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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Leidolf, Bissonette
We reviewed the temporal, geographic, and biogeographic distribution, as well as relevant research and publication attributes, of 512 documents addressing the effects of fire on avian communities, to provide an assessment of the scope of this literature and recommendations for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Glenn
Reflectance-based indices derived from remote-sensing data have been widely used for detecting fire severity in forested areas. Rangeland ecosystems, such as sparsely vegetated shrub-steppe, have unique spectral reflectance differences before and after fire events that may not…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lutes, Benson, Keifer, Caratti, Streetman
A new monitoring tool called FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) has been developed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information. The tool was developed through the complementary integration of two fire effects monitoring systems commonly used in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cochrane, Ryan
Fire has been central to terrestrial life ever since early anaerobic microorganisms poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen and multicellular plant life moved onto land. The combination of fuels, oxygen, and heat gave birth to fire on Earth. Fire is not just another evolutionary…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
People have used fire to manipulate the landscape since prehistoric times. The science of using prescribed fire to manage unwanted vegetation is a fairly new phenomenon, and it recently took an important stride forward. Researchers and land managers have compiled a synthesis of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Technology is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the efficiency and effectiveness of fire management. The First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a widely used computer application that predicts the immediate or 'first-order' effects of fire: fuel consumption, tree…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land managers must make fire management decisions considering place, history, and species, an undertaking that requires a vast amount of information that tends to be spread through many publications. The Fire Effects Information System ([FEIS] at www.fs.fed.us/database/feis)…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Raymond, Cushman
The understory is an oft-neglected element in landscape modeling. Most landscape models focus on the dominant vegetation and how it responds over successional time to climate, competitive interactions, and disturbance (Keane et at. 2004, Cary et al. 2006). Even forest stand-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMillin, Fettig
Native tree-killing bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) are a natural component of forest ecosystems. Eradication is neither possible nor desirable and periodic outbreaks will occur as long as susceptible forests and favorable climatic conditions co-exist.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cain, Hayes
The recent dramatic impacts of bark beetle outbreaks across conifer forests of the West have been mapped and reported by entomology and pathology professionals with Forest Health Protection (FHP), a component of USDA Forest Service's State and Private Forestry, and their state…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The compilation of papers in this proceedings is based on a symposium sponsored by the Insect and Diseases Working Group (D5) at the 2007 Society of American Foresters (SAF) convention in Portland, Oregon. The selection of topics parallels the research priorities of the Western…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Smith, Shlisky, Johnson, Swaty
Fire regime alteration is a known threat to the conservation of biological diversity. Specifically, altered fire regimes often result in changes in plant and animal species composition and ecosystem structure. The LANDFIRE Rapid Assessment (LFRA) project recently produced a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This book has been published a decade after Fire's Effects on Ecosystems by DeBano, Neary, and Folliott (1998), and builds on their foundation to update knowledge on natural post-fire processes and describe the use and effectiveness of various restoration strategies that may be…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapp, Estes, Skinner
Prescribed burning may be conducted at times of the year when fires were infrequent historically, leading to concerns about potential adverse effects on vegetation and wildlife. Historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the continental United States were…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dalton
The nation's wildland fire problems have worsened dramatically over the past decade, with more than a doubling of both the average annual acreage burned and federal appropriations for wildland fire management. The deteriorating fire situation has led the agencies responsible for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barazesh
In recent years, the fingers of flame have extended their reach over more of the Earth?s surface. Wildfires are occurring more often and becoming more severe, a perplexing change in fire patterns that threatens to transform ecosystems, reduce biodiversity and even alter climate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartuszevige, Kennedy
The results of this synthesis illustrate several important lessons. First, current forest structure is the result of decades of fire-suppression activities, and so restoration will require multiple treatments to bring forests to within the range of historic variation. Second,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Fontaine
Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-surrogate treatments…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Aplet, Christensen, Conard, Johnson, Omi, Peterson, Swetnam
This synthesis provides an ecological foundation for management of the diverse ecosystems and fire regimes of North America based on scientific principles of fire interactions with vegetation, fuels, and biophysical processes. Although a large amount of scientific data on fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krivtsov, Vigy, Legg, Curt, Rigolot, Lecomte, Jappiot, Lampin-Maillet, Fernandes, Pezzatti
Wildfires are a serious problem affecting many terrestrial ecosystems and causing substantial economic damage. Understanding the variation in structure of fuels (which are predominantly represented by plant litter and live vegetation) is key to understanding the behaviour of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tsuyuzaki, Kushida, Kodama
Albedo influences vegetation structure, permafrost thawing, etc., in particular, after wildfires in Picea mariana forests in Alaska, USA, while albedo changes with plant succession. To understand interactions between albedo and ecosystem recovery after wildfire, surface albedo…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krawchuk, Moritz
Aim: Substantial overlap in the climate characteristics of the United States and China results in similar land-cover types and weather conditions, especially in the eastern half of the two countries. These parallels suggest similarities in fire regimes as well, yet relatively…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico
A common form of land degradation in desert grasslands is associated with the relatively rapid encroachment of woody plants, a process that has important implications on ecosystem structure and function, as well as on the soil hydrological and biogeochemical properties. Until…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lauk, Erb
Human-induced vegetation fires destroy a large amount of biomass each year and thus constitute an important fraction of the human interference with the energy flows of terrestrial ecosystems. This paper presents a quantification of the biomass burned in large-scale as well as…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS