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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chapin, Hollingsworth, Hewitt
Understanding the complex mechanisms controlling treeline advance or retreat in the arctic and subarctic has important implications for projecting ecosystem response to changes in climate. Changes in landcover due to a treeline biome shift would alter climate feedbacks (carbon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Summary of the 2013 Western Arctic Caribou Herd Project in McCarthy’s Marsh, Seward Peninsula Alaska
The Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) has increased dramatically in size over the last forty years, from approximately 75,000 animals in 1970 to 490,000 in 2003, and is now estimated at approximately 348,000 (Dau 2005, Joly et al. 2006). With the increase in population size the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Bennett, Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Genet, Euskirchen, McGuire, Rupp
In Arctic Alaska, changes in climate are expected to increase the extent and frequency of wildfires yet the implication and consequences are poorly understood. Predicting landscape flammability and vegetation dynamics in response to climate change is a challenge because of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLauchlan, Higuera, Gavin, Perakis, Mack, Alexander, Battles, Biondi, Buma, Colombaroli, Enders, Engstrom, Hu, Marlon, Marshall, McGlone, Morris, Nave, Shuman, Smithwick, Urrego, Wardle, Williams, Williams
Ongoing changes in disturbance regimes are predicted to cause acute changes in ecosystem structure and function in the coming decades, but many aspects of these predictions are uncertain. A key challenge is to improve the predictability of postdisturbance biogeochemical…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirkey
In some regions of the West, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) has been declining after more than a century of changing human land-use patterns associated with urbanization, fire suppression, predator extirpation, and agriculture. More recently, episodes of large-scale decline…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weiss
Fire may have direct or indirect effects on herpetofauna. These effects can be variable depending on habitats used and characteristics of individual species. Direct negative effects from fire usually consist of mortality events. Amphibians may be at an increased risk for direct…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The journal 'Fire Ecology' reprinted a classic article by Herbert Wright and Miron Heinselman, first published in 1973, that introduced a special issue of Quaternary Research. It served as the introduction to a series of symposium papers defining the role of fire in the conifer…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
When the federal agencies established policies in the late 1960s and early 1970s to allow the use of natural fires in wilderness, they launched a natural fire management experiment in a handful of wilderness areas. As a result, wildland fire has played more of its natural role…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Keane, Dillon, Jain, Hudak, Karau, Sikkink, Holden, Strand
Comprehensive assessment of ecological change after fires have burned forests and rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We highlight the challenges in effective assessment of fire and burn severity in the field and using both remote…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alfaro, Fady, Vendramin, Dawson, Fleming, Sáenz-Romero, Lindig-Cisneros, Murdock, Vinceti, Navarro, Skrøppa, Baldinelli, El-Kassaby, Loo
The current distribution of forest genetic resources on Earth is the result of a combination of natural processes and human actions. Over time, tree populations have become adapted to their habitats including the local ecological disturbances they face. As the planet enters a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Archer, Predick
The vegetation of semi-arid and arid landscapes is often comprised of mixtures of herbaceous and woody vegetation. Since the early 1900s, shifts from herbaceous to woody plant dominance, termed woody plant encroachment and widely regarded as a state change, have occurred world-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sala, Maestre
A large fraction of grasslands world-wide is undergoing a rapid shift from herbaceous to woody-plant dominance, while in other parts of the world, the opposite transition from woodland to grassland is the dominant phenomenon. These shifts have received increasing attention in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Robertson
We propose to develop and deliver a national conference to bring together the fire management and research community to focus on fire ecology and management issues in northern coastal and interior climates. The objective of this 25th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference is to…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Hollingsworth
Understanding the complex mechanisms controlling treeline advance or retreat in the arctic and subarctic has important implications for projecting ecosystem response to changes in climate. Changes in landcover due to a treeline biome shift would alter climate feedbacks (carbon…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service (NPS) in Alaska shared information about fire regime and fire return intervals using plot data and photos from NPS long-term monitoring plots around the state. She shared examples of short fire return…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Taş, Prestat, Mcfarland, Wickland, Knight, Berhe, Jorgenson, Waldrop, Jansson
Permafrost soils are large reservoirs of potentially labile carbon (C). Understanding the dynamics of C release from these soils requires us to account for the impact of wildfires, which are increasing in frequency as the climate changes. Boreal wildfires contribute to global…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar
Fuel consumption specifies the amount of vegetative biomass consumed during wildland fire. It is a two-stage process of pyrolysis and combustion that occurs simultaneously and at different rates depending on the characteristics and condition of the fuel, weather, topography, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maynard, Paré, Thiffault, Lafleur, Hogg, Kishchuk
There are concerns about the effect of increasing resource extraction and other human activities on the soils and vegetation of the boreal zone. The review covers published papers between 1974 and 2012 to assess the effects of natural disturbances and human activities on soils…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Hollingsworth
Fires in the tundra can drastically alter vegetation and ecosystem characteristics. Drs. Hollingsworth and Breen (from the U.S. Forest Service and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, respectively) review the effects of climate on fire regime and wildfire in Alaska. They compare fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES