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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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DeRose, Long
Increasingly, forest management goals include building or maintaining resistance and/or resilience to disturbances in the face of climate change. Although a multitude of descriptive definitions for resistance and resilience exist, to evaluate whether specific management…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some recent releases of new computer…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedano, Randerson
Climate-driven changes in the fire regime within boreal forest ecosystems are likely to have important effects on carbon cycling and species composition. In the context of improving fire management options and developing more realistic scenarios of future change, it is important…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bistinas, Harrison, Prentice, Pereira
Global controls on month-by-month fractional burnt area (2000-2005) were investigated by fitting a generalised linear model (GLM) to Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) data, with 11 predictor variables representing vegetation, climate, land use and potential ignition sources…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
van Leeuwen, Van der Werf, Hoffmann, Detmers, Rücker, French, Archibald, Carvalho, Cook, de Groot, Hély, Kasischke, Kloster, McCarty, Pettinari, Savadogo, Alvarado, Boschetti, Manuri, Meyer, Siegert, Trollope, Trollope
Landscape fires show large variability in the amount of biomass or fuel consumed per unit area burned. Fuel consumption (FC) depends on the biomass available to burn and the fraction of the biomass that is actually combusted, and can be combined with estimates of area burned to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
For many thousands of years, aboriginal peoples worldwide used fire to manage landscapes. In North America, the frequency and extent of fire (both human caused and natural) were much reduced after European colonization. Fire exclusion became the policy in the United States for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouaoui, Boudreault, Drapeau, Bergeron
Terricolous lichens are an important component of boreal forest ecosystems, both in terms of function and diversity. In this study, we examined the relative contribution of microhabitat characteristics and time elapsed since the last fire in shaping terricolous lichen…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Gustine, Joly
Worldwide, some caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations are experiencing declines due partially to the expansion of industrial development. Caribou can exhibit behavioral avoidance of development, leading to indirect habitat loss, even if the actual footprint is small. Thus, it…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Benscoter, Waddington
We examined the water balance of a forested ombrotrophic peatland and adjacent burned peatland in the boreal plain of western Canada over a 3-year period. Complete combustion of foliage and fine branches dramatically increased shortwave radiation inputs to the peat surface while…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parmentier, Eastman
The detection of land-cover change over large areas using short time series is a challenging and important task in global change studies. This paper introduces a novel method, called the Segment-based Detection of Trends and Change (SDTC), to determine areas that are undergoing…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morishita, Noguchi, Kim, Matsuura
Forest fires can change the greenhouse gase (GHG) flux of borea forest soils. We measured carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes with different burn histories in black spruce (Picea mariana) stands in interior Alaska. The control forest (CF) burned in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Manies, Harden, Hollingsworth
This report describes the collection and processing methodologies for samples obtained at twosites within Interior Alaska: (1) a location within the 2001 Survey Line burn, and (2) an unburnedlocation, selected as a control. In 2002 and 2004 U.S. Geological Survey investigators…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gewehr, Drobyshev, Berninger, Bergeron
We studied the effects of the soil organic layer (SOL) accumulation on growth and distribution of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) within the Quebec Clay Belt. At the landscape scale, spruce was present over a much larger…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frost, Epstein
Circumpolar expansion of tall shrubs and trees into Arctic tundra is widely thought to be occurring as a result of recent climate warming, but little quantitative evidence exists for northern Siberia, which encompasses the world's largest forest-tundra ecotonal belt. We…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moreno-Ruiz, García-Lázaro, Cano, Hernández-Leal
An algorithm based on a Bayesian network classifier was adapted to produce 10-day burned area (BA) maps from the Long Term Data Record Version 3 (LTDR) at a spatial resolution of 0.05° (~5 km) for the North American boreal region from 2001 to 2011. The modified algorithm used…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chu, Guo
The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of forest and permafrost patterns in boreal eco-regions. Forest fires, however, are also an…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loboda, Thelen
Using the extensive archive of historical ERS-1 and -2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, this analysis demonstrates that fire disturbance can be effectively detected and monitored in high northern latitudes using radar technology. A total of 392 SAR images from May to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jhariya, Raj
Fire is one of the most destructive threats faced by our forests. Fire is good servant but a bad master. The fire season starts in March/April continues up to June. Wildfires destroy not only flora (tree, herbs, grassland, forbs, etc.) and their diversity but also considerable…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bar-Massada, Radeloff, Stewart
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on the WUI has been focused on wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there is a need to quantify the extent of areas in which human…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hrobak
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Lynham, Howard
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Trainor
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES