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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The Fire Spread Probability Simulator (FSPro) is a geospatial probabilistic model that predicts fire growth, and is designed to support long-term decision-making (more than 5 days). FSPro calculates two-dimensional fire growth and displays the probability that fire will visit…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh, Seli, Trethewey, Stratton, Brittain
An ensemble simulation system that accounts for uncertainty in long-range weather conditions and two-dimensional wildland fire spread is described. Fuel moisture is expressed based on the energy release component, a US fire danger rating index, and its variation throughout the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This chapter gives users the information needed to enter and manipulate station information, Special Interest Group (SIGs), and Access Control Lists (ACLs). User menu options and functions depend on account type and access level. Tasks described in this chapter are not available…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Smail, Napoli, Bastian, Fay
Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guide for standardized data entry into WFDSS for fires in Alaska.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests. It is not intended to give direction on how to develop inputs or to run the models.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pence, Zimmerman
Federal agency policy requires documentation and analysis of all wildland fire response decisions. In the past, planning and decision documentation for fires were completed using multiple unconnected processes, yielding many limitations. In response, interagency fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the evolution of fuel moistures and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Lichen-spruce woodlands occur in the closed-crown forest zone as a divergent type of the spruce-moss forest because of regeneration failure caused by compounded disturbances (fire, insect outbreaks, and logging). From the southern limit of distribution of lichen woodlands (47…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dillon, Holden, Morgan, Crimmins, Heyerdahl, Luce
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill and consume large amounts of above- and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting in long-lasting consequences for vegetation, aquatic ecosystem productivity and diversity, and other…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers-Smith, Forbes, Wilmking, Hallinger, Lantz, Blok, Tape, Macias Fauria, Sass-Klaassen, Levesque, Boudreau, Ropars, Hermanutz, Trant, Siegwart Collier, Weijers, Rozema, Rayback, Schmidt, Schaepman-Strub, Wipf, Rixen, Menard, Venn, Goetz, Andreu-Hayles, Elmendorf, Ravolainen, Welker, Grogan, Epstein, Hik
Recent research using repeat photography, long-term ecological monitoring and dendrochronology has documented shrub expansion in arctic, high-latitude and alpine tundra ecosystems. Here, we (1) synthesize these findings, (2) present a conceptual framework that identifies…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Millar, Joyce, Furniss, Halofsky, Neilson, Morelli
This guidebook contains science-based principles, processes, and tools necessary to assist with developing adaptation options for national forest lands. The adaptation process is based on partnerships between local resource managers and scientists who work collaboratively to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sommers, Coloff, Conard
This report synthesizes available fire history and climate change scientific knowledge to aid managers with fire decisions in the face of ongoing 21st Century climate change. Fire history and climate change (FHCC) have been ongoing for over 400 million years of Earth history,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zinck, Pascual, Grimm
Ecosystems driven by wildfire regimes are characterized by fire size distributions resembling power laws. Existing models produce power laws, but their predicted exponents are too high and fail to capture the exponent's variation with geographic region. Here we present a minimal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Xu, McDowell
Climate change appears to be altering boreal forests. One recently observed symptom of these changes has been an apparent weakening of the positive relationship between high-latitude boreal tree growth and temperature at some sites (D'Arrigo et al 2008). This phenomenon is…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rykhus, Lu
Twenty-five C-band Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the summer of 2002 to the summer of 2005 are used to map a 2003 boreal wildfire (B346) in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska under conditions of near-persistent cloud cover. Our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Frelich, Voldseth, Bakken, Adair
Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raaflaub, Valeo, Johnson
Investigations were made on the influence of slope on the spatial variations in duff moisture, the decomposing organic matter of the forest floor. Relationships between duff and soil moisture along hillslopes were identified from field measurements over various moisture…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Zhuang
Multivariate alteration detection (MAD) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods are used to analyze land cover changes with Landsat images for the Alaskan Yukon River Basin from 1984 to 2008. The US Geological Survey National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD 2001) is treated as…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lafleur, Paré, Fenton, Bergeron
Context: Following forest harvest, mechanical site preparation (MSP) is commonly used to regenerate harvested sites. In boreal forested peatlands, however, the effectiveness of MSP to regenerate harvested sites is likely to be hampered by thick organic layers. Aim: We sought to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Ahern, Cantin, Flannigan
Fire is an important disturbance in the forest ecosystems of Canada. On average, 18,471 km^2 of forest burn annually, 92% of which burns within the boreal forest. Due to the long history of fire in the boreal forest, many boreal tree species have evolved to rely on fire to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kochtubajda, Burrows, Green, Liu, Anderson, McLennan
The 2004 lightning season and related wildfire activity in Yukon, Canada, was exceptional in many aspects. The synoptic environment during the summer was dominated by a persistent upper level ridge over Alaska and Yukon, bringing above-normal temperatures and below-normal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kitzberger, Aráoz, Gowda, Mermoz, Morales
The generalization that plant communities increase in flammability as they age and invariably lead to resilient self-organized landscape mosaics is being increasingly challenged. Plant communities often exhibit rapidly saturating or even hump-shaped age-flammability trajectories…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono, Tsuyuzaki, Kondo, Uchida
Observations of carbon dioxide (CO2) flux with the eddy covariance technique were conducted at a burned boreal forest site five years after a wildfire and at a mature forest site in Interior Alaska to investigate the effects of wildfire on CO2 exchange in a boreal forest. Both…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES