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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Achtemeier
A cellular automata fire model represents 'elements' of fire by autonomous agents. A few simple algebraic expressions substituted for complex physical and meteorological processes and solved iteratively yield simulations for 'super-diffusive' fire spread and coupled surface-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Adams
Global evidence posits that we are on the cusp of fire-driven 'tipping points' in some of the world's most important woody biomes including savannah woodlands, temperate forests, and boreal forests, with consequences of major changes in species dominance and vegetation type. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Opperman
LANDFIRE is the working name given to the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (http://www.landfire.gov). The project was initiated in response to mega-fires and the need for managers to have consistent, wall-to-wall (i.e., all wildlands regardless of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Goodrick, Stanturf
This study investigates trends in wildfire potential in the continental United States under a changing climate. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is determined by daily maximum temperature and precipitation. The impact of relative…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Cantin, de Groot, Wotton, Newbery, Gowman
We used Cumulative Severity Rating (CSR), a weather-based fire danger metric, to examine the potential influence of climate change on global fire season severity. The potential influence of climate change on fire season length was also addressed. We used three General…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Flannigan, Cantin
Fire disturbance is a primary driver of forest dynamics across the circumpolar boreal region, although there are major differences in continental fire regimes. Relatively infrequent, high intensity crown fires dominate North American boreal forests, and low to moderate intensity…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams
In the modern era, high-impact mega-fires are unprecedented for the suppression costs, property losses, natural resource damages, and loss of life often involved. For a number of years, these extraordinary wildfires have been increasing in number and in severity. They affect…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Craine, Ocheltree, Nippert, Towne, Skibbe, Kembel, Fargione
Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species. As climates warm and precipitation patterns shift in the future, understanding the distribution of the diversity of plant drought tolerance is central…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Silva, Anand
Rising atmospheric CO 2 and climate warming have induced changes in tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) world-wide, but the long-term impact of such changes on terrestrial productivity remains unknown. Based on a synthesis of the literature, here we investigate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dai
Historical records of precipitation, streamflow and drought indices all show increased aridity since 1950 over many land areas. Analyses of model-simulated soil moisture, drought indices and precipitation-minus-evaporation7 suggest increased risk of drought in the twenty-first…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
This paper constitutes a digest and critique of the currently available information pertaining to the influence of live fuel or foliar moisture content (FMC) on the spread rate of crown fires in conifer forests and shrublands. We review and discuss the findings from laboratory…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Keith, Martin
Fuel moisture plays an important role in predicting wildfire spread rates, fuel consumption, and heat output. The purpose of this study was to find how much we can simplify an F and H layer moisture model by comparing an empirical-phenomenalistic drying model with a mechanistic…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Gebert, Hand
The financial impact of wildfire management within the USDA Forest Service challenges the ability of the agency to meet societal demands and maintain forest health. The extent of this financial crisis has been attributed to historical and continuing fire management practices,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Terrier, Girardin, Périé, Legendre, Bergeron
There is general consensus that wildfires in boreal forests will increase throughout this century in response to more severe and frequent drought conditions induced by climate change. However, prediction models generally assume that the vegetation component will remain static…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Ottmar, Rupp, Jandt, Miller, Howard, Schmoll, Theisen, Vihnanek, Jimenez
Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the preferred strategy of many fire managers and agencies for reducing fire hazard in boreal forests. This study attempts to characterize the effectiveness of four fuel treatments through…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken, Hollingsworth
Alaskan forests cover one-third of the state's 52 million ha of land (Parson et al. 2001), and are regionally and globally significant. Ninety percent of Alaskan forests are classified as boreal, representing 4 percent of the world's boreal forests, and are located throughout…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Vose
Forest ecosystems in the United States in the year 2100 will differ from those of today as a result of a changing climate. Those differences will be superimposed on the human imprint of forest management and the legacies of other land use activities, stressors, and disturbances…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Millar, Skog, McKinley, Birdsey, Swanston, Hines, Woodall, Reinhardt, Peterson, Vose
Forest ecosystems respond to natural climatic variability and human-caused climate change in ways that are adverse as well as beneficial to the biophysical environment and to society. Adaptation refers to responses or adjustments made-whether passive, reactive, or anticipatory-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wear, Joyce
Human concerns about the effects of climate change on forests are related to the values that forests provide to human populations, that is, to the effects on ecosystem services derived from forests. Service values include the consumption of timber products, the regulation of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Vose
Climate profoundly shapes forests. Forest species composition, productivity, availability of goods and services, disturbance regimes, and location on the landscape are all regulated by climate. Much research attention has focused on the problem of projecting the response of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maranghides, Mell
WUI fires offer a unique challenge to the fire fighting and fire protection engineering communities. The scale of the events can be vast, spanning in many cases over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) and the number of structures involved can range into the thousands. The severity of the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Power, Mayle, Bartlein, Marlon, Anderson, Behling, Brown, Carcaillet, Colombaroli, Gavin, Hallett, Horn, Kennedy, Lane, Long, Moreno, Paitre, Robinson, Taylor, Walsh
The significance and cause of the decline in biomass burning across the Americas after ad 1500 is a topic of considerable debate. We synthesized charcoal records (a proxy for biomass burning) from the Americas and from the remainder of the globe over the past 2000 years, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ives, Sullivan, Dial, Berg, Welker
Boreal wetlands hold vast stocks of soil carbon (C), which may be vulnerable to changes in climate. In southcentral Alaska, wetlands of the Kenai Lowlands have experienced a warming and drying trend that has led to woody vegetation encroachment into herbaceous wetlands. We…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Venn, Wibbenmeyer, Thompson
Wildfire management involves significant complexity and uncertainty, requiring simultaneous consideration of multiple, non-commensurate objectives. This paper investigates the tradeoffs fire managers are willing to make among these objectives using a choice experiment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller, Ager
Risk analysis evolved out of the need to make decisions concerning highly stochastic events, and is well suited to analyse the timing, location and potential effects of wildfires. Over the past 10 years, the application of risk analysis to wildland fire management has seen…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS