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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Li, Barclay, Liu, Campbell
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The 2005 fire season was unusually busy because weather conditions lined up the right combination of dry weather and ignitions from lightning strikes to result in large, long-lasting fires. On September 1, 2005, the number of acres burned in Alaska became greater than that of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond, Keeley
It is difficult to find references to fire in general textbooks on ecology, conservation biology or biogeography, in spite of the fact that large parts of the world burn on a regular basis, and that there is a considerable literature on the ecology of fire and its use for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keeley, Rundel
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens
Nationally, the causes and extent of fire on lands administrated by the United States Forest Service varied significantly from 1940 to 2000, with California experiencing the largest relative annual burned areas. The south-east and California experienced the largest relative area…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Doerr, Cerdà
Fire affects entire ecosystems - their flora, fauna, the atmosphere and soil. Research on the effects of fire to date has focussed primarily on the former three, whereas effects on the soil system have seen less attention. Burning and resulting post-fire environmental conditions…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Malamud, Millington, Perry
Wildfires statistics for the conterminous United States (U.S.) are examined in a spatially and temporally explicit manner. We use a high-resolution data set consisting of 88,916 U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service wildfires over the time period 1970-2000 and consider…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carmona-Moreno, Belward, Malingreau, Hartley, Garcia-Alegre, Antonovski, Buchshtaber, Pivovarov
Daily global observations from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers on the series of meteorological satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 1982 and 1999 were used to generate a new weekly global burnt surface product at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with short…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Saab, Powell
We summarize the findings from 10 subsequent chapters that collectively review fire and avian ecology across 40 North American ecosystems. We highlight patterns and future research topics that recur among the chapters. Vegetation types with long fire-return intervals, such as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Manies, Harden, Bond-Lamberty, O'Neill
This study investigated the role of fire-killed woody debris as a source of soil carbon in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands in Manitoba, Canada. We measured the amount of standing dead and downed woody debris along an upland chronosequence, including wood…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Vierling, Deering, Conley
Landscapes containing differing amounts of ecological disturbance provide an excellent opportunity to validate and better understand the emerging Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) vegetation products. Four sites, including 1-year post-fire coniferous, 13-year post…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Gebert, Jones, Neilson
Extreme fire seasons in recent years and associated high suppression expenditures have brought about a chorus of calls for reform of federal firefighting structure and policy. Given the political nature of the topic, a critical review of past trends in area burned, size of fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calef, McGuire, Epstein, Rupp, Shugart
Aim: To understand drivers of vegetation type distribution and sensitivity to climate change. Location: Interior Alaska. Methods: A logistic regression model was developed that predicts the potential equilibrium distribution of four major vegetation types: tundra, deciduous…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Martell
Fire frequency is the most commonly used measure to characterize fire regimes for comparisons across geographical areas or time periods. Within the boreal forest region of the Boreal Shield ecozone of Ontario, fire frequency changes over time and across longitudinal gradients…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Asselin, Payette
Assessment of the impacts of future climate change on the boreal forest and forest-tundra biomes relies on a clear understanding of their past dynamics. Fire history information recorded in lake and peat sediments can be retrieved by counting charcoal particles on pollen slides…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neff, Harden, Gleixner
Boreal ecosystems contain a substantial fraction of the earth's soil carbon stores and are prone to frequent and severe wildfires. In this study, we examine changes in element and organic matter stocks due to a 1999 wildfire in Alaska. One year after the wildfire, burned soils…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Czimczik, Schmidt, Schulze
Fires in boreal forests frequently convert organic matter in the organic layer to black carbon, but we know little of how changing fire frequency alters the amount, composition and distribution of black carbon and organic matter within soils, or affects podzolization. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS