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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pausas
There is increasing evidence that alternative stable vegetation types exist for a given climate that are maintained by distinct fire regimes. Paritsis et al. (2014, this issue) provide an example in a temperate ecosystem. Here I briefly review cases of bi-stability in various…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ziel
As the fire behavior community aspires to promote best practices amongst a range of fire behavior experience, this webinar strives to share information regarding lessons learned from fire behavior prediction on 2015 wildfire incidents. Every fire season there are parts of the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jeffery
Wildfire is often a naturally occurring process, hence the term 'natural hazard,' but unlike other natural, potentially disastrous weather-related events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, there are two critical human elements unique to a wildfire: it is the only…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Potter, Steel, Stocks
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e.…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kielland, Euskirchen
Wildfire is the most frequent ecological disturbance in the boreal forest and recent studies have documented an increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires in interior Alaska under a changing climate. Disturbance-generated landscape heterogeneity, such as fire, can…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
The degree and manner in which different fires affect climate is a complete unknown, but is expected to vary substantially and may in fact represent a currently untapped climate mitigation service. In this webinar, Rogers will provide background on these issues, and describe his…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
Carbon cycles through forested ecosystems, but climate change will increase disturbance in many of these ecosystems. Many U.S. forests currently act as carbon sinks, but increased disturbance may alter this dynamic. Management responses could include focusing on rapid…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
ABoVE is the next major field campaign funded by NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program. This webinar will include ABoVE's objectives, timeline for research activities (including an airborne remote sensing campaign in addition to coordinated field activities), and plans for…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Busse
In this webinar presented by Matt Busse on March 31, 2015 he covers: (1) ecological consequences of prescribed fire on soil heating, water repellency, and soil nutrient release, (2) pile burning, (3) whole tree harvesting and nutrient removal, and (4) the evils of soil…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Larouche, Abbott, Bowden, Jones
In the Alaskan Arctic, rapid climate change is increasing the frequency of disturbance including wildfire and permafrost collapse. These pulse disturbances may influence the delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to aquatic ecosystems, however the magnitude of these effects…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jiang, Rastetter, Rocha, Pearce, Kwiatkowski, Shaver
Fire frequency has dramatically increased in the tundra of northern Alaska, USA, which has major implications for the carbon budget of the region and the functioning of these ecosystems, which support important wildlife species. We investigated the postfire succession of plant…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
This research is designed to understand the mechanistic connections among vegetation, the organic soil layer, and permafrost ground stability in Alaskan boreal ecosystems. Understanding these linkages is critical for projecting the impact of climate change on permafrost in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kahn
Alaska and its neighbor to the east, Canada, have kicked off wildfire season in a major way. Blazes have raged across the northern stretches of North America, sending smoke streaming down into the Lower 48 and leaving the landscape charred. The multitudes of fires is a glimpse…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Veraverbeke, Rogers, Randerson
Boreal fires burn into carbon-rich organic soils, thereby releasing large quantities of trace gases and aerosols that influence atmospheric composition and climate. To better understand the factors regulating boreal fire emissions, we developed a statistical model of carbon…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS