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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guiterman, Lynch, Axelson
We present a new R package to provide dendroecologists with tools to infer, quantify, analyze, and visualize growth suppression events in tree rings. dfoliatR is based on the OUTBREAK program and builds on existing resources in the R computing environment and the well-used dplR…
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
Pyne
Dr. Stephen Pyne, the world's foremost fire historian, discusses how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. To read his responses to the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Fire offers a special perspective by which to understand the Earth being remade by humans. Fire is integrative, so intrinsically interdisciplinary. Fire use is unique to humans, so a tracer of humanity's ecological impacts. Anthropogenic fire history shows the long influence of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Healey, Yang, Cohen
he Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) is a remote sensing-based system for mapping and monitoring landscape change across the United States. LCMS produces annual maps depicting change (vegetation loss and vegetation gain), land cover, and land use from 1985 to present…
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey
The Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest is situated in northwestern Quebec in the Boreal Shield Ecozone. Managed by two constituents of the Universite du Quebec, in collaboration with two forest companies, Norbord and Tembec, the Lake Duparquet Forest has a strong…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohtsuka
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Balch, Goetz, Lehmann, Turetsky
Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth's land surface. Fire regimes are currently changing due to multiple interacting global change drivers, most…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frost, Loehman, Saperstein, Macander, Nelson, Paradis, Natali
Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) is one of the warmest parts of the Arctic tundra biome and tundra fires are common in its upland areas. Here, we combine field measurements, Landsat observations, and quantitative cover maps for tundra plant functional types (PFTs) to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Sae-Lim, Russell
Extensive burning of Arctic tundra landscapes in recent years has contradicted the conventional view that fire is a rare, spatially limited disturbance in tundra. These fires have been identified as harbingers of climate change, despite our limited understanding of Arctic fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flanagan
This webinar will review recent research led by Duke University investigating the impacts of fire on peatland ecosystems. Severe wildfires can cause smoldering ground fires that oxidize entire carbon stores and threaten peatlands around the globe. However, low‐severity surface…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Karp, Holman, Hopper, Grice, Freeman
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced via incomplete combustion of organics, convey signatures of vegetation burned in the geologic past. New and published burn experiments reveal how the quantity, distributions, and isotopic abundances of fire-derived PAHs were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Thoman
This AFSC research brief takes a look at early Alaska fire history from the 1940s. The "Zombie" Fires of 1942 is a historical narrative of an exceptional fire event related to the Alaska Railroad, including an early description of a holdover fire burning over winter.
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
Inglis, Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and improved communication with…
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
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In total, 3997 beetles of 155 species were collected. Of these, 1630 individuals belonging to 104 species were found in large areas of deciduous forest, and 773 individuals from 83 species were found in smaller deciduous forest patches. The matrix areas sampled in 1988 yielded…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak openings currently are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fall, Lertzman
From the text...'In this note, we describe an interactive tutorial on fire frequency analysis, composed of a set of hyperlined spreadsheet documents, programmed in Excel for Windows. This format allows us to present complete working examples of how each method is applied, using…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS