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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Massey, Rogers, Berner, Cooperdock, Mack, Walker, Goetz
Deciduous tree cover is expected to increase in North American boreal forests with climate warming and wildfire. This shift in composition has the potential to generate biophysical cooling via increased land surface albedo. Here we use Landsat-derived maps of continuous tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zhang, Douglas, Brodylo, Jorgenson
The permafrost-fire-climate system has been a hotspot in research for decades under a warming climate scenario. Surface vegetation plays a dominant role in protecting permafrost from summer warmth, thus, any alteration of vegetation structure, particularly following severe…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alizadeha, Adamowski, Entekhabi
Land surface-atmosphere coupling and soil moisture memory are shown to combine into a distinct temporal pattern for wildfire incidents across the western United States. We investigate the dynamic interplay of observed soil moisture, vegetation water content, and atmospheric…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Crawford, Feldpausch, Marimon-Junior, de Oliveira, Belcher
Background: Charcoal increases in reflectance with increased intensity and/or duration of heating, and this has been proposed as a potential quantitative metric for fire severity. Because fuel properties also influence reflectance, relationships between heat exposure and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Anthony, Applestein, Germino
Aims: Invasion by annual grasses (IAGs) and concomitant increases in wildfire are impacting many drylands globally, and an understanding of factors that contribute to or detract from community resistance to IAGs is needed to inform postfire restoration interventions. Prefire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

de Dios
Wildfires are a natural phenomenon in many terrestrial ecosystems. However, human activity is changing fire regimes. Some argue that the frequency of extreme wildfire events, characterized by very high intensities and rates of spread, may be increasing (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nim, Morris, Tekasakul, Dejchanchaiwong
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jambrina-Enríquez, Rodríguez de Vera, Davara, Herrera-Herrera, Mallol
Different types of plant tissues and resin can account for the wax lipids found in sedimentary contexts and archaeological samples. Consequently, there is increasing research to characterize the fatty acid carbon isotope ratios of different plant anatomical parts and their plant…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zahed, Bączek-Kwinta
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in this field was initiated in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Edalati-nejad, Ghodrat, Sharples
Background: Wildfires can have detrimental impacts on the environment and urban structures when they spread from wildland areas. Aims: In this work, a numerical study was performed to investigate the effect of downslope terrain on fire-induced flows in the presence of a building…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Misios, Chrysanthou, Tsigaridis, Amiridis
The most extreme manifestation of a fire–weather interaction is the formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) thunderstorms, triggered by super-heated updrafts, which can eject smoke at altitudes exceeding 20 Km. In this study, we investigated climate-related impacts from the most…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Papaioannou, Alamanos, Maris
Wildfires affect and change the burned sites’ condition, functionality, and ecosystem services. Altered hydrologic processes, such as runoff, increased streamflows, and sediment transport, are only a few examples resulting from burned soils, vegetation, and land cover. Such…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Potter, Cooperdock, Veraverbeke, Walker, Mack, Goetz, Baltzer, Bourgeau-Chavez, Burrell, Dieleman, French, Hantson, Hoy, Jenkins, Johnstone, Kane, Randerson, Turetsky, Whitman, Wiggins, Rogers
Fire is the dominant disturbance agent in Alaskan and Canadian boreal ecosystems and releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Burned area and carbon emissions have been increasing with climate change, which have the potential to alter the carbon balance and shift…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jorgenson, Kanevskiy, Roland, Hill, Schirokauer, Stehn, Schroeder, Shur
Permafrost formation and degradation creates a highly patchy mosaic of boreal peatland ecosystems in Alaska driven by climate, fire, and ecological changes. To assess the biophysical factors affecting permafrost dynamics, we monitored permafrost and ecological conditions in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Calef, Schmidt, Varvak, Ziel
The boreal forest of northwestern North America covers an extensive area, contains vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation and soil, and is characterized by extensive wildfires. Catastrophic crown fires in these forests are fueled predominantly by only two evergreen needle-leaf…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Burnett, Schütte, Harms
A warming climate combined with frequent and severe fires cause permafrost to thaw, especially in the region of discontinuous permafrost, where soil temperatures may only be a few degrees below 0 °C. Soil thaw releases carbon and nitrogen into the actively cycling pools, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mitchell, Martin
Vegetation fires - a term encompassing wildfires, biomass burning, forest fires and scrub fires, among others (Bowman et al., 2020) - have played a key role in governing Earth's systems for millions of years, dating to the evolution of vascular plants during the Silurian Period…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Melton, De Fries, Smith, Mason
Climate change is leading to worsening disasters that disproportionately impact older adults. While research has begun to measure disparities, there is a gap in examining wildfire-specific disasters. To address this gap, this scoping review analyzed literature to explore the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bandara, Rajeev, Gad
Wildfires are one of the most hazardous natural disasters in Australia in terms of fatalities, property damage and financial losses. Events of catastrophic wildfires are recorded across the world including in the United States and Canada. Failures along power distribution…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alkhatib, Sahwan, Alkhatieb, Schütt
Due to the harm forest fires cause to the environment and the economy as they occur more frequently around the world, early fire prediction and detection are necessary. To anticipate and discover forest fires, several technologies and techniques were put forth. To forecast the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zhang, Ni, Wei, Chen
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harris, Chapple, McLean, Melville
Globally, fire regimes are undergoing significant changes due to anthropogenic activities and climate change. In some regions, prescribed fire is being reintroduced to management, often after decades of suppression, and wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency. Local…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cheng, Luo, Yang, Li, Luo, Jia, Huang
Changes in soil carbon (C) pools driven by fire in forest ecosystems remain equivocal, especially at a global scale. In this study we analyzed data from 232 studies consisting of 1702 observations to investigate whether ecosystem type, climate zone, stand age, soil depth, slope…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lamborn, Smith
In a rapidly changing environment where fires are becoming more frequent and severe, scientists and managers need information and tools to enhance understanding of the numerous ways in which fire can affect fisheries. We used Ostrom's social–ecological systems framework to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES