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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Taylor
Background: Vegetation change in high latitude tundra ecosystems is expected to accelerate due to increased wildfire activity. High-severity fires increase the availability of mineral soil seedbeds, which facilitates recruitment, yet fire also alters soil microbial composition,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Veira, Lasslop, Kloster
Global warming is expected to considerably impact wildfire activity and aerosol emission release in the future. Due to their complexity, the future interactions between climate change, wildfire activity, emission release, and atmospheric aerosol processes are still uncertain.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penman, Eriksen, Horsey, Bradstock
Wildfire has resulted in significant loss of property and lives. Residents can improve the probability of survival of structures and themselves by undertaking suitable preparation. Only a small proportion of residents adequately prepare for wildfire with monetary and time costs…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shenoy
Global trends of climate warming have been particularly pronounced in northern latitudes, and have been linked to an intensification of the fire regime in Arctic and boreal ecosystems. Increases in fire frequency, extent, and severity that have been observed over the past…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the opportunities and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kinoshita, Chin, Simon, Briles, Hogue, O'Dowd, Gerlak, Albornoz
Across the globe, wildfires are increasing in frequency and magnitude under a warming climate, impacting natural resources, infrastructure, and millions of people every year. At the same time, human encroachment into fire-prone areas has increased the potential for ignition, as…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Julianus
I examined post-fire moose habitat dynamics on Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in interior Alaska with the objective of increasing understanding of local moose habitat characteristics. I estimated browse density, biomass, and summer browse use in a 2005 burn, 1990 burn, 1972…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, Turetsky, Kasischke
Much recent research has investigated the effects of burning on mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forests in interior Alaska, however little research has focused on how frequent reburning affects soil organic layer (SOL) vulnerability in these ecosystems. We compared organic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwahana, Harada, Uchida, Tsuyuzaki, Saito, Narita, Kushida, Hinzman
Geomorphological and thermohydrological changes to tundra, caused by a wildfire in 2002 on the central Seward Peninsula of Alaska, were investigated as a case study for understanding the response from ice-rich permafrost terrain to surface disturbance. Frozen and unfrozen soil…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sparks, Kolden, Talhelm, Smith, Apostol, Johnson, Boschetti
Fire activity, in terms of intensity, frequency, and total area burned, is expected to increase with a changing climate. A challenge for landscape-level assessment of fire effects, often termed burn severity, is that current remote sensing assessments provide very little…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll
A growing body of wildfire research indicates that populations will support or enact different programs, policies and planning approaches to better 'live with wildfire.' This presentation builds on one existing conceptual approach for characterizing local socio-ecological…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted on soils from its early days…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hobbie, Rice, Weber, Smith
We assessed the nutritional strategy of true morels (genus Morchella) collected in 2003 and 2004 in Oregon and Alaska, 1 or 2 y after forest fires. We hypothesized that the patterns of stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) in the sporocarps would match those of saprotrophic fungi and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gowlett
Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and some other predators, are alert…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belcher
Studies of palaeofire rely on quantifying the abundance of fossil charcoals in sediments to estimate changes in fire activity. However, gaining an understanding of the behaviour of palaeofires is also essential if we are to determine the palaeoecological impact of wildfires.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The escalating awareness of non-forested landscapes and realization that more emphasis is needed for an all lands approach to management increasingly requires timely information to improve management effectiveness. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) has been used in a large…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Understanding fine-scale variability in understory fuels is increasingly important as physics-based fire behavior models are driving needs for higher resolution ata. Describing fuelbeds three dimensionally is…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. In the last fifteen years, since the last state-of-knowledge review, tremendous progress has been made in the development of…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Alison York summarizes the plans from the NASA Arctic/Boreal Vulnerability Experiment relevant to fire managers. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Elliot
Being prepared for an emergency is important. Every year wildfires threaten homes and lives, but danger persists even after the flames are extinguished. Post-fire flooding and erosion (Figure 1) can threaten lives, property, and natural resources. To respond to this threat,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Bonds, Long
Burning forest canopies when the surface fuels are unavailable to spread has been conceived as a safe way to reduce the hazard of forests susceptible to crown fires (Schroeder and Dakin 2008). In Interior Alaska spruce forests, particularly black spruce, are recognized as a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Connor, Thompson, Rodríguez y Silva
Wildfire is a global phenomenon that plays a vital role in regulating and maintaining many natural and human-influenced ecosystems but that also poses considerable risks to human populations and infrastructure. Fire managers are charged with balancing the short-term protection…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES