and extent, which led to the emergence of the use…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Yang
Fire frequency and intensity are increasing due to higher temperatures and more droughts. The distributions of fuels (vegetation in natural conditions) are also changing in response to climate change. The vegetation in cold environments such as high latitudes and high altitudes…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Eden, Dieppois, Blackett
In many parts of the world, wildfires have become more frequent and intense in recent decades, raising concerns about the extent to which climate change contributes to the nature of extreme fire weather occurrences. However, studies seeking to attribute fire weather extremes to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES