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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lang, Cornelissen, Shaver, Ahrens, Callaghan, Molau, ter Braak, Holzer, Aerts
Little is known about the impact of changing temperature regimes on composition and diversity of cryptogam communities in the Arctic and Subarctic, despite the well-known importance of lichens and bryophytes to the functioning and climate feedbacks of northern ecosystems. We…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeQuire
Since its inception, the JFSP has funded projects with a strong technology-transfer component. That original commitment to information exchange between scientists and practitioners received an even stronger boost in 2008, the 10th anniversary of the JFSP, which was marked by a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seamon
The Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC) is an interagency center located in Tallahassee, FL. Founded in 1998, PFTC hosts week-long workshops for agency administrators and resource specialists and 21-day sessions for fire practitioners. The center's mission is 'to provide…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holtzhausen
International cooperation and strengthening of wildland fire science and management skills are key to stemming the escalation of wildland fires, according to an accord drawn up by the 5th International Wildfire Conference.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dague
Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) has established an international role in many countries. This experience, along with the recognized technical and professional experience of fire and aviation specialists in the Forest Service, provides the basis for the FAM international…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold
Weather analysis plays a significant and enduring role in wildland fire management. The long-term weather data gathered by the permanent interagency remote automatic weather stations (RAWS) network provides the baseline for almost all preparedness planning and supports all…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frederick
The National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) program, headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, ID, is the primary provider of operational infrared (IR) imaging services for wildland fire management across the country. The national IR program combines advanced…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keller
Chances are good that, if you're reading this, you've had experience operating and parking vehicles in 'the black.' Likewise, you're probably well aware that 'the black' refers to the combustible material or vegetation that has gone through ignition, burning, and smoldering…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
So, why should a narrative be of interest to the fire community? Because it is story that gives cultural meaning to historical and accruing experiences. Firefighters don't recount their actions and memories as data sets; they tell stories. Journalists don't ask about facts and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Binkley
In many parts of the world, both the area and intensity of wildland fires have increased alarmingly. Not only are fires increasing in number, but the nature of these fires is also changing. These fires have been called 'mega-fires,' a term that we use in this conference to imply…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Welch, Williams
Distance learning can best be described as the process of transferring knowledge to learners (students) who are separated from the instructor (teacher) by time or physical distance. It makes use of technology components, such as the Internet, video, CDs, tapes, and other forms…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amoroso, Nitschke, Coates, Astrup
Stand and disturbance dynamics are key processes that need to be assessed along with climate-species interactions if we are to better understand the impacts of climate change on species. In this study we investigated the biotic interactions (competition) between species, the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Semmens, Ramage
High latitude drainage basins are experiencing increases in temperature higher than the global average, with snowmelt dominated basins most sensitive to effects in winter because of the snowpack's integration of these changes over the season. This may influence the timing of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Feng, Alfaro-Murillo, DeAngelis, Schmidt, Barga, Zheng, Ahmad Tamrin, Olson, Glaser, Kielland, Chapin, Bryant
Two models were integrated in order to study the effect of plant toxicity and a trophic cascade on forest succession and fire patterns across a boreal landscape in central Alaska. One of the models, ALFRESCO, is a cellular automata model that stochastically simulates transitions…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Farukh, Hayasaka
Severe lightning flashes, 120,000 a year or four times more than in the average year, started around 300 fires in each of the three years of 2004, 2005, and 2007 but the burnt area of each year differed considerably. The burnt areas in 2004 and 2005 were the largest and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Rocha, van de Weg, Shaver
With anticipated climate change, tundra fires are expected to occur more frequently in the future, but data on the long-term effects of fire on tundra vegetation composition are scarce. This study addresses changes in vegetation structure that have persisted for 17 years after a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strong, Jung
Large-scale fires are anticipated to increase in frequency in the boreal forest under global climate warming scenarios. To understand concomitant responses by wildlife to fire-induced habitat changes, fecal pellet counts were used to assess Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) use…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Higuera, Duffy, Hu
At multidecadal time scales the presence or absence of fire is determind by the combination of summer climate, which influences fuelmoisture, and annual bio-climate, which influences vegetation biomass and fuel production. In tundra and boreal ecosystesm, fire may be limited by…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
King, Hayes, Huntzinger, West, Post
North America is both a source and sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Continental sources - such as fossil-fuel combustion in the US and deforestation in Mexico - and sinks - including most ecosystems, and particularly secondary forests - add and remove CO2 from the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott
Char yield at 500° C has been measured for 40 typical forest fuels, including foliage, wood, small stems, and bark. The effect of changing heating rates was determined from 20° C/min to about 1000° C/min, to simulate a range of burning conditions. The average of all fuels was 26…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Egging, Barney, Thompson
Offers a system for land management planning that enables managers to include and evaluate the effects of wildfire or prescribed burning on resources. Diagrams important considerations and decision-making steps.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kessell, Fischer
Forest managers can model and predict the postfire succession of plant communities using existing and/or readily obtainable data. The methods presented require neither computation nor computer analysis. Examples are provided from the Northern Rocky Mountains, but the methods are…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to analyze climatological data for the purpose of predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire conditions. Provides instruction for use of the system and documents all programs. A computer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helfman, Straub, Deeming
This User's Guide is a comprehensive manual for persons accessing the 1978 version of National Fire Danger Rating System on AFFIRMS. AFFIRMS, the Administrative and Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System is a user-oriented, interactive computer program. Weather…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES