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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boschetti, Roy, Giglio, Huang, Zubkova, Humber
This paper presents a Stage 3 validation of the recently released Collection 6 NASA MCD64A1 500 m global burned area product. The product is validated by comparison with Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) image pairs acquired 16 days apart that were visually interpreted.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wickham, Vose, Peterson
The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on land cover…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer, Magi
For this study, we characterized the dependence of fire counts (FCs) on soil moisture (SM) at global and sub-global scales using 15 years of remote sensing data. We argue that this mathematical relationship serves as an effective way to predict fire because it is a proxy for the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beerling, Osborne
Savannas are a major terrestrial biome, comprising of grasses with the C4 photosynthetic pathway and trees with the C3 type. This mixed grass-tree biome rapidly appeared on the ecological stage 8 million years ago with the near-synchronous expansion of C4 grasses around the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barclay, Li, Hawkes, Benson
A Monte-Carlo simulation was constructed to determine the effects of fire frequency and size and of habitat heterogeneity on the equilibrium age distribution of a forest. We used yield tables for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Dougl.) in the interior of British…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koivula, Cobb, Dechene, Jacobs, Spence
Forest fires are among the most important natural disturbances in the boreal region, but fire-initiated succession is increasingly often interrupted by salvage logging, i.e., post-fire removal of burned trees. Unfortunately, very little is known about the ecological effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used MODIS imagery to establish that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hart, Chen
Understory vegetation is the most diverse and least understood component of North American boreal forests. Understory communities are important as they act as drivers of overstory succession and nutrient cycling. The objective of this review was to examine how understory…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reeves, Bisson, Rieman, Benda
We reviewed the behavior of wildfire in riparian zones, primarily in the western United States, and the potential ecological consequences of postfire logging. Fire behavior in riparian zones is complex, but many aquatic and riparian organisms exhibit a suite of adaptations that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boucher, Arseneault, Sirois
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Namroud, Leduc, Tremblay, Bergeron
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on hydrological and geomorphological…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Cyr, Drever, Flannigan, Gauthier, Kneeshaw, Lauzon, Leduc, Le Goff, Lesieur, Logan
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh, Muzika, McMurry
This study documents historic fire events at Capulin Volcano National Monument over the last four centuries using dendrochronologically dated fire scars at two sites: the lower volcano lava flows (the Boca) and the adjacent canyon slopes (Morrow Ranch). The mean fire interval (…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rupp, Olson, Adams, Dale, Joly, Henkelman, Collins, Starfield
Caribou are an integral component of high-latitude ecosystems and represent a major subsistence food source for many northern people. The availability and quality of winter habitat is critical to sustain these caribou populations. Caribou commonly use older spruce woodlands with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meyn, Feller
Forest fires in British Columbia often leave patches of unburned vegetation (forest remnants) within their perimeters. These remnants help to maintain biological diversity and structural complexity in stands. To be able to maintain patterns similar to those created by fire, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Humber, Boschetti, Giglio, Justice
We characterize the agreement and disagreement of four publically available burned products (Fire CCI, Copernicus Burnt Area, MODIS MCD45A1, and MODIS MCD64A1) at a finer spatial and temporal scale than previous assessments using a grid of three-dimensional cells defined both in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi
Trends in regional fire cycles for Alaska, 1943-2016, were analyzed by Thomas Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Maija Wehmas, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, and David Verbyla, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The methodology/figures/tables, GIS data and Python…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Overall, drought conditions had improved across the Southern Area Geographic Area over the past two years. During the spring of 2015 drought conditions began establishing across Southern Appalachian mountain states and steadily spread and increased in severity through the fall…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fauria, Johnson
[1] Large lightning wildfires in Canada and Alaska account for most of the area burnt and are main determiners of the age mosaic of the landscape. Such fires occur when positive midtroposphere height anomalies persist > 10 days during the fire season. Midtroposphere anomalies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ziel
Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place is a compilation of excerpts from the keynote presentation given by Robert "Zeke" Ziel at the Albuquerque location of the 2019 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference.
Alaska is nearly 18% of USA landmass. Its size is often…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hakes, Salehizadeh, Weston-Dawkes, Gollner
The cause of the majority of structure losses in wildland-urban interface fires is ignition via firebrands, small pieces of burning material generated from burning vegetation and structures. To understand the mechanism of these losses, small-scale experiments designed to capture…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Hüser, Zhang, Gehrke, Kaiser
Active fire observations with satellite instruments exhibit a well-documented increase of the detection threshold with increasing pixel footprint size, i.e., distance from the sub-satellite point. This results in a viewing angle-dependent, negative bias in gridded…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES