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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sokolik, Soja, DeMott, Winker
Wildfire is a natural and integral ecosystem process that is necessary to maintain species composition, structure and ecosystem function. Extreme fires have been increasing over the last decades, which has a substantial impact on air quality, human health, the environment, and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Preparedness Guide for Firefighters and Their Families provides honest information, resources, and conversation starters to give you, the firefighter, tools that will be helpful in preparing yourself and your family for realities of a career in wildland firefighting. This…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Liu, Jiang, Feng, Samsonov
Wildfires could have a strong impact on tundra environment by combusting surface vegetation and soil organic matter. For surface vegetation, many years are required to recover to pre-fire level. In this paper, by using C-band (VV/HV polarization) and L-band (HH polarization)…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wenninger, Hollingsworth, Wagner
Changes to the fire regime in boreal Alaska are shifting the ratio of coniferous to deciduous dominance on the landscape. The increase in aspen and birch may have important effects on predatory hymenopteran assemblages by providing a source of extrafloral nectar and increasing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Teckentrup, Harrison, Hantson, Heil, Melton, Forrest, Li, Yue, Arneth, Hickler, Sitch, Lasslop
Understanding how fire regimes change over time is of major importance for understanding their future impact on the Earth system, including society. Large differences in simulated burned area between fire models show that there is substantial uncertainty associated with…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olnes, Kielland, Genet, Ruess
The future of boreal forests in Alaska, United States, will likely consist of more deciduous-dominant stands because larger and more severe fires facilitate the establishment of deciduous species such as trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) and Alaska birch (Betula…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens, Loehman, Thode, Flatley, Evans, Bunn, Wilcox, Mueller, Yocom, Falk
Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morandini, Toulouse, Silvani, Pieri, Rossi
Data collection in the field is fundamental in providing relevant information during fire spread across vegetation or in industrial environments. Considering the challenge and costs of obtaining measurements in the presence of a fire at such a large scale, the development of non…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colavito, Trainor, Kettle, York
Boundary organizations facilitate two-way, sustained interaction and communication between research and practitioner spheres, deliver existing science, and develop new, actionable scientific information to address emerging social–ecological questions applicable to decision-…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harper, Santín, Doerr, Froyd, Albini, Otero, Viñas, Pérez-Fernández
It is well established in the world’s fire-prone regions that wildfires can considerably change the hydrological dynamics of freshwater catchments. Limited research, however, has focused on the potential impacts of wildfire ash toxicity on aquatic biota. Here, we assess the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rhoades, Nunes, Silins, Doerr
This short paper provides the framework and introduction to this special issue of International Journal of Wildland Fire. Its eight papers were selected from those presented at two consecutive conferences held in 2018 in Europe and the USA that focussed on the impacts of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Loehman, Holsinger
Climate change and associated ecological impacts have challenged many conventional, observation-based approaches for predicting ecosystem and landscape responses to natural resource management. Complex spatial ecological models provide powerful, flexible tools which managers and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillson, Whitlock, Humphrey
Fire management around the world is now undergoing extensive review, with a move toward fire management plans that maintain biodiversity and other ecosystems services, while at the same time mitigating the negative impacts to people and property. There is also increasing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jain
Since 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop has provided a forum for USDA Forest Service managers and scientists to deliberate on management topics, issues, or challenges that reflect the progression of Federal forest management in the United States. Rotating the meeting…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Borchers-Arriagada, Horsley, Palmer, Morgan, Tham, Johnston
Background: Asthma-related outcomes are regularly used by studies to investigate the association between human exposure to landscape fire smoke and health. Robust summary effect estimates are required to inform health protection policy for fire smoke exposure. Objective: To…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmeltz, Marcotullio
Government officials, health professionals, and other decision makers are tasked with characterizing vulnerability and understanding how populations experience risks associated with exposure to climate-related hazards. Spatial analyses of vulnerable locations have given rise to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy, Rutherford, Jandt, Fresco
Under projected patterns of climate change, models predict an increase in wildland fire activity in Alaska, which is likely to strain the capacity of the fire governance system under current arrangements. The Alaska wildland fire governance system consists of the actors,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Quarles, Weise
Direct flame contact, radiant heat, and burning firebrands (or embers) have been identified as three principal ways that cause fire spread in the wildland and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). However, only burning firebrands can initiate a new spot fire at distances further than…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
As a pervasive disturbance agent operating at many spatial and temporal scales, wildland fre is a key abiotic factor affecting forest health both positively and negatively. In some ecosystems, for example, wildland fres have been essential for regulating processes that maintain…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Baltzer, Cumming, Day, Ebert, Goetz, Johnstone, Potter, Rogers, Schuur, Turetsky, Mack
Boreal forest fires emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere primarily through the combustion of soil organic matter1,2,3. During each fire, a portion of this soil beneath the burned layer can escape combustion, leading to a net accumulation of carbon in forests over…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Expansion of high-latitude deciduous forests driven by interactions between climate warming and fire
High-latitude regions have experienced rapid warming in recent decades, and this trend is projected to continue over the twenty-first century1. Fire is also projected to increase with warming2,3. We show here, consistent with changes during the Holocene4, that changes in twenty-…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campagnolo, Oom, Padilla, Pereira
Increasing availability of dense time series of moderate spatial resolution satellite data for mapping global burned areas calls for mapping algorithms designed to easily integrate data at different spatial and temporal resolutions, irrespective of particular grid constraints.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES