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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wells
This “Ask an Expert” workshop will see Lt. Tim Weaver of the Rapid City, South Dakota, Fire Department share lessons learned for both the homeowner and local agency in Firewise and Fire Adapted Community concept efforts. He will share his experience in gaining residential trust…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Liu, Yan, Johnstone
Disturbance plays a key role in driving ecological responses by creating opportunities for new ecological communities to assemble and by directly influencing the outcomes of assembly. Legacy effects (such as seed banks) and environmental filters can both influence community…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Waldron, Schary, Cardinal
The aims of this research were to develop and test a scale used to measure leadership in wildland firefighting using two samples of USA wildland firefighters. The first collection of data occurred in the spring and early summer and consisted of an online survey. The second set…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Jenkins, Loboda, Flannigan, Jandt, Bourgeau-Chavez, Whitley
A multidecadal analysis of fire in Alaskan Arctic tundra was completed using records from the Alaska Large Fire Database. Tundra vegetation fires are defined by the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map and divided into five tundra ecoregions of Alaska. A detailed review of fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
Fire severity is an important control over post-fire production of deciduous species and can influence the overall quality of winter habitat for herbivores such as moose (Alces alces). Fire-related effects on moose habitat will also likely affect the populations that human…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reisen, Duran, Flannigan, Elliott, Rideout
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Diaz
As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Smith, Abatzoglou
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity project is a comprehensive fire atlas for the United States that includes perimeters and severity data for all fires greater than a particular size (~400 ha in the western US, and ~200 ha in the eastern US). Although the database was…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raposo, Cabiddu, Viegas, Salis, Sharples
Results from a laboratory-scale investigation of a fire spreading on the windward face of a triangular-section hill of variable shape with wind perpendicular to the ridgeline are reported. They confirm previous observations that the fire enlarges its lateral spread after…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
During the past 20 years, study of wind-slope-aided wildland fire behaviour with experimental burns and physical modelling methods has increased. As part of their continuing study of fires in Mediterranean shrub, F. Morandini and X. Silvani reported experimental temperatures,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Hantson, Kloster
Understanding of fire behaviour, especially fire spread, is mostly based on local-scale observations but the same equations are applied in global models on a much coarser scale. Most model formulations include the effect of wind speed with a positive influence on fire spread.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alvarez, Planelles, Rubio
Carbon footprint (CF) can be a key factor stimulating innovation while driving sustainable decision making. The air transport sector and wildfires are considered to be relevant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the available resources for wildfire suppression,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christman, Rollins
Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baudena, D'Andrea, Provenzale
We discuss a simple implicit-space model for the competition of trees and grasses in an idealized savanna environment. The model represents patch occupancy dynamics within the habitat and introduces life stage structure in the tree population, namely adults and seedlings. A tree…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fire intensity is the amount of energy or heat given off by a forest fire at a specific point in time.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Barbero, Kolden, McKenzie, Potter, Stavros, Steel, Stocks, Craig, Drury, Huang, Podschwit, Raffuse, Strand
'Megafire' events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts on cities and towns downwind. Increases in extreme events associated with climate change (e.g.,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rebennack, Santi, Kaffine, Staley
In this study we developed methods to comprehensively analyze the economic risk of post-wildfire debris flows and proof of concept models to optimally allocate resources towards various mitigation options. These methods utilize previously existing post-fire hazard assessment…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Drury
Weather forecasts can help identify environmental conditions conducive to prescribed burning or to increased fire danger. These conditions are important components of fire management tools such as fire ignition potential maps, fire danger rating systems, fire behavior…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Sindelar, Weir
Fire is widely recognized as a critical ecological and evolutionary driver that needs to be at the forefront of land management actions if conservation targets are to be met. However, the prevailing view is that prescribed fire is riskier than other land management techniques.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Fletcher, Weise
We exploited the measurement capacity of a terres trial laser scanner to precisely characterize shrub fuel matrices in a laboratory setting, to abstract fuel elements for fire behavior modeling, and to identify strengths and limitations of TLS for these purposes. Simultaneously…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kielland, Brown
Wildfire is the most ubiquitous ecological disturbance in Alaska's boreal forests, and as the primary driver of secondary succession in boreal forests, it directly influences the availability of habitat for many Alaskan wildlife species. However, it remains unknown whether large…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calvo, Prentice
Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) can disentangle causes and effects in the control of vegetation and fire. We used a DGVM to analyse climate, CO2 and fire influences on biome distribution and net primary production (NPP) in last glacial maximum (LGM) and pre-industrial (…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smurthwaite
Rangelands-those areas in which vegetation consists predominately of grasses, shrubs, forbs, and similar plants-cover 770 million acres (312 million hectares [ha]) in the United States, or roughly 40 percent of the Nation's entire land mass. These areas occupy sprawling…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
What is doctrine? Eight years after the Forest Service adopted this thing we call 'doctrine,' I still hear people say that they don't understand it. Definition: Doctrine is the body of principles that sets the moral or ethical standard and forms the foundation of judgment, mode…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES