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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pierce, Val Martin, Heald
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. In addition, smoke from fires negatively affects humans, ecosystems, and climate. Recent observations…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMullen, De Leenheer, Tonkin, Lytle
Disturbances cause high mortality in populations while simultaneously enhancing population growth by improving habitats. These countervailing effects make it difficult to predict population dynamics following disturbance events. To address this challenge, we derived a novel form…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Sullivan
Generalised statements about the state of fire science are often used to provide a simplified context for new work. This paper explores the validity of five frequently repeated statements regarding empirical and physical models for predicting wildland fire behaviour. For…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
In black spruce forests characterised by high-intensity crown fires, early detection and containment of fires while they are small is crucial for averting progression to fire intensities that exceed suppression capabilities. Fire behaviour conditions encountered during initial…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Rein
Smouldering fires in peatland are different from the flames in wildland fires. Smouldering peat fire is slow, low-temperature and more persistent, releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. In this work, we experimentally and computationally investigate the vertical…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
I present the case for a fire-centric scholarship, and suggest the transition between burning living landscapes and lithic ones (in the form of fossil fuels) would make a good demonstration of what such scholarship might do and what its value could be.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Munoz-Alpizar, Pavlovic, Moran, Chen, Gravel, Henderson, Ménard, Racine, Duhamel, Gilbert, Beaulieu, Landry, Davignon, Cousineau, Bouchet
FireWork is an on-line, one-way coupled meteorology–chemistry model based on near-real-time wildfire emissions. It was developed by Environment and Climate Change Canada to deliver operational real-time forecasts of biomass-burning pollutants, in particular fine particulate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dannenberg, Wise
Much of the precipitation delivered to western North America arrives during the cool season via midlatitude Pacific storm tracks, which may experience future shifts in response to climate change. Here, we assess the sensitivity of the hydroclimate and ecosystems of western North…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Champ, Barth
Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression paradigm that seeks to control…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
A changing climate, changing development and land use patterns, and increasing pressures on ecosystem services raise global concerns over growing losses associated with wildland fires. New management paradigms acknowledge that fire is inevitable and often uncontrollable, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Hoover
The carbon reports in the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) provide two alternate approaches to carbon estimates for live trees (Rebain 2010). These are (1) the FFE biomass algorithms, which are volume- based biomass equations, and (2) the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Cohn, Linn, Mell, Hoffman
With rapid changes in forest health and an increasing presence of fire affecting many landscapes, fuel treatments are considered essential in efforts to potentially mitigate catastrophic fires, restore ecosystems and increase ecosystem resilience. Understanding fuel treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Tesfaigzi, Bassein, Miller
Understanding the effect of wildfire smoke exposure on human health represents a unique interdisciplinary challenge to the scientific community. Population health studies indicate that wildfire smoke is a risk to human health and increases the healthcare burden of smoke-impacted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Incident Management System: Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide standardizes the minimum NWCG requirements for federal state, and local agencies in providing resources to fill a national interagency request for all types of wildland fire incidents.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Oregon Department of Forestry works aggressively to contain and stop wildfires. After a fire ODF helps landowners with reforesting expertise and connecting them with the right people.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where human development and the natural world meet or intermingle.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest dynamics modeling system with geographic variants covering forested areas of the contiguous United States. As a direct descendant of the Prognosis model of the 1970/80s, FVS has seen continuous development and use for over 40…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duff, Keane, Penman, Tolhurst
Wildland fires are a function of properties of the fuels that sustain them. These fuels are themselves a function of vegetation, and share the complexity and dynamics of natural systems. Worldwide, the requirement for solutions to the threat of fire to human values has resulted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel, Martin
Hydrologic recovery after wildfire is critical for restoring the ecosystem services of protecting of human lives and infrastructure from hazards and delivering water supply of sufficient quality and quantity. Recovery of soil-hydraulic properties, such as field-saturated…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Brotons, McCarthy
We reason that applying appropriate levels of pyrodiversity for animal conservation requires recognizing that context is important (i.e., there is no one-size-fits-all approach); understanding the different mechanisms underpinning the overarching pyrodiversity hypothesis;…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Taylor
Root-associated fungi, particularly ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF), are critical symbionts of all boreal tree species. Although climatically driven increases in wildfire frequency and extent have been hypothesized to increase vegetation transitions from tundra to boreal forest,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kreidenweis, Pierce
Biomass burning is an important source to the atmosphere of carbonaceous particulate matter that impacts air quality, climate, and human health. The semivolatile nature of directly-emitted organic particulate matter can result in particle evaporation as smoke plumes dilute.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Stuefer, Prakash, Ichoku
Fire products from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imagery provide timely information for wildfire detection, monitoring, and characterization at the global scale. However, in Alaskan boreal forest fires…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Pan, Dangal, Zhang, Wang, Tian
Knowledge and information of post-fire vegetation recovery are essential for our understanding of ecosystem stability and resilience in response to present and future disturbances. Although previous studies have examined the post-fire vegetation recovery at landscape and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lake, Wright, Morgan, McFadzen, McWethy, Stevens-Rumann
Indigenous peoples' detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists…. Instead, scientists have developed the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES