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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter
Background- In the summer of 2015, hundreds of wildfires burned across the state of Alaska, and consumed more than 1.6 million ha of boreal forest and wetlands in the Yukon–Koyukuk region. Mapping of 113 large wildfires using Landsat satellite images from before and after 2015…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kohlenberg, Turetsky, Thompson, Branfireun, Mitchell
Warming in the boreal forest region has already led to changes in the fire regime. This may result in increasing fire frequency or severity in peatlands, which could cause these ecosystems to shift from a net sink carbon (C) to a net source of C to the atmosphere. Similar to C…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berner, Jantz, Tape, Goetz
Arctic tundra is becoming greener and shrubbier due to recent warming. This is impacting climate feedbacks and wildlife, yet the spatial distribution of plant biomass in tundra ecosystems is uncertain. In this study, we mapped plant and shrub above-ground biomass (AGB; kg m−2)…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Elser, Lewis, Mackey, Chen
The biogeochemical and stoichiometric signature of vegetation fire may influence post-fire ecosystem characteristics and the evolution of plant ‘fire traits’. Phosphorus (P), a potentially limiting nutrient in many fire-prone environments, might be particularly important in this…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Lamont, Paula, Appezzato-da-Glória, Fidelis
Despite long-time awareness of the importance of the location of buds in plant biology, research on belowground bud banks has been scant. Terms such as lignotuber, xylopodium and sobole, all referring to belowground bud-bearing structures, are used inconsistently in the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Baughman, Jones, Iwahana
Can fire accelerate the changes in the arctic that climate is already inducing and could a single fire event trigger a threshold change in arctic vegetation communities, with far-reaching implications? Ten years following a large and severe wildfire in the arctic foothills…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pérez, Chmura, Krause
In 2007, a fire burned over 100 000 ha along the Anaktuvuk River in Alaska, causing widespread ecological disturbance. Despite efforts to understand ecosystem recovery, little is known about higher trophic levels. Here, we present qualitative findings from a preliminary bird…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raposo, Viegas, Xie, Almeida, Figueiredo, Porto, Sharples
Junction fires, which involve the merging of two linear fire fronts intersecting at a small angle, are associated with very intense fire behaviour. The dynamic displacement of the intersection point of the two lines and the flow along the symmetry plane of the fire are analysed…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jeon, Choi, Souri, Roy, Diao, Pan, Lee, Lee
This study investigates a significant biomass burning (BB) event occurred in Colorado of the United States in 2012 using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. The simulation reasonably reproduced the significantly high upper tropospheric O3 concentrations (up to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz, Larson, Swanson
Large, spatially explicit forest plots have the potential to address currently understudied aspects of fire ecology and management, including the validation of physics-based fire behavior models and next-generation fire effects models. Pre-fire forest structures, fire-mediated…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Remenick
Fire regimes are needed for healthy forest ecosystems, but citizens who live parallel to public forests do not always understand or favour the mechanisms land managers use for fire prevention and preparation. One way that land managers and citizens may share concerns and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Lawrence, Bond-Lamberty
Fire is a fundamental Earth system process and the primary ecosystem disturbance on the global scale. It affects carbon and water cycles through changing terrestrial ecosystems, and at the same time, is regulated by weather and climate, vegetation characteristics, and,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Wei
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reimer
This project utilized a feminist appreciative approach to Action Research to facilitate a conversation about gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS). The research question was, “How might understanding gender and leadership support excellence in…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Landis, Edgerton, White, Wentworth, Sullivan, Dillner
An unprecedented wildfire impacted the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray in May 2016 causing a mandatory city wide evacuation and the loss of 2,400 homes and commercial structures. A two-hectare wildfire was discovered on May 1, grew to ~ 157,000 ha by May 5, and continued…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Richter
Recent changes in global fire activity and future projections can be attributed to a combination of direct human impacts and indirect effects of anthropogenic climate change. To understand how and why these shifts might occur, we need to understand the pre-human history of fires…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sumlin, Heinson, Shetty, Pandey, Pattison, Baker, Hao, Chakrabarty
Constraining the complex refractive indices, optical properties and size of brown carbon (BrC) aerosols is a vital endeavor for improving climate models and satellite retrieval algorithms. Smoldering wildfires are the largest source of primary BrC, and fuel parameters such as…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Madsen, Haynes, McCaffrey
As wildland fires have had increasing negative impacts on a range of human values, in many parts of the United States (U.S.) and around the world, collaborative risk reduction efforts among agencies, homeowners, and fire departments are needed to improve wildfire safety and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cascio
The natural cycle of landscape fire maintains the ecological health of the land, yet adverse health effects associated with exposure to emissions from wildfire produce public health and clinical challenges. Systematic reviews conclude that a positive association exists between…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rim, Om, Ren, Kim, Kim, Kang-Chol
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) includes a wildland fire-behavior module, WRF-Fire, which simulates wildland fire interactions with the atmosphere. Combining the WRF model with the coupled weather–wildland fire model allows simulations of wildland fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang
A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire rate of spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent dimensionless groups were identified, namely dimensionless fire spread rate, dimensionless fuel particle size, fuel…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Houle, Kane, Kasischke, Gibson, Turetsky
We measured organic-layer (OL) recovery and carbon stocks in dead woody debris a decade after wildfire in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests of interior Alaska. Previous study at these research plots has shown the strong role that landscape position plays in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bilbao, Del Ser, Perfecto, Salcedo-Sanz, Portilla-Figueras
Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation of resources to efficiently deal with such disaster…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jan, Nanda, He, Liu
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. They are typically deployed in human-inaccessible terrains to monitor and collect time-critical and delay-sensitive events. There have been several studies on the use of WSN in different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES