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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Austin, Keough, Pyle
Grazing and burning are commonly applied practices that can impact the diversity and biomass of wetland plant communities. We evaluated the vegetative response of wetlands and adjacent upland grasslands to four treatment regimes (continuous idle, fall prescribed burning followed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arevalo, Peraza, Alvarez, Bermudez, Delgado, Gallardo, Fernandez-Palacios
This study assessed the recovery of the structure and species composition of a laurel forest in an abandoned firebreak in the Rural Park of Anaga, Tenerife (Canary Islands). We statistically compared values of species richness, density and biovolume between 23 plots in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen
Ecosystem patterns and disturbance processes at one spatial scale often interact with processes at another scale, and the result of such cross-scale interactions can be nonlinear dynamics with thresholds. Examples of cross-scale pattern-process relationships and interactions…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abella, Covington, Fulé, Lentile, Sánchez Meador, Morgan
Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major changes since Euro-American settlement.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright, Sanchez-Azofeifa, Portillo-Quintero, Davies
We used the global fire detection record provided by the satellite-based Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) to determine the number of fires detected inside 823 tropical and subtropical moist forest reserves and for contiguous buffer areas 5, 10, and 15 km…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, Beverly
A large dataset of litter moisture measurements collected at several sites across Canada by the Canadian Forest Service over the period from 1939 to 1961 is analysed. The stands in which sampling was carried out were described by three main variables: forest type (pine, spruce,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Anderson
Advances in fire climatology have derived from recent studies of modern and paleoecological records. We convened a series of workshops and a conference session to report and review regional-scale findings, and these meetings led to the 10 papers in this special issue. Two papers…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shlisky, Hickey, Bragg
Altered fire regimes are a serious threat to biodiversity in almost every major habitat type on earth. Threats to the restoration and maintenance of intact fire regimes (e.g., federal and state fire policies, land use, social values, global plant dispersal, governmental cultures…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheiter, Higgins
A classic problem in coexistence theory is how grasses and trees coexist in savannas. A popular deterministic model of savannas, the rooting niche separation model, is based on an assumption that is not empirically supported in many savannas. Alternative models that do not rely…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) includes equations that calculate energy release and one-dimensional Spread rate in quasi-steady state fires in heterogeneous but spatially-uniform wildland fuelbeds, using a reformulation of the widely used Rothermel fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout-Hanzak, Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Johnson, Betz
Much of the public's attitude toward wildland fire as an important part of natural processes has been misguided, sometimes through programs perpetuating fear and misunderstanding of the vital role of fire in wildlands. Results presented here were part of a larger study that…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Rundel, Jackson, Teskey, Aronson, Bytnerowicz, Wingfield, Proches
Pines (genus Pinus) form the dominant tree cover over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Human activities have affected the distribution, composition, and structure of pine forests for millennia. Different human-mediated factors have affected different pine species in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rich, Breshears, White
Ecosystem responses to key climate drivers are reflected in phenological dynamics such as the timing and degree of ''green-up'' that integrate responses over spatial scales from individual plants to ecosystems. This integration is clearest in ecosystems dominated by a single…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
The manner in which trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest duff moisture changes during the growing season was investigated in Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Canada. A calibration-validation procedure incorporating one calibration site with moisture sampling…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park in central Alberta, Canada. Although prescribed fire is a tool available to modify aspen forests, a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Munger, Zouhar, Smith
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides reviews of the scientific literature regarding basic biology and fire ecology of nearly 1,000 plant and animal species. Managers use FEIS in planning for post-fire rehabilitation, use of fire in ecosystem maintenance and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Heyerdahl, Gibson
We inferred climate drivers of 20th Century years with regionally synchronous forest fires in the U. S. Northern Rockies. We derived annual fire extent from an existing fire atlas that includes 5038 fire polygons recorded from 12 070 086 ha, or 71% of the forested land in Idaho…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Yuan-Farrell, Fievet, Moeller, Kareiva, Foster, Gragson, Kinzig, Kuby, Redman
The fate of private lands is widely seen as key to the fate of biodiversity in much of the world. Organizations that work to protect biodiversity on private lands often hope that conservation actions on one piece of land will leverage the actions of surrounding landowners. Few…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leroux, Schmiegelow, Cumming, Lessard, Nagy
Systematic conservation plans have only recently considered the dynamic nature of ecosystems. Methods have been developed to incorporate climate change, population dynamics, and uncertainty in reserve design, but few studies have examined how to account for natural disturbance.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron, Girardin
The synchrony of regional fire regime shifts across the Quebec boreal forest, eastern Canada, suggests that regional fire regimes are influenced by large-scale climate variability. The present study investigated the relationship of the forest-age distribution, reflecting the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, Adams, Haughland
We studied the small mammal community across a mosaic of habitats created by a large wildfire in the mixed-wood boreal forest of Alberta, Canada, 5 years after the fire occurred. We focussed on four habitat types within this landscape mosaic, namely burnt stands, stands of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurulok, Macdonald
We compared understory vegetation composition and richness in aspen-dominated boreal mixedwood forest stands in Alberta, Canada, that had been burned by wildfire with those that burned and were subsequently salvage logged. Stands were examined at early and midsuccessional (2 and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS