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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furman, Linn, Skowronski, Parsons, O'Brien, Altintas, Hiers
This virtual event held in November of 2022 highlighted significant advancements in the development of management-relevant prescribed fire and wildfire planning tools with a focus on next-generation fuels and fire behavior models. Guest speakers included key researchers and…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Michel, Johnson, Szeligowski, Ritchie, Sih
Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has been extensive work on plant responses to fire, including their adaptations to withstand fire and long-term…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Safdari, Amini, Palarea‐Albaladejo
Pyrolysate gas mixtures are multivariate and relative in nature. Statistical techniques applied to these data generally ignore their relative nature. Published data for permanent gases (CO, CO2, H2, CH4) and tars produced by pyrolysing 15 wildland fuels were reanalysed using…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garg, Roche, Eden, Matz, Oakes, Bellini, Gollner
Emission measurements are available in the literature for a wide variety of field burns and laboratory experiments, although previous studies do not always isolate the effect of individual features such as fuel moisture content (FMC). This study explores the effect of FMC on…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanchez, Eagleston, Anker, Jenkins, Gunda
Water resources are greatly impacted by natural disasters, but very little is known about how these issues are portrayed in the media across different types of disasters. Using a corpus of over 600 thousand local newspaper articles, this research evaluates whether the amount of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fazel-Rastgar, Sivakumar
Wildfire is one of the major novel disturbances to the Arctic forest ecosystem. Relevant Weather and climate regimes are the most important elements affecting fire activity. However, these factors could be considered under changing due to Arctic warming. This paper discusses…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Dinerstein, Wikramanayake, Burgess, Powell, Underwood, D'amico, Itoua, Strand, Morrison, Loucks, Allnutt, Ricketts, Kura, Lamoreux, Wettengel, Hedao, Kassem
The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodiversity-a pragmatic approach, given the highly uneven…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Dickman, Doherty, van Eeden, Geary, Legge, Woinarski, Nimmo
Earth's rapidly warming climate is propelling us towards an increasingly fire-prone future. Currently, knowledge of the extent and characteristics of animal mortality rates during fire remains rudimentary, hindering our ability to predict how animal populations may be impacted…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McWethy
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Grant, Runkle
Wildfires pose a number of acute and chronic health threats, including increased morbidity and mortality. While much of the current literature has focused on the short-term health effects of forest fires and wildfire smoke, few reviews have sought to understand their long-term…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nemens, Varner, Johnson
The practice of removing fire-killed trees from burned forests (or “postfire salvage logging”) has sparked public controversy and scientific debate when conducted on public lands in the United States. This review synthesizes the current scientific literature on the subject,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roces-Díaz, Santín, Martinez-Vilalta, Doerr
Fire is a primary disturbance in the world’s forested ecosystems and its impacts are projected to increase in many regions due to global climate change. Fire impacts have been studied for decades, but integrative assessments of its effects on multiple ecosystem services (ES)…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodwin, Zald, North, Hurteau
Wildfire is capable of rapidly releasing the energy stored in forests, with the amount of water in live and dead biomass acting as a regulator on the amount and rate of energy release. Here we used temperature and fuel moisture data to examine climate-driven changes in fuel…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Gaglioti, Jones, Miller
This project concerned tundra fires in Alaska and how climate-driven changes in fire regimes could impact Alaska’s Arctic ecosystems. We used remote sensing, dendrochronology, field vegetation surveys, and paleoclimate reconstructions to accomplish three goals: 1) to identify…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Lara, Jones, Frost, Hu
Disruptive permafrost thaw known as thermokarst may propel landscape reorganization and exacerbate high-latitude carbon release. However, current understanding of the thermokarst process remains limited. Here we used a remote sensing dataset unprecedented in spatiotemporal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiggins, Anderson, Brown, Campuzano-Jost, Chen, Crawford, Crosbie, Dibb, DiGangi, Diskin, Fenn, Gallo, Gargulinski, Guo, Hair, Halliday, Ichoku, Jimenez, Jordan, Katich, Nowak, Perring, Robinson, Sanchez, Schueneman, Schwarz, Shingler, Shook, Soja, Stockwell, Thornhill, Travis, Warneke, Winstead, Ziemba, Moore
Accurate fire emissions inventories are crucial to predict the impacts of wildland fires on air quality and atmospheric composition. Two traditional approaches are widely used to calculate fire emissions: a satellite-based top-down approach and a fuels-based bottom-up approach.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Silveira, Rossatto, Heilmeier, Overbeck
Fires are widespread disturbance events with many implications for different aspects of plant persistence and vegetation properties. Changing fire regimes can profoundly affect vegetation dynamics and ecosystem properties. Recent steep increases in the frequency of fires…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunty, Brandt, Flatley, Klein, Lane
Recording of the 3rd panel discussion in the Fueling Collaboration Series. Jenifer Bunty (Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers & Scientists/Clemson University) moderates a panel of fire professionals and climate change specialists. They discuss how to incorporate climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Wang, Hou, Li, Tian, Chan, Ciais, Yu, Yue
Wildfire is the most prevalent natural disturbance in the North American boreal forest (NABF) and can cause post-fire land surface temperature change (ΔTfire) through biophysical processes. Fire regimes, such as fire severity, fire intensity and percentage of burned area (PBA),…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Kelly, Genet, Lara, Chipman, McGuire, Hu
Fire disturbance has increased in some tundra ecosystems due to anthropogenic climate change, with important ramifications for terrestrial carbon cycling. Assessment of the potential impact of fire-regime change on tundra carbon stocks requires long-term perspectives because…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES