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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Higuera, Metcalf, Miller, Buma, McWethy, Metcalf, Ratajczak, Nelson, Chaffin, Stedman, McCaffrey, Schoennagel, Harvey, Hood, Schultz, Black, Campbell, Haggerty, Keane, Krawchuk, Kulig, Rafferty, Virapongse
Resilience has become a common goal for science-based natural resource management, particularly in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Integrating varying perspectives and definitions of resilience is a complex and often unrecognized challenge to applying…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sun, Miao, Hanel, Borthwick, Duan, Ji, Li
The effects of heat stress are spatially heterogeneous owing to local variations in climate response, population density, and social conditions. Using global climate and impact models from the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project, our analysis shows that the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Thompson, McCaffrey
Background: There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an over-emphasis on suppression and limited the presence of fire in forested ecosystems. In this paper, we look at competing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Pausas
Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of variability for most fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Englin
Forest fires and their legacy form an inherently dynamic relationship between ecology and human uses of the forest. This paper provides an overview of the dynamic dimensions that are present in the aftermath of a fire. These include the evolution of social benefits as the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker
Presented by Xanthe Walker on April 11th, 2019 at the Bonanza Creek LTER Symposium.She discusses some of the research done with Michelle Mack at NAU – regarding C emissions from boreal forest wildfire.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Levick, Richards, Cook, Schatz, Guderle, Williams, Subedi, Trumbore, Andersen
Fire regimes across the globe have been altered through changes in land use, land management, and climate conditions. Understanding how these modified fire regimes impact vegetation structure and dynamics is essential for informed biodiversity conservation and carbon management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate change. This talk focuses on understanding the consequences of climate change for fire activity in select…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bartolome, Princevac, Weise, Mahalingam, Ghasemian, Venkatram, Vu, Aguilar
Smoke from human-induced fires such as prescribed fires can occasionally cause significant reduction in visibility on highways in the southern United States. Visibility reduction to less than three meters has been termed 'superfog' and environmental conditions that lead to its…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Kleinman, Mackay, Reinhardt, Balmes, Broyles, Ottmar, Naher, Domitrovich
Wildland firefighters are exposed to wood smoke, which contains hazardous air pollutants, by suppressing thousands of wildfires across the U. S. each year. We estimated the relative risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality from existing PM2.5 exposure-response…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Bond
Alexander von Humboldt is a key figure in the history of ecology and biogeography who contributed to shape what is today ecology, as well as the environmentalist movement. His observation that the world’s vegetation varies systematically with climate was one of his many…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
"Risk is defined as a measure of the probability and consequence of uncertain future events" (Thompson et al 2016). We are uncertain about many things each day, though only when that uncertainty interferes with a decision is a risk considered and possibly taken. In that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Coppola, Voulgarakis, Yue, Veraverbeke
Purpose of Review: Understanding of how fire affects the carbon cycle and climate is crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. As those are often based on Earth system model simulations, we identify recent progress and research needs that can improve the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Dell, Ford Hotmann, Fischer, Pierce
Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several decades, with large reductions in spring and summer in the eastern US. In contrast, summertime-mean PM2.5 in the western…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
See how remote sensing is being used to track progress in conifer management. This video was presented by Jason Reinhardt – University of Minnesota-Minneapolis at the Harnessing Technology to Improve Conservation Effectiveness on Western Working Lands| Society for Rangeland…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and the emergence of fire in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Dunfield, Johnstone, Mack, Turetsky, Walker, White, Baltzer
Wildfire is the dominant disturbance in boreal forests and fire activity is increasing in these regions. Soil fungal communities are important for plant growth and nutrient cycling post‐fire but there is little understanding of how fires impact fungal communities across…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel
Wildfires raise risks of floods, debris flows, major geomorphologic and sedimentologic change, and water quality and quantity shifts. A principal control on the magnitude of these changes is field‐saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs), which dictates surface runoff generation…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Liu, Chen, Gao, Tu
The smoldering combustion of natural organic layers such as peatlands leads to the largest and most persistent wildland fires on the Earth. The atmospheric oxygen concentration (mass fraction of oxygen: ) significantly influences the smoldering characteristics of peatlands. This…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes extensively used fire to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasky
Every year, 600,000 Americans over 70 years old stop driving every year. In 1970, blue-collar jobs were 31.2% of total nonfarm employment. By 2016, their share had fallen to 13.6%. The number of days reaching 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' Level or Above on the Air Quality…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship with fire. It is important to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Martinez
Wildland firefighters are exposed to wood smoke, which contains hazardous air pollutants, during wildland fire management assignments across the U.S. each year. In this webinar, Kathleen Navarro, PhD, will present on a recent Joint Fire Science Program study estimating the…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Mouillot, Van der Werf, San Miguel, Tanase, Koutsias, García, Yebra, Padilla, Gitas, Heil, Hawbaker, Giglio
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire activity, as well as its relevance for biogeochemical cycles, climate, air quality, and to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES