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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Giglio, Kendall, Mack
A pan-tropical active fire dataset derived from observations made with the Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS), onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, is described. The dataset consists of monthly 0.5° resolution fire summary products from January 1998…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Langford, Kumar, Hoffman
Wildfires are the dominant disturbance impacting many regions in Alaska and are expected to intensify due to climate change. Accurate tracking and quantification of wildfires are important for climate modeling and ecological studies in this region. Remote sensing platforms (e.g…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rupp, Bieniek, Ziel, Bhatt
Meeting on Thursday November 29th, 2018 at the Alaska Fire Service on the Alaska Climate Adaption Science Center Wildfire Forecasting. Presenters include: Scott Rupp, Peter Bieniek, Robert (Zeke) Ziel, and Uma Bhatt
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Yuan, Wang, Wu, Gao, Sun
Traditional wildfire detection methods are of low efficiency and cannot meet user needs, a novel method based on deep time and space features along transmission line is proposed in this paper, which uses ViBe algorithm to detect movements in videos, and extracts static deep…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lefort, Gauthier, Bergeron
The fire history of two adjacent regions of the boreal forest, one characterized by logging (Ontario -- 510,000 ha) and the other by small scale agricultural activities (Quebec -- 140,000 ha), was studied before and after these regions were opened up to settlement in 1916. From…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wang, Chhatre, Nilsson, Song, Zackrisson, Szmidt
Picea abies, which is predominantly sexual, has been reported to propagate vagetatively through layering in a cold harsh climate, although this has not been demonstrated genetically. Using 105 amplified fragment length polymorphism markers, we analyzed 117 trees of Norway spruce…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

de Groot, Bothwell, Carlsson, Logan
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Perera, Baldwin, Yemshanov, Schnekenburger, Weaver, Boychuk
Planning for old-growth forests requires answers to two large-scale questions: How much old-growth forest should exist? And where can they be sustained in a landscape? Stand-level knowledge of old-growth physiognomy and dynamics are not sufficient to answer these questions. We…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ferguson, Elkie
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hall, Brown
There are several monthly precipitation and drought indices and variants available in the U.S. such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index. Each one has been designed for specific drought related questions, and most of them are utilized in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Miller, Davis, Black
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the probability of burning over a landscape. BurnPro estimates the annual probability of burning across the landscape from information on ignitions, rate of spread through fuels, historical weather, topography, and length of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hof, Omi
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Falk, Swetnam
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Timoney
The subhumid boreal forest of western Canada is different today from what it was 25 years ago. Before the 1950s, the main human impacts on this forest were agricultural expansion, escaped settlement fires, and high-grade logging. The latter half of the 20th Century saw increased…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Rocky outcrops represent about 30% of the boreal forest of Abitibi, Québec, Canada. Although these outcrops have similar edaphic and climatic conditions, their vegetation can vary. Some are composed of a closed forest of black spruce (Picea mariana) and eastern white cedar (…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Agee
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Petrescu, Aversa, Abu-Lebdeh, Apicella, Petrescu
The main idea is that, as the forests of the planet are getting smaller, too much wood is cut and the forests are made too slow, there are also large forest fires due to excessive heat, of people arguing with the law, or simply by chance. Extinguishing fires are generally…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Clark, Antos, Bradfield
Structural and compositional changes were analysed over the course of 400+ yr of post-fire succession in the sub-boreal forests of west-central British Columbia. Using a chronosequence of 57 stands ranging from 11 to 438 yr in age, we examined changes in forest structure and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Yemshanov, Perera
We reviewed the published knowledge on forest succession in the North American boreal biome for its applicability in modelling forest cover change over large extents. At broader scales, forest succession can be viewed as forest cover change over time. Quantitative case studies…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Whitlock, Anderson
From the text ... 'Our experience in conducting fire history studies comes from regions with natural lakes and wetlands. Lake sites are used for most stratigraphic fire history studies, and our understanding of charcoal deposition and burial (i.e., charcoal taphonomy) comes from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Morgan, Defossé, Rodriguez
From the text ... 'This chapter focuses on the practical, management implications of the fire and climate change research that is reported in the earlier chapters of this volume. We start with an overview of fire management goals and strategies, and then draw some parallels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Schoennagel, Godwin, Miller
The combination of frequent droughts, changing climate conditions, and longer fire seasons along with urban development expansion into wildland areas has resulted in more difficult conditions for managing wildfires. Wildfires are causing more frequent and wider-ranging societal…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hesseln
Purpose of Review: Prevention effectiveness relies on knowledge about the spatio-temporal likelihood of fire occurrence and whether fires are a result of natural processes or human influence. Such knowledge can be used to develop more effective tools and strategies to reduce…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES