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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Donovan
Confidence in decisionmaking can often come from knowing if others in similar circumstances would choose the same management strategy. Researchers at the USDA FS Pacific Northwest Research Station and the University of Saskatchewan have developed a Selection Criteria Analysis…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liu, Achtemeier, Goodrick
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scheuner, Makeschin, Wells, Carter
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Treseder, Mack, Cross
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manies, Harden, Wickland
Boreal forests contain a significant portion of the world's terrestrial carbon in their surface organics and soil horizons. Fire, the main disturbance in these forests, plays an important role in regulating the flow of carbon in these landscapes. To better understand the effects…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaatinen, Knief, Dunfield, Yrjala, Fritze
Methane-oxidizing bacteria are the only terrestrial sink for atmospheric methane. Little is known, however, about the methane-oxidizing bacteria that are responsible for the consumption of atmospheric methane, or about the factors that influence their activity and diversity in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Fairbanks, Brockett
Climate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes.Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity. The objective was to compare effects of alternative land use practices on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Williams, Williams, Franklin
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen
Wildland-urban fire destruction depends on homes igniting and thus requires an examination of the ignition requirements. A physical-theoretical model, based on severe case conditions and ideal heat transfer characteristics, estimated wood wall ignition occurrence from flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, D'Antonio, Richardson, Grace, Keeley, DiTomaso, Hobbs, Pellant, Pyke
Plant invasions are widely recognized as significant threats to biodiversity conservation worldwide. One way invasions can affect native ecosystems is by changing fuel properties, which can in turn affect fire behavior and, ultimately, alter fire regime characteristics such as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
This study presents spatially and temporally resolved measurements of air temperatures and radiant energy fluxes in a boreal forest (Pinus banksiana-Picea mariana) crown fire in Northwest Territories, Canada. Measurements were collected 3.1, 6.2, 9.2, 12.3, and 13.8 m above the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payne, Stocks, Robinson, Wasey, Strapp
Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS