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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boelman, Rocha, Shaver
Little is known about how satellite imagery can be used to describe burn severity in tundra landscapes. The Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) in 2007 burned over 1000 km2 of tundra on the North Slope of Alaska, creating a mosaic of small (1 m2) to large (>100 m2) patches that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Goetz
To assess ongoing changes in high latitude vegetation productivity we compared spatiotemporal patterns in remotely sensed vegetation productivity in the tundra and boreal zones of North America and Eurasia. We compared the long-term GIMMS (Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken, Hollingsworth, Rupp, Chapin, Trainor, Barrett, Sullivan, McGuire, Euskirchen, Hennon, Beever, Conn, Crone, D'Amore, Fresco, Hanley, Kielland, Kruse, Patterson, Schuur, Verbyla, Yarie
The structure and function of Alaska's forests have changed significantly in response to a changing climate, including alterations in species composition and climate feedbacks (e.g., carbon, radiation budgets) that have important regional societal consequences and human…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Urban, Hu
Tundra fires have important ecological impacts on vegetation, wildlife, permafrost, and carbon cycling, but the pattern and controls of historic tundra fire regimes are poorly understood. We use sediment records from four lakes to develop a 2000-yr fire and vegetation history in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Halofsky, Johnson
Planning and management for the expected effects of climate change on natural resources are just now beginning in the western United States (U.S.), where the majority of public lands are located. Federal and state agencies have been slow to address climate change as a factor in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Littell
Disturbance interactions, and interactions between global warming and human-caused stresses, may compromise the ability of wilderness areas to respond to climate change according to a new paper in the International Journal of Wilderness. A major challenge to maintaining the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Kennedy
Use of scaling terminology and concepts in ecology evolved rapidly from rare occurrences in the early 1980s to a central idea by the early 1990s (Allen and Hoekstra 1992; Levin 1992; Peterson and Parker 1998). In landscape ecology, use of 'scale' frequently connotes explicitly…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilbruner, Peterson
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Halofsky, Peterson, Furniss, Joyce, Millar, Neilson
Concrete ways to adapt to climate change are needed to help land-management agencies take steps to incorporate climate change into management and take advantage of opportunities to balance the negative effects of climate change. Because the development of adaptation tools and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, de Groot, Jenkins, Rogers, Alvarado, Amiro, de Jong, Goetz, Hoy, Hyer, Keane, Law, McKenzie, McNulty, Ottmar, Perez-Salicrup, Randerson, Robertson, Turetsky
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Peterson, Millar, O'Halloran
Developing appropriate management options for adapting to climate change is a new challenge for land managers, and integration of climate change concepts into operational management and planning on United States national forests is just starting. We established science-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Potter, Clements, Finney, Goodrick, Alexander, Cruz, Forthofer, McAllister
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Knapp, Varner, Busse, Skinner, Shestak
Mechanical mastication converts shrub and small tree fuels into surface fuels, and this method is being widely used as a treatment to reduce fire hazard. The compactness of these fuelbeds is thought to moderate fire behaviour, but whether standard fuel models can accurately…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boulet, Parent, Acem, Collin, Séro-Guillaume
Experimentations have been carried out in the infrared using Fourier transform infrared spectrometers. The obtained data characterize the emission of radiation by flames using vegetation as fuel. In a study conducted in parallel, the absorption of radiation by the vegetation has…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bent, Kiekel, Brenton, Taylor
The role of common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) in postfire boreal forest successional trajectories is unknown. We investigated this issue by sampling a 50-m by 40-m area of naturally regenerating black spruce (Picea mariana), trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), and paper…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascough, Bird, Francis, Thornton, Midwood, Scott, Apperley
Charcoal is a key component of the Black Carbon (BC) continuum, where BC is characterized as a recalcitrant, fire-derived, polyaromatic material. Charcoal is an important source of palaeoenvironmental data, and of great interest as a potential carbon sink, due to its high…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessl
Fire is a global process affecting both the biosphere and the atmosphere. As a result, measuring rates of change in wildland fire and understanding the mechanisms responsible for such changes are important research goals. A large body of modeling studies projects increases in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly, Flannigan, Stocks, Bothwell
Wildfire impacts on ecological and socioeconomic systems are regulated, in part, by climate. Association between hemispheric-scale climate patterns and annual wildfire activity can be obscured by local factors that also control the initiation and spread of fires. Vegetation,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Bramel, Anderson
The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool is an ArcGIS toolbar that allows users to interact with the USGS National Map and download LANDFIRE data directly from ArcMap. Once the data are downloaded, it can automatically process the data into raster formats ready for analysis.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
Sarah Trainor presents the opening remarks for the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop, held in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 6-7, 2011. This presentation highlights the Alaska Fire Science Consortium's past, present, and future activities, projects, and news.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Stephen Pyne is a world-renowned environmental historian and author who, over the past three decades, has produced numerous books dealing extensively with the history of fire on Earth and its strong linkage to the evolving role of humans on this planet. With his humanities and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogelmann, Kost, Tolk, Howard, Short, Chen, Huang, Pabst, Rollins
LANDFIRE is a large interagency project designed to provide nationwide spatial data for fire management applications. As part of the effort, many 2000 vintage Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus data sets were used in conjunction with a large volume of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, McCaffrey, Abbas, Halvorsen, Jakes, Moseley
The appeal of biomass utilization grows as the need for wildfire risk reduction, economic development, and renewable energy generation becomes more pressing. However, uncertainty exists regarding the factors necessary to stimulate use. We draw on in-depth interviews with local…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES