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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Englin
Forest fires and their legacy form an inherently dynamic relationship between ecology and human uses of the forest. This paper provides an overview of the dynamic dimensions that are present in the aftermath of a fire. These include the evolution of social benefits as the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Levick, Richards, Cook, Schatz, Guderle, Williams, Subedi, Trumbore, Andersen
Fire regimes across the globe have been altered through changes in land use, land management, and climate conditions. Understanding how these modified fire regimes impact vegetation structure and dynamics is essential for informed biodiversity conservation and carbon management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate change. This talk focuses on understanding the consequences of climate change for fire activity in select…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Bond
Alexander von Humboldt is a key figure in the history of ecology and biogeography who contributed to shape what is today ecology, as well as the environmentalist movement. His observation that the world’s vegetation varies systematically with climate was one of his many…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macander, York
Presented By: Matt Macander and Alison York
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the new SERDP funded project on resiliency and vulnerability.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cahur
Presented By: Mark Cahur
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the Chugach risk assessment.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
See how remote sensing is being used to track progress in conifer management. This video was presented by Jason Reinhardt – University of Minnesota-Minneapolis at the Harnessing Technology to Improve Conservation Effectiveness on Western Working Lands| Society for Rangeland…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Day, Dunfield, Johnstone, Mack, Turetsky, Walker, White, Baltzer
Wildfire is the dominant disturbance in boreal forests and fire activity is increasing in these regions. Soil fungal communities are important for plant growth and nutrient cycling post‐fire but there is little understanding of how fires impact fungal communities across…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGranahan
Fine-fuel moisture is an important variable in the wildland fire environment, but measuring live fuel moisture is time-consuming. There is a strong incentive to develop technologies that provide instantaneous measurements of fine-fuel moisture. Campbell Scientific, Inc. markets…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship with fire. It is important to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The most common misconception of wildfire is that all fire is bad. But there are important benefits that smaller and more frequent fires offer to the environment. Matt Jolly, an ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, talks about the natural and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt gave a great public presentation discussing how climate is interacting with fire ecology in Alaska at her Science for Alaska lecture on February 19th.
Wildfires were in the news last fall -- again. Have you wondered what drives large fire seasons…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Batllori, De Cáceres, Brotons, Ackerly, Moritz, Lloret
Understanding ecosystem responses to compound disturbance regimes and the influence of specific sequences of events in determining ecosystem shifts remains a challenge. We use a modelling framework for Mediterranean‐type ecosystems to assess the effects of fire–drought…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Higuera, Abatzoglou, Duffy, Hu
Aim: Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate, creating an inherent source of uncertainty when anticipating future change. We investigated the impact of threshold relationships on our ability to project ecological…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Liu, Jiang, Feng, Samsonov
Wildfires could have a strong impact on tundra environment by combusting surface vegetation and soil organic matter. For surface vegetation, many years are required to recover to pre-fire level. In this paper, by using C-band (VV/HV polarization) and L-band (HH polarization)…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wenninger, Hollingsworth, Wagner
Changes to the fire regime in boreal Alaska are shifting the ratio of coniferous to deciduous dominance on the landscape. The increase in aspen and birch may have important effects on predatory hymenopteran assemblages by providing a source of extrafloral nectar and increasing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olnes, Kielland, Genet, Ruess
The future of boreal forests in Alaska, United States, will likely consist of more deciduous-dominant stands because larger and more severe fires facilitate the establishment of deciduous species such as trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) and Alaska birch (Betula…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens, Loehman, Thode, Flatley, Evans, Bunn, Wilcox, Mueller, Yocom, Falk
Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins, Ziel
Presented by: Jenn Jenkins and Robert 'Zeke' Ziel. Bureau of Land Management & Alaska Fire Science Consortium.
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Presented by: Jennifer Barnes, National Park Service, Alaska Region
Additional slide authors: Hrobak, Walker and Loehman
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Recent Findings on Forest Composition Changes in Alaska, Canada and Observations on Burn Probability
Presented by: Brendan Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop
Topics include geospatial vegetation mapping of…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
Presented by: Carly Phillips and Molly Elder, Woods Hole Research Center and Tufts University, Union of Concerned Scientists
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
Presented by: Uma Bhatt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, National Science Foundation EPSCoR
October 9th, 2019
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Baltzer, Cumming, Day, Ebert, Goetz, Johnstone, Potter, Rogers, Schuur, Turetsky, Mack
Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the combustion of soil organic matter1,2,3. During each fire, a portion of this soil beneath the burned layer can escape combustion, leading to a net accumulation of carbon in forests over…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES