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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Linn, Anderson, Winterkamp, Brooks, Wotton, Dupuy, Pimont, Edminster
Field experiments are one way to develop or validate wildland fire-behavior models. It is important to consider the implications of assumptions relating to the locality of measurements with respect to the fire, the temporal frequency of the measured data, and the changes to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood
Principal findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study are presented in an annotated bibliography and summarized in tabular form by site, discipline (ecosystem component), treatment type, and major theme. Composed of 12 sites, the FFS is a comprehensive…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
Summary graphs depicting 20 individual flame length-fire intensity relationships grouped by four different fuel complex types or settings (forest, grassland, shrubland, and laboratory) and 12 individual fireline intensity-crown scorch height relationships for two broad forest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stratton
Instructions for overlaying a fuel model image in Google Earth, derived from a PNW fire behavior workshop in Vancouver, WA.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liang, Calkin, Gebert, Venn, Silverstein
The authors wish to alert readers of the following technical errors found in the original publication.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Hadlow
Foliar moisture content is an important factor regulating how wildland fires ignite in and spread through live fuels but moisture content determination methods are rarely standardised between studies. One such difference lies between the uses of rapid moisture analysers or…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
FSPro (Fire Spread Probability) is a fire modeling system that calculates the probability of fire spread from a fire perimeter or ignition point for a specified time period. Combining landscape data layers (crown base height, crown bulk density, etc.), current weather forecasts…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, French, Ottmar
In recent years, wildfires have emerged as an important part of the global environment. Carbon released from fires during combustion alters the global carbon balance. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities [Wegesser et al., 2009], can impair air quality and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane, Moran, Wimberly, Baer, Finney, Beckendorf, Eidenshink, Zhu
Human land use practices, altered climates, and shifting forest and fire management policies have increased the frequency of large wildfires several-fold. Mitigation of potential fire behaviour and fire severity have increasingly been attempted through pre-fire alteration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hicke, Johnson, Hayes, Preisler
Millions of trees killed by bark beetles in western North America have raised concerns about subsequent wildfire, but studies have reported a range of conclusions, often seemingly contradictory, about effects on fuels and wildfire. In this study, we reviewed and synthesized the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram, Martin
[Excerpted from text] Most experienced firefighters have encountered fire whirlwinds. These whirls, or "fire devils" as they are sometimes called, range in size from small twisters a foot or two in diameter up to violent whirls equal to small tornadoes in size and intensity.…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Turetsky, Kane
We collected data to estimate depth of the remaining (residual) organic layer as well as data to estimate total pre-fire organic layer depth in 99 plots located in mature black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests in interior Alaska that burned during the large fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payeur-Poirier, Coursolle, Margolis, Giasson
Forest harvest and subsequent stand development can have major effects on the carbon cycle of boreal stands. Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes of a three-point black spruce harvest chronosequence located in the boreal forest of eastern North America were measured over a one-year…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Donnell, Jorgenson, Harden, McGuire, Kanevskiy, Wickland
Recent warming at high-latitudes has accelerated permafrost thaw in northern peatlands, and thaw can have profound effects on local hydrology and ecosystem carbon balance. To assess the impact of permafrost thaw on soil organic carbon (OC) dynamics, we measured soil hydrologic…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moreno-Ruiz, Riaño, Arbelo, French, Ustin, Whiting
A new algorithm for mapping burned areas in boreal forest using AVHRR archival data Long Term Data Record (LTDR) (0.05°, ca. 5 km, version 3) was developed in Canada using burn records for the period between 1984 and 1999 and evaluated against AVHRR 1 km and AVHRR-PAL 8 km…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Makoto, Kamata, Kamibayashi, Koike, Tani
Alaskan boreal forests frequently suffer from outbreaks of bark beetles and fires, factors that appear to combine to alter charcoal production. Charcoal (black carbon) production in forest ecosystems is an important pathway to clarify for a more complete understanding of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kalamees, Püssa, Tamm, Zobel
Although boreal forests are biomes which are characterized by periodical forest wildfires, very little is known about adaptations to fire in forest herbs. We investigated whether a putatively fire-dependent herbaceous species-Pulsatilla patens-demonstrated adaptive responses to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Waddington, Thompson, Wotton, Quinton, Flannigan, Benscoter, Baisley, Turetsky
The Duff Moisture Code (DMC) and Drought Code (DC) components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System are used by fire managers to assess the vulnerability of organic soils to ignition and depth of burn despite being developed for upland soils. Given the need to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown, Johnstone
Widespread climate change is expected to lead to altered patterns of disturbance, thereby driving future ecosystem change. This interaction, which is often poorly recognized or understood, may be particularly important in the sub-arctic due to rapid climate change and frequent…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gralewicz, Nelson, Wulder
Wildfires are expected to increase as a result of climate change. In order to effectively manage and monitor climate-induced changes in Canadian forests, a national-scale understanding of factors influencing wildfire susceptibility is necessary. The goal of this study is to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Contreras, Parsons, Chung
Land managers have been using fire behavior and simulation models to assist in several fire management tasks. These widely-used models use average attributes to make stand-level predictions without considering spatial variability of fuels within a stand. Consequently, as the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Lutz, Key, Kane, van Wagtendonk
For decades, wildfire studies have utilized fire occurrence as the primary data source for investigating the causes and effects of wildfire on the landscape. Fire occurrence data fall primarily into two categories: ignition points and perimeter polygons which are used to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moles, Flores-Moreno, Bonser, Warton, Helm, Warman, Eldridge, Jurado, Hemmings, Reich, Cavender-Bares, Seabloom, Mayfield, Sheil, Djietror, Peri, Enrico, Cabido, Setterfield, Lehmann, Thomson
1. We provide a brief overview of progress in our understanding of introduced plant species. 2. Three main conclusions emerge from our review: (i) Many lines of research, including the search for traits that make species good invaders, or that make ecosystems susceptible to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES