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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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York, Bhatt, Gargulinski, Grabinski, Jain, Soja, Thoman, Ziel
Despite the low annual temperatures and short growing seasons that are characteristic of high northern latitudes (HNL), wildland fire is the dominant ecological disturbance within the region's boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome. The boreal forest, also known as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Tedim, Leone
This paper presents the results of an explorative survey, based on a questionnaire sent by email, about how wildfire experts, operating in different countries, perceive wildfire and express their mindset by defining “wildfire” from a list of 14 terms and how they justify their…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Podschwit, Cullen
The simultaneous occurrence of wildfire can hinder firefighting effectiveness via multiple mechanisms that might explain historical resource demand trends. We validate this hypothesis by using data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project to determine if…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar Topics will include: Satellite-derived data WildfireSAFE Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Barmpoutis, Stathaki, Dimitropoulos, Grammalidis
The environmental challenges the world faces have never been greater or more complex. Global areas that are covered by forests and urban woodlands are threatened by large-scale forest fires that have increased dramatically during the last decades in Europe and worldwide, in…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Balmes
[from the text] The danger of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe, with large fires occurring in Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, as well as in the United States over the past decade. A major driver globally is climate change, which is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stoof, Chalton, Withington, Belval, Foderi
Wildland Fire Management under COVID-19: Results of a Global Survey - Cathelijne Stoof, Assistant Professor, Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Coordinator Wageningen Fire Centre, Wageningen University, Netherlands" This talk summarizes the results of a…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Lizundia-Loiola, Otón, Ramo, Chuvieco
This paper presents the generation of a global burned area mapping algorithm using MODIS hotspots and near-infrared reflectance within ESA's Fire_cci project. The algorithm is based on a hybrid approach that combines MODIS highest resolution (250 m) near-infrared band and active…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Woods, Coates, Hamann
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mantero, Morresi, Marzano, Motta, Mladenoff, Garbarino
Context Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on forest disturbance regimes occurring in these human-dominated landscapes. The role of land abandonment in modifying…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Li, Barclay, Lui, Campbell, Carlson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is a need of an efficient and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Frost, Loehman, Saperstein, Macander, Nelson, Paradis, Natali
Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) is one of the warmest parts of the Arctic tundra biome and tundra fires are common in its upland areas. Here, we combine field measurements, Landsat observations, and quantitative cover maps for tundra plant functional types (PFTs) to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vachula, Sae-Lim, Russell
Extensive burning of Arctic tundra landscapes in recent years has contradicted the conventional view that fire is a rare, spatially limited disturbance in tundra. These fires have been identified as harbingers of climate change, despite our limited understanding of Arctic fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES