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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Carr, McDonald, Hanes
Hosted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, Richard Carr of CFS provided a national-level forecast, Matthew MacDonald provided a regional outlook from a BC perspective, and Chelene Hanes of NRCan presented some of her research on overwintering and initial DC values.
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As part of the newly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
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
Hu, Wang, Lu, Gui, Wan
Soil microorganisms are a fundamental component of ecosystems and mediate biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem productivity. The frequency and extremity of fire weather is expected to increase under global warming; however, postfire soil microorganisms' patterns and trends remain…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sierra-Hernández, Beaudon, Porter, Mosley-Thompson, Thompson
Wildfires emit large quantities of particles that affect Earth’s climate and human health. Black carbon (BC), commonly known as soot, is directly emitted to the atmosphere by wildfires and other processes and can be transported and deposited in remote regions including high-…
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
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
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
Thompson
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
McCarty
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
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
Bray, Battye, Aneja, Schlesinger
Emissions of ammonia (NH3), oxides of nitrogen (NOx; NO +NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from biomass burning were quantified on a global scale for 2001 to 2015. On average biomass burning emissions at a global scale over the period were as follows: 4.53 ± 0.51 Tg NH3 year−1, 14.…
Year: 2021
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
Hood, Falk, Nie
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter: Cohesive Strategy) mandates the restoration and maintenance of landscapes, with the goal that “landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in accordance with management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harrison, Prentice, Bloomfield, Dong, Forkel, Forrest, Ningthoujam, Pellegrini, Shen, Baudena, Cardoso, Huss, Joshi, Oliveras, Pausas, Simpson
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on extreme fire weather and its drivers, but natural wildfire regimes – and their interactions with…
Year: 2021
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
Baker
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire weather and increase ignition…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Velasco Hererra, Soon, Pérez-Moreno, Velasco Herrera, Martell-Dubois, Rosique-de la Cruz, Fedorov, Cerdeira-Estrada, Bongelli, Zúñiga
The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern borealforest’s capacity as a carbon sink and cause significant…
Year: 2022
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