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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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
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
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
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the advancements in soil and fire sciences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gui, Wang, Hu, Zhou, Wan
As a general disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, fire can have far-reaching consequences on the carbon (C) cycle. Although soil respiration (SR) is important in regulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a general pattern of the response of SR to fire in terrestrial…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lucash, Marshall, Weiss, McNabb, Nicolsky, Flerchinger, Link, Vogel, Scheller, Abramoff, Romanovsky
Boreal ecosystems account for 29% of the world's total forested area and contain more carbon than any other terrestrial biome. Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed twice as rapidly as the contiguous U.S. and wildfire activity has increased, including the number of fires,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Almeida, Viegas, Ribeiro
The ninth International Conference on Forest Fire Research, together with the 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit was held in November 2022. This joint conference brought together several hundred presentations in the field of wildfire research. This special issue of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. Denis, Short, McConnell, Cook, Mietkiewicz, Buckland, Balch
This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2020) of the US National Incident Management System Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) forms (a total of 187,160 reports for 35,170 incidents, including 34,478 wildland fires). This system captures detailed daily/…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilgrim
Kristy Pilgrim is a Researcher for the Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems program at Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Laboratory Supervisor for the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. She presents interesting case studies of DNA species…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Eroglu
Scientific studies are increasing day by day with the development of technology. Today, more than 171 billion academic records are made available to researchers via the Web of Science database, which is frequently followed by the scientific community, and is where records of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable, and the unpleasant, presented…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Erazo-Mora, Montalván-Burbano, Aburto, Matus-Baeza, Jofré-Fernández, Durán-Cuevas, Dörner, Dippold, Merino-Guzmán
As wildfires have increased and become more frequent in recent years, researchers area focusing on how wildfires affect ecosystem resilience, which has serious implications for the recovery and protection of native forests and plantations. Most physicochemical and biological…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ding, Wang, Fu, Zhang, Wang
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in wildfire detection. Methods using the brightness and temperature difference of remote sensing images to determine if a wildfire has occurred are one of the main research directions of forest fire monitoring. However, common…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Kaur, Singh, Kim
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have proven to be incredibly useful for forest applications that rely on sensing technologies for event detection and monitoring. This radical sensing technology has revolutionized data gathering, analysis, and application. Despite the many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rjoub, Alsharoa, Masadeh
Numerous hectares of land are destroyed by wildfires every year, causing harm to the environment, the economy, and the ecology. More than fifty million acres have burned in several states as a result of recent forest fires in the Western United States and Australia. According to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wu, Li, Li, Zhang, Liu, Zhao, Shen, Hao, Zhang
Fire, as a strong disturbance type, can exert significant impacts on the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere and human society. It can inherently trigger both critical transitions in ecosystems and dramatic changes in land cover. However, the general…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Grabinski
The 2nd Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) Research-to-Operations (R2O) workshop convened May 12-13 at the University of Alaska Murie Building.The 1.5-day workshop was held following NASA ABoVE’s 8th Annual Science Team Meeting as an opportunity for researchers and managers…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and the ecological role of human and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to a central monitoring…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeVan, Johnstone, Mack, Hollingsworth, Taylor
Ongoing climate change in the boreal forests of western North America is associated with wildfires which are increasing in extent and severity, thus impacting mycorrhizal fungal communities through fungal mortality and shifts in host species and age. We planted three native tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES