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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Wong
Historical fire severity is poorly characterized for dry forests in the interior west of North America. We inferred a multicentury history of fire severity from tree rings in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) - ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Goodstein, Euskirchen
Climate change incurs costs, but government adaptation budgets are limited. Beyond a certain point, individuals must bear the costs or adapt to new circumstances, creating political-economic tipping points that we explore in three examples. First, many Alaska Native villages are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turetsky, Bond-Lamberty, Euskirchen, Talbot, Frolking, McGuire, Tuittila
Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and model simulations to explore the role of mosses in ecological stability and resilience. Moss community…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Semmens, Ramage
High latitude drainage basins are experiencing increases in temperature higher than the global average, with snowmelt dominated basins most sensitive to effects in winter because of the snowpack's integration of these changes over the season. This may influence the timing of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: a history and overview of the first projects
In 2009, Congress passed the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, a significant new piece of legislation guiding restoration activities on competitively selected National Forest System lands. The Act established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore, Richardson
Forest disturbance agents, such as wildfire and windthrow, often differ in magnitude and frequency between upland and riparian zones. Riparian forests may be subject to additional disturbance agents that do not affect uplands, including debris flows, floods, bank erosion, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrier, Johnson
We used an information-theoretic model comparison approach to investigate the influence of forest stand attributes resulting from wildfire on the occupancy of winter habitats by barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in the Northwest Territories, Canada. We used…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Michaletz, Johnson, Tyree
• It is widely assumed that post-fire tree mortality results from necrosis of phloem and vascular cambium in stems, despite strong evidence that reduced xylem conductivity also plays an important role.• In this study, experiments with Populus balsamifera were used to demonstrate…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey, Muzika
A predictive equation for estimating fire frequency was developed from theories and data in physical chemistry, ecosystem ecology, and climatology. We refer to this equation as the Physical Chemistry Fire Frequency Model (PC2FM). The equation was calibrated and validated with…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: 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: TTRS
Wang, Hamann, Cumming
Studying changes to the shape, size, and arrangement of patches of forest habitat remains a challenge in the field of landscape ecology. A major issue is that most landscape pattern metrics measure both the amount of habitat as well as habitat configuration. To obtain…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strong, Jung
Large-scale fires are anticipated to increase in frequency in the boreal forest under global climate warming scenarios. To understand concomitant responses by wildlife to fire-induced habitat changes, fecal pellet counts were used to assess Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) use…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi
From the text... 'Summary: Despite the occurrence of fire and the presence of large grazing herds of caribou in the subarctic, the major factor determining the open-canopy nature of the subarctic spruce-lichen woodland is climate. Thus, unlike other transitional open-canopy…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huggard, Arsenault
From the text...'Fire-frequency (FF) analysis is used to derive, from empirical data, parameters that describe the frequency of fires in a system; the time-since-fire distribution; the age-specific probability of fire; and other summary statistics such as the natural fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Casagrandi, Rinaldi
We show in this article how the characteristics of fire recurrence in forests can be theoretically derived from simple information concerning forest morphology. The task is accomplished by means of a minimal model encapsulating a few assumptions on the interactions between…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The 2012 wildfire season isn't over yet, but already this year is shaping up to be the one of the worst on record in the American West. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2005-07
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES