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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yedinak
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fires occupy the biosphere as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Shields
This report, prepared for land management agencies, details observations on burn severity, animal utilization, and early plant succession on a fire which burned 250,000 acres in the Tanana Flats in 1980.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macander, Palm, Frost, Herriges, Nelson, Roland, Russell, Suitor, Bentzen, Joly, Goetz, Hebblewhite
Previous research indicates that the effects of climate warming, including shrub expansion and increased fire frequency may lead to declining lichen abundance in arctic tundra and northern alpine areas. Lichens are important forage for caribou (Rangifer tarandus), whose…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palm
Caribou from studied Canada and Alaska herds avoided burned areas, especially in winter and at larger spatial and temporal scales.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nikolakis, Roberts
Culture influences how fire is perceived and managed in societies. An increasing risk of catastrophic wildfire has shifted political and academic attention on the use of Indigenous fire management (IFM) as an alternative to the common fire suppression paradigm. However, what is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Johnston, Van der Werf, Flannigan
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental damage. Contemporary fire regimes are increasingly impacted by human activities and climate change, but, owing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Rogers, Veraverbeke, Johnstone, Baltzer, Barrett, Bourgeau-Chavez, Day, de Groot, Dieleman, Goetz, Hoy, Jenkins, Kane, Parisien, Potter, Schuur, Turetsky, Whitman, Mack
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perry, Loeb, White, Weller
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Prescribed fire effects on bats and bat habitat in the eastern U.S., Roger Perry, Research Wildlife Biologist
What we know and don’t know about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harden, McAvoy, Yocom
Fire Ecology: It is everywhere around us, yet so many of us know so little. What is fire ecology? What makes fire behave the way it does? What is a fire ecologist and how does one get into that field? What are the coolest/most surprising/unique fire ecosystems on the planet?…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Varner
PRESCRIBED FIRE SCIENCE: THE CASE FOR A REFINED RESEARCH AGENDA
In this inaugeral episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Giljohann, Duane, Aquilué, Archibald, Batllori, Bennett, Buckland, Canelles, Clarke, Fortin, Hermoso, Herrando, Keane, Lake, McCarthy, Morán-Ordoñez, Parr, Pausas, Penman, Regos, Rumpff, Santos, Smith, Syphard, Tingley, Brotons
Fire has been a source of global biodiversity for millions of years. However, interactions with anthropogenic drivers such as climate change, land use, and invasive species are changing the nature of fire activity and its impacts. We review how such changes are threatening…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium
The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy developments…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cansler, Hood, van Mantgem, Varner
Background Predictive models of post-fire tree and stem mortality are vital for management planning and understanding fire effects. Post-fire tree and stem mortality have been traditionally modeled as a simple empirical function of tree defenses (e.g., bark thickness) and fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loeb
Most bat species depend on forests for roosting, foraging, and drinking during part or all of their life cycles. Many of the world’s forests are managed using a variety of silvicultural treatments and, over the past 40 years, researchers have studied the responses of bats to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flinn
Heat penetration into a standard medium (dry and wet sand) as well as black spruce and hardwood soils was examined in the laboratory. Tautochrones for 70-minute dry and moist conditions in sand indicated that temperatures greater than 55C (taken here to be lethal) were recorded…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dyrness
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Schaffer
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaffer
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baumgartner, Simard
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klinka, Feller, Scagel
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonnicksen, Lee
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Strang
A study of 59 sites in the Central Yukon showed no strong correlation between plant community and time since burning, the post-fire seral communities being both site and fire-specific. Fire intervals were 33, 69, 57 and 62 years in the South Ogilvie, North Ogilvie, Eagle Plains…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS