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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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A multi-year active fire dataset for the tropics derived from the TRMM VIRS

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

Operational perspective of remote sensing-based forest fire danger forecasting systems

Chowdhury, Hassan
Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions. Here, our aim was to critically analyse the following issues, (i) current operational forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The influence of fire weather and land use on the fire activity of the Lake Abitibi area, eastern Canada

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

Teetering on the edge or too late? Conservation and research issues for avifauna of sagebrush habitats

Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Island population structure of Norway spruce (Picea abies) in northern Sweden

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

Simulating the effects of future fire regimes on western Canadian boreal forests

de Groot, Bothwell, Carlsson, Logan
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting the potential for old-growth forests by spatial simulation of landscape ageing patterns

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

Snag abundance 20, 30, and 40 years following fire and harvesting in boreal forests

Ferguson, Elkie
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of precipitation and drought indices related to fire activity in the US

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

Using the probability of burning to plan for wildland fire use

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

Scheduling removals for fuels management

Hof, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Scaling rules and probability models for surface fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests

Falk, Swetnam
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The changing disturbance regime of the boreal forest of the Canadian Prairie Provinces

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

Fire-induced decrease in forest cover on a small rock outcrop in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Canada

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

Historical range of variability in eastern Cascades forests, Washington, USA

Agee
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biased representation of disturbance rates in the roadside sampling frame in boreal forests: implications for monitoring design

Van Wilgenburg, Beck, Obermayer, Joyce, Weddle
The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is the principal source of data to inform researchers about the status of and trend for boreal forest birds. Unfortunately, little BBS coverage is available in the boreal forest, where increasing concern over the status of species…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The structural, geographic, and financial impacts of wildfire in the United States

Jeffery
From the text ... 'Wildfires are part of a natural environmental cycle and will continue to be a part of our planet's processes along with other weather-related disaster events. But the unique ability of humans to suppress and contain the flames, as well as mitigate the damage,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The citizen of fire

Harbour
From the text ... 'Today, as we are faced with a multitude of problems that need resolution, both at a national scale and within our profession, each of us needs to become involved -- become active citizens of fire and leaders of our 'revolution of success.' The success will…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prolonged absence of disturbance associated with increased environmental stress may lead to reduced seedbank size in Picea mariana in boreal eastern North America

Van Bogaert, Gauthier, Drobyshev, Jayen, Greene, Bergeron
Disturbance plays an important role in the distributional range of species by affecting their colonization potential and persistence. Short disturbance intervals have been linked to reduced seedbank sizes of some species, but the effects of long intervals are largely unknown. To…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfires: systemic changes required

Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sources and implications of bias and uncertainty in a century of US wildfire activity data

Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Differences in satellite-derived NOx emission factors between Eurasian and North American boreal forest fires

Schreier, Richter, Schepaschenko, Shvidenko, Hilboll, Burrows
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal variations in EFs…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quantifying regional, time-varying effects of cropland and pasture on vegetation fire

Rabin, Magi, Shevliakova, Pacala
The global extent of agriculture demands a thorough understanding of the ways it impacts the Earth system through the modification of both the physical and biological characteristics of the landscape as well as through emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. People use fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Regeneration dynamics of white spruce, trembling aspen, and balsam poplar in response to disturbance, climatic, and edaphic factors in the cold, dry boreal forests of the southwest Yukon, Canada

Paudel, Nitschke, Simard, Innes
The southwestern region of the Yukon Territory of Canada has experienced an unprecedented spruce bark beetle outbreak (Dendroctonus rufipennis) and an increase in the frequency of forest fires that extend beyond historical trends and that have caused significant impacts on…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfires: Systemic Changes Required Response

North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS