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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Morimoto, Juday, Young
The boreal forest of Alaska has experienced a small area of forest cuttings, amounting to 7137 ha out of a total of 256,284 ha of timberland in the Fairbanks and Kantishna area of state forest land. Low product values and high costs for management have resulted in a low-input…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marlon, Kelly, Daniau, Vannière, Power, Bartlein, Higuera, Blarquez, Brewer, Brücher, Feurdean, Gil-Romera, Iglesias, Maezumi, Magi, Courtney Mustaphi, Zhihai
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records based on charcoal accumulation in sediments enable modern changes in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Whitley, Jenkins
The study uses satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedo products (MCD43A3) to assess changes in albedo at two sites in the treeless tundra region of Alaska, both within the foothills region of the Brooks Range, the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) and 2012…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rocca, Miniat, Mitchell
From the text ... 'Because temperature is forecast to increase almost everywhere, all the regions except the mid-Atlantic region project increases in wildfire activity, despite the variability in precipitation forecasts. The magnitude and impact of future wildfire activity will…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan, Pattison, Brownlee, Cahoon, Hollingsworth
Boreal forests are critical sinks in the global carbon cycle. However, recent studies have revealed increasing frequency and extent of wildfires, decreasing landscape greenness, increasing tree mortality and declining growth of black and white spruce in boreal North America. We…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferster, Eskelson, Andison, LeMay
Wildfires are a common disturbance event in the Canadian boreal forest. Within event boundaries, the level of vegetation mortality varies greatly. Understanding where surviving vegetation occurs within fire events and how this relates to pre-fire vegetation, topography, and fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dash, Fraterrigo, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is projected to increase dramatically in response to anthropogenic climate change. By altering the spatial arrangement of fuels, land-cover configuration may interact with climate change to influence fire-regime dynamics at landscape and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yeboah, Chen, Kingston
Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
From the text ... 'Wind-driven surface and crown fires in conifer forests typically adopt a roughly elliptical shape.Area burned is proportional to the rate of spread increase (following the transition to crowning) to the power of 2.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
This presentation analyzed factors that may influence fires burning or slowing in recent fires, including season, fuels, burn severity of first fire, topography, time since fire, weather, and random or factors line up.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Belcher, Lamont, Lim
Current phylogenetic evidence shows that fire began shaping the evolution of land plants 125 Ma, although the fossil charcoal record indicates that fire has a much longer history (>350 Ma). Serotiny (on-plant seed storage) is generally accepted as an adaptation to fire among…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Abrahamson, Innes
The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and Northwest Fire Science Consortium teamed up with Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) staff to introduce new fire regime products and demonstrate new search functions to inform fire management planning and decision-making in the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Graham, Middlemis-Brown
On nearly every continent, prior and current cultures have practiced land management using fire. Huffman calls the knowledge acquired by people “Traditional Fire Knowledge” (TFK), which consists of “fire‐related knowledge, beliefs and practices that have been developed and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dantas, Hirota, Oliveira, Pausas
Understanding the mechanisms controlling the distribution of biomes remains a challenge. Although tropical biome distribution has traditionally been explained by climate and soil, contrasting vegetation types often occur as mosaics with sharp boundaries under very similar…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Yang, Stehman, Schroeder, Bell, Masek, Huang, Meigs
Evidence of shifting dominance among major forest disturbance agent classes regionally to globally has been emerging in the literature. For example, climate-related stress and secondary stressors on forests (e.g., insect and disease, fire) have dramatically increased since the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), in partnership with the Association for Fire Ecology, offers Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) awards yearly to a handful of top-quality graduate students conducting research in fire science. GRIN awards are intended to nurture the next…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Headman
In the field of ecology, regime shifts are often abrupt and catastrophic occurrences with far reaching effects on global and local ecosystems which result in distinct changes in the composition and function of an ecosystem. The boreal forest provides a long term stable ecosystem…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benali, Russo, Sá, Pinto, Price, Koutsias, Pereira
Each wildfire has its own “history”, burns under specific conditions and leads to unique environmental impacts. Information on where and when it has started and its duration is important to improve understanding on the dynamics of individual wildfires. This information is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Irland
Recent work for the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact contains several useful, simple-to- use tools for studying very large fires. This article examines the 112 largest fires nationally from 1997 to 2011 from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) wildfire list…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swetnam, Bigio
The International Multi-Proxy Database (IMPD) is a public database of fire history sites around the world and is managed by the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA. In the western US, fire history information provides a context for evaluating recent increases in extreme fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES