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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Globally, wildfire size, severity, and frequency have been increasing, as have related fatalities and taxpayer-funded firefighting costs (1). In most accessible forests, wildfire response prioritizes suppression because fires are easier and cheaper to contain when small (2). In…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prato
Applying fuel reduction treatments (FRTs) to forested landscapes can alleviate undesirable changes in wildfire benefits and costs due to climate change. A conceptual framework was developed for determining the preferred FRTs across planning periods, adapting FRTs to future…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Achtemeier, Nikolov
Most of climate change is understood in terms of global-scale warming caused by carbon dioxide released from anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels. Climate models predict slow but steady warming over the next five to ten decades. Developing fire and smoke management…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Duffy, Chipman, Rocha, Young, Kelly, Dietze
Anthropogenic climate change may result in novel disturbances to Arctic tundra ecosystems. Understanding the natural variability of tundra-fire regimes and their linkages to climate is essential in evaluating whether tundra burning has increased in recent years. Historical…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rodriguez-Franco, Haan
Surveys were collected to assess Forest Service (FS) resource managers' perceptions, attitudes, and informational needs related to climate change and its potential impacts on forests and grasslands. Resource managers with three background types were surveyed. All participants…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Gaglioti, Finney, Jones, Pohlman, Wooller
Wildland fire is a keystone disturbance in the boreal forest, affecting everything from public safety, to woodpecker populations, to permafrost. How settlement by European people impacted wildland fire regimes in Alaska is poorly understood because paleo-fire records near…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbero, Abatzoglou, Larkin, Kolden, Stocks
Very large fires (VLFs) have important implications for communities, ecosystems, air quality and fire suppression expenditures. VLFs over the contiguous US have been strongly linked with meteorological and climatological variability. Building on prior modelling of VLFs (>5000…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Murphy, Wyborn, Yung, Williams
National forests have been asked to assess how climate change will impact nearby human communities. To assist their thinking on this topic, we examine the concepts of social vulnerability and adaptive capacity with an emphasis on a range of theoretical and methodological…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Cochrane, Freeborn, Holden, Brown, Williamson, Bowman
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire danger indices to develop a simple annual metric of fire weather season length…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yang, Tian, Tao, Ren, Kush, Liu, Wang
Fire is a critical component of the Earth system, and substantially influences land surface, climate change, and ecosystem dynamics. To accurately predict the fire regimes in the 21st century, it is essential to understand the historical fire patterns and recognize the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Wolken, St. Clair, Henderson
Current and future risks posed by wildfires are key elements in decisions about management of those fires. Carrying evaluations of that risk more than a few days into the future requires stochastic approaches that depend on the climatology of environmental conditions that favor…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mills, Jones, Carney, St. Juliana, Ready, Crimmins, Martinich, Shouse, DeAngelo, Monier
This paper develops and applies methods to quantify and monetize projected impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and areas burned by wildfires in the contiguous United States under scenarios with and without global greenhouse gas mitigation. The MC1 dynamic global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, McKenzie, Falk, Smithwick, Miller, Kellogg
The prospect of rapidly changing climates over the next century calls for methods to predict their effects on myriad, interactive ecosystem processes. Spatially explicit models that simulate ecosystem dynamics at fine (plant, stand) to coarse (regional, global) scales are…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] The Quadrennial Fire Review (QFR) is a strategic assessment process conducted every four years to evaluate current wildland fire management community strategies and capabilities against best estimates of the future environment. This report is the third iteration…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Verbyla
Accurate monitoring of vegetation dynamics is required to understand the inter-annual variability and long term trends in terrestrial carbon exchange in tundra and boreal ecoregions. In western North America, two Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) products based on spectral…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blanco, Dubois, Littlejohn, Flanders, Robinson, Moshofsky, Welham
Many rural communities in British Columbia (western Canada) are at risk from wildfire. This risk will increase over time as a result of climate change because of higher average temperatures, longer growing seasons, and more intense droughts. On the other hand, these communities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Halofsky, Peterson, Marcinkowski
Federal agencies with responsibility for natural resource management are mandated to consider climate change in planning and projects, and to begin preparing for the effects of climate change. Federal agencies are making significant progress in climate change adaptation,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Herawati, González-Olabarria, Wijaya, Martius, Purnomo, Andriani
Fire is an intrinsic element of many forest ecosystems; it shapes their ecological processes, determines species composition and influences landscape structure. However, wildfires may: have undesirable effects on biodiversity and vegetation coverage; produce carbon emissions to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An, Gan, Cho
This study examines the statistical association of wildfire risk with climatic conditions and non-climate variables in 48 continental US states. Because the response variable “wildfire risk” is a fractional variable bounded between zero and one, we use a non-linear panel data…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodall, Coulston, Domke, Walters, Wear, Smith, Andersen, Clough, Cohen, Griffith, Hagen, Hanou, Nichols, Perry, Russell, Westfall, Wilson
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States annually prepares an inventory of carbon that has been emitted and sequestered among sectors (e.g., energy, agriculture, and forests). For many years, the United States developed an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presentation by Scott Rupp at the Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review, October 14, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Perera
Fire is a natural disturbance that is nearly ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems. The capacity to burn exists virtually wherever vegetation grows. In some forested landscapes, fire is a principal driver of rapid ecosystem change, resetting succession (McKenzie et al. 1996a) and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mouteva, Czimczik, Fahrni, Wiggins, Rogers, Veraverbeke, Xu, Santos, Henderson, Miller, Randerson
Black carbon (BC) aerosol emitted by boreal fires has the potential to accelerate losses of snow and ice in many areas of the Arctic, yet the importance of this source relative to fossil fuel BC emissions from lower latitudes remains uncertain. Here we present measurements of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Veraverbeke, Randerson, Wiggins, Jandt, Miller, Tosca, Worthy, Chan, Henderson
Interior Alaska (2015) and Northwest Territories (2014) recently experienced large fire seasons. Most of the burned area is from fires that ignited before July. Drought-induced early season (June) lightning ignitions were an important driver of these large fire years. Ignition…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES