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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schmidt
In 2019 the National Science Foundataion (NSF) funded a Navigating the New Arctic project called "Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards". This project looks at three hazards: wildfire, thawing…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Natali, Frumhoff
The Arctic is experiencing record heat and wildfires are ramping up across the global north. New research shows northern forest fire frequency and severity are rapidly increasing, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and worsening climate feedback loops. WHRC…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Rocha, Taylor
We tested whether post-fire seedling establishment of common boreal tree and expanding shrub species at treeline and in Arctic tundra is facilitated by co-migration of boreal forest mycorrhizal fungi. Wildfires are anticipated to facilitate biome shifts at the forest-tundra…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Baltzer, Bourgeau-Chavez, Day, Dieleman, Johnstone, Kane, Rogers, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Mack
Increases in fire frequency, extent, and severity are expected to strongly impact the structure and function of boreal forest ecosystems. An important function of the boreal forest is its ability to sequester and store carbon (C). Increasing disturbance from wildfires, emitting…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Policelli, Horton, Hudon, Patterson, Bhatnagar
Temperate and boreal forests are increasingly suffering from anthropic degradation. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are symbionts with most temperate and boreal forest trees, providing their hosts with soil nutrients and water in exchange for plant carbon. This group of fungi is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritter, Hoffman, Battaglia, Stevens-Rumann, Mell
In frequent‐fire forests, wildland fire acts as a self‐ regulating process creating forest structures that consist of a fine‐grained mosaic of isolated trees, tree groups of various sizes, and non‐treed openings. Though the self‐regulation of forest structure through repeated…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter, Robles
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come with costs, such as reduced…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coop, Parks, Stevens-Rumann, Crausbay, Higuera, Hurteau, Tepley, Whitman, Assal, Collins, Davis, Dobrowski, Falk, Fornwalt, Fulé, Harvey, Kane, Littlefield, Margolis, North, Parisien, Prichard, Rodman
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A potential outcome of the loss of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Hantson, Harrison, Bachelet, Burton, Forkel, Forrest, Li, Melton, Yue, Archibald, Scheiter, Arneth, Hickler, Sitch
In this study, we use simulations from seven global vegetation models to provide the first multi‐model estimate of fire impacts on global tree cover and the carbon cycle under current climate and anthropogenic land use conditions, averaged for the years 2001‐2012. Fire reduces…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, Timm, Breen, Gray, Rupp, Martin, Reynolds, Sesser, Murphy, Littell, Bennett, Bolton, Carman, Genet, Griffith, Kurkowski, Lara, Marchenko, Nicolsky, Panda, Romanovsky, Rutter, Tucker, McGuire
Assessments of climate‐change effects on ecosystem processes and services in high‐latitude regions are hindered by a lack of decision‐support tools capable of forecasting possible future landscapes. We describe a collaborative effort to develop and apply the Integrated Ecosystem…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stralberg, Arseneault, Baltzer, Barber, Bayne, Boulanger, Brown, Cooke, Devito, Edwards, Estevo, Flynn, Frelich, Hogg, Johnston, Logan, Matsuoka, Moore, Morelli, Morissette, Nelson, Nenzén, Nielsen, Parisien, Pedlar, Price, Schmiegelow, Slattery, Sonnentag, Thompson, Whitman
The vast boreal biome plays an important role in the global carbon cycle but is experiencing particularly rapid climate warming, threatening the integrity of valued ecosystems and their component species. We developed a framework and taxonomy to identify climate‐change refugia…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Leonard
Grasslands occur on all of the continents. They collectively constitute the largest ecosystem in the world, making up 40.5% of the terrestrial land area, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Grasslands are not entirely natural because they have formed and developed under natural…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since its inception in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) has brought together forest managers and researchers from across the USDA Forest Service, and more recently our university and other partners, to provide a forum for information sharing and science…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Trends and geographic patterns of change in vegetation phenology metrics and snowmelt timing from the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data sets were analyzed across the state of Alaska for all wildfires that burned during the years 2004 and 2005.…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Celis, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Jean, Mack
Disturbances can interrupt feedbacks that maintain stable plant community structure and create windows of opportunity for vegetation to shift to alternative states. Boreal forests are dominated by tree species that overlap considerably in environmental niche, but there are few…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoecker, Higuera, Kelly, Hu
Boreal forest and tundra biomes are key components of the Earth system because the mobilization of large carbon stocks and changes in energy balance could act as positive feedbacks to ongoing climate change. In Alaska, wildfire is a primary driver of ecosystem structure and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLauchlan, Higuera, Miesel, Rogers, Schweitzer, Shuman, Tepley, Varner, Veblen, Adalsteinsson, Balch, Batllori, Bigio, Brando, Cattau, Chipman, Coen, Crandall, Daniels, Enright, Gross, Harvey, Hatten, Hermann, Hewitt, Kobziar, Landesmann, Loranty, Maezumi, Mearns, Moritz, Myers, Pausas, Pellegrini, Platt, Roozeboom, Safford, Santos, Scheller, Sherriff, Smith, Smith, Watts
1. Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling, and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schumann, Mockrin, Syphard, Whittaker, Price, Johnson-Gaither, Emrich, Butsic
Recent decades have witnessed an escalation in the social, economic, and ecological impacts of wildfires worldwide. Wildfire losses stem from the complex interplay of social and ecological forces at multiple scales, including global climate change, regional wildfire regimes…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascoli, Hacket-Pain, LaMontagne, Cardil, Conedera, Maringer, Motta, Pearse, Vacchiano
1.Synchronous pulses of seed masting and natural disturbance have positive feedbacks on the reproduction of masting species in disturbance‐prone ecosystems. We test the hypotheses that disturbances and proximate causes of masting are correlated, and that their large‐scale…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES