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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As part of the newly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Michel, Johnson, Szeligowski, Ritchie, Sih
Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has been extensive work on plant responses to fire, including their adaptations to withstand fire and long-term…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hu, Wang, Lu, Gui, Wan
Soil microorganisms are a fundamental component of ecosystems and mediate biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem productivity. The frequency and extremity of fire weather is expected to increase under global warming; however, postfire soil microorganisms' patterns and trends remain…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fazel-Rastgar, Sivakumar
Wildfire is one of the major novel disturbances to the Arctic forest ecosystem. Relevant Weather and climate regimes are the most important elements affecting fire activity. However, these factors could be considered under changing due to Arctic warming. This paper discusses…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jandt, York
Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McWethy
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

McCarty
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Grant, Runkle
Wildfires pose a number of acute and chronic health threats, including increased morbidity and mortality. While much of the current literature has focused on the short-term health effects of forest fires and wildfire smoke, few reviews have sought to understand their long-term…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bray, Battye, Aneja, Schlesinger
Emissions of ammonia (NH3), oxides of nitrogen (NOx; NO +NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from biomass burning were quantified on a global scale for 2001 to 2015. On average biomass burning emissions at a global scale over the period were as follows: 4.53 ± 0.51 Tg NH3 year−1, 14.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Roces-Díaz, Santín, Martinez-Vilalta, Doerr
Fire is a primary disturbance in the world’s forested ecosystems and its impacts are projected to increase in many regions due to global climate change. Fire impacts have been studied for decades, but integrative assessments of its effects on multiple ecosystem services (ES)…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Goodwin, Zald, North, Hurteau
Wildfire is capable of rapidly releasing the energy stored in forests, with the amount of water in live and dead biomass acting as a regulator on the amount and rate of energy release. Here we used temperature and fuel moisture data to examine climate-driven changes in fuel…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mann, Gaglioti, Jones, Miller
This project concerned tundra fires in Alaska and how climate-driven changes in fire regimes could impact Alaska’s Arctic ecosystems. We used remote sensing, dendrochronology, field vegetation surveys, and paleoclimate reconstructions to accomplish three goals: 1) to identify…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hood, Falk, Nie
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter: Cohesive Strategy) mandates the restoration and maintenance of landscapes, with the goal that “landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in accordance with management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harrison, Prentice, Bloomfield, Dong, Forkel, Forrest, Ningthoujam, Pellegrini, Shen, Baudena, Cardoso, Huss, Joshi, Oliveras, Pausas, Simpson
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on extreme fire weather and its drivers, but natural wildfire regimes – and their interactions with…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bunty, Brandt, Flatley, Klein, Lane
Recording of the 3rd panel discussion in the Fueling Collaboration Series. Jenifer Bunty (Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers & Scientists/Clemson University) moderates a panel of fire professionals and climate change specialists. They discuss how to incorporate climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Zhao, Wang, Hou, Li, Tian, Chan, Ciais, Yu, Yue
Wildfire is the most prevalent natural disturbance in the North American boreal forest (NABF) and can cause post-fire land surface temperature change (ΔTfire) through biophysical processes. Fire regimes, such as fire severity, fire intensity and percentage of burned area (PBA),…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Baker
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire weather and increase ignition…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Velasco Hererra, Soon, Pérez-Moreno, Velasco Herrera, Martell-Dubois, Rosique-de la Cruz, Fedorov, Cerdeira-Estrada, Bongelli, Zúñiga
The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern borealforest’s capacity as a carbon sink and cause significant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ellis, Bowman, Jain, Flannigan, Williamson
There is mounting concern that global wildfire activity is shifting in frequency, intensity and seasonality in response to climate change. Fuel moisture provides a powerful means of detecting changing fire potential. Here, we use global burned area and weather reanalysis data,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Napier, Chipman
Motivation: Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate shifts, accumulating evidence suggests that disturbance could not only modify expected plant responses but, in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

'Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface' is a Section of the fully open access journal Fire. The main aim of the Section is to highlight research seeking to assess operational approaches to wildland fire management, and to facilitate the sharing of…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES

Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES

vonHedemann, Schultz
In the United States (US), family forest owners, a group that includes individuals, families, trusts, and estates, are the largest single landowner category, owning approximately one-third of the nation's forests. These landowners' individualized decision-making on forest…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vose, Peterson, Fettig, Halofsky, Hiers, Keane, Loehman, Stambaugh
Higher temperatures, lower snowpacks, drought, and extended dry periods have contributed to increased wildfire activity in recent decades. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of large fires, the cumulative area burned, and fire suppression costs and risks in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mansoor, Farooq, Kachroo, Mahmoud, Fawzy, Popescu, Alyemeni, Sonne, Rinklebe, Ahmad
Forests have been undergoing through immense pressure due to the factors like human activities; procurement of forest products and climate change which is a major factor influencing this pressure buildup on forests. Climate change and temperature increase caused by anthropogenic…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES