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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Joly
I hypothesize that the distribution of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) is affected by multiple, interrelated factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, terrain and snow characteristics as well as predation pressure and habitat. To test this…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Rupp, Olson, Verbyla
Much of the boreal forest in western North America and Alaska experiences frequent, stand replacing wildfires. Secondary succession after fire initiates most forest stands and variations in fire characteristics can have strong effects on pathways of succession. Variations in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono
[From the text] Wildfire is a major disturbance in boreal forests. It attracts research attention not only because it instantaneously releases a large amount of carbon into the atmosphere, but also because it significantly alters hydrology and carbon exchange at the land surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hicke, Allen, Desai, Dietze, Hall, Hogg, Kashian, Moore, Raffa, Sturrock, Vogelmann
Forest insects and pathogens are major disturbance agents that have affected millions of hectares in North America in recent decades, implying significant impacts to the carbon (C) cycle. Here, we review and synthesize published studies of the effects of biotic disturbances on…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, McGuire, Kicklighter, Gurney, Burnside, Melillo
Studies indicate that, historically, terrestrial ecosystems of the northern high-latitude region may have been responsible for up to 60% of the global net land-based sink for atmospheric CO2. However, these regions have recently experienced remarkable modification of the major…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grell, Freitas, Stuefer, Fast
A plume rise algorithm for wildfires was included in WRF-Chem, and applied to look at the impact of intense wildfires during the 2004 Alaska wildfire season on weather simulations using model resolutions of 10 km and 2 km. Biomass burning emissions were estimated using a biomass…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Dale, Adams, McElwain, Joly
In the early 1990s the Nelchina Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Herd (NCH) began a dramatic shift to its current winter range, migrating at least an additional 100 km beyond its historic range. We evaluated the impacts of fire and grazing history on lichen abundance and subsequent…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Mack, Moritz, Pyne, Roos, Scott, Sodhi, Swetnam
Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire-making species, but 'natural' (i.e. independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires have influenced biological evolution and global biogeochemical cycles, making fire integral to the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Juday, Alix, Barber, Winslow, Sousa, Heiser, Herriges, Goetz
Global vegetation models predict that boreal forests are particularly sensitive to a biome shift during the 21st century. This shift would manifest itself first at the biome's margins, with evergreen forest expanding into current tundra while being replaced by grasslands or…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benson, Garmestani
The concept of resilience is now frequently invoked by natural resource agencies in the US. This reflects growing trends within ecology, conservation biology, and other disciplines acknowledging that social-ecological systems require management approaches recognizing their…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Goetz, Mack, Alexander, Jin, Randerson, Loranty
Climate warming and drying are modifying the fire dynamics of many boreal forests, moving them towards a regime with a higher frequency of extreme fire years characterized by large burns of high severity. Plot-scale studies indicate that increased burn severity favors the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report highlights key findings from the most recent (2004-2008) data collected by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program across all ownerships in southeast and south-central Alaska. We present basic resource information such as forest area, ownership, volume, biomass,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Rideout, Hall
In this study, we developed an optimization model and two iterative approaches to improve the efficiency of large fire management. This model allocates suppression effort across time and space to minimize fire loss within a defined duration. It departs from previous research by…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fundamentally different from the rest of the forest types in the United States, Alaska's boreal forest covers a significant amount of acreage in an increasingly variable climate. With its high latitude location, predictions reveal that this region will be the first to experience…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Finney, Ager, Thompson, Gebert
In this paper we review progress towards the implementation of a risk management framework for US federal wildland fire policy and operations. We first describe new developments in wildfire simulation technology that catalyzed the development of risk-based decision support…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masarie
Resource allocation for wildland fire suppression problems, referred to here as Fire-S problems, have been studied for over a century. Not only have the many variants of the base Fire-S problem made it such a durable one to study, but advances in suppression technology and our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, McAllister
The character of a wildland fire can change dramatically in the presence of another nearby fire. Understanding and predicting the changes in behavior due to fire-fire interactions cannot only be life-saving to those on the ground, but also be used to better control a prescribed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary
Forest, woodland, and grassland watersheds throughout the world are major sources of high quality water for human use because of the nature of these soils to infiltrate, store, and transmit most precipitation instead of quickly routing it to surface runoff. This characteristic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Thompson, Finney, Hyde
Development of appropriate management strategies for escaped wildland fires is complex. Fire managers need the ability to identify, in real time, the likelihood that wildfire will affect valuable developed and natural resources (e.g., private structures, public infrastructure,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Phipps, Holmes, Rieck, Thompson
A cornerstone of effective institutional learning and accountability is the development, tracking, and analysis of informative performance measures. In a previous issue of Fire Management Today ('A New Look at Risk Management,' Winter 2011), a series of articles highlighted the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wallenius, Pennanen, Burton
The annual area of forest burned has decreased in recent centuries over large areas of Fennoscandia, Siberia and temperate North America. To determine if this same trend extends to a sparsely populated region of northern Canada, fire scars on living and dead trees, forest stand…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Benson, Caratti, Keifer, 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: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In response to the increasing complexities of fire management the National Fire Decision Support Center (NFDSC) was created in May 2009. The Center, a group of scientists, researchers and practitioners has been operational for the past two years. Complexities of fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Assessing the ecological effects of wildfires in a landscape context is crucial for effective postfire management. While tools exist to assess the severity and ecological effects of wildfires after they burn, managers also need new tools that easily and quickly forecast the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Barnes, Chipman, Urban, Hu
More than 5.4 million acres (2.2 million hectares) of Alaska tundra have burned over the past 60 years (Figure 2), indicating its flammable nature under warm, dry weather conditions. Tundra fires have important impacts on vegetation composition (Racine et al. 1987, 2004),…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES