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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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O'Laughlin
The needs and opportunities for assessing and managing risks posed by wildfire are identified through synthesis of natural resources agency and conservation group perspectives. Risk assessment is needed primarily to compare environmental effects of management alternatives,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman
The extraordinary intellectual achievement of the 19th century German botanist Andreas Schimper was his book Plant-Geography upon a Physiological Basis (Schimper, 1903). Through sheer force of imagination and by drawing on numerous written observations from around the world, he…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The 2005 fire season was unusually busy because weather conditions lined up the right combination of dry weather and ignitions from lightning strikes to result in large, long-lasting fires. On September 1, 2005, the number of acres burned in Alaska became greater than that of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond, Keeley
It is difficult to find references to fire in general textbooks on ecology, conservation biology or biogeography, in spite of the fact that large parts of the world burn on a regular basis, and that there is a considerable literature on the ecology of fire and its use for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Toomey, Vierling
Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire potential, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, principal components analysis (PCA), and the tasseled cap…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Rundel
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Listed below is a summary of finding and comments based on lessons learned as this study was conducted. 1. Fixed-wing Type 1 and 2 airtankers are justified as an integral component of the initial attack resources for land management agencies. 2. Due to differences in speed, tank…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwab, Meck, Simone
Wildfires are both dangerous and costly, yet people continue to build in wildfire-prone areas. This poses challenges for governments and planners, who must decide whether to permit development in such areas and how best to design developments that are allowed. This report…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Fires can exert landscape-scale controls on vegetation structure and composition, permafrost dynamics, water quality, air quality, nutrient cycling, primary productivity for herbivores, and biodiversity. In addition, the natural fire regime (fire frequency, fire extent and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel, Barnes
Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned. While the extent of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation can affect fuel accumulation, increase the spatial variability of fuel loads, and affect the susceptibility of forests to fire. Fragmentation creates a complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States and Puerto Rico and few studies…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich
Under high initial attack fire loads, dispatchers sometimes redirect airtankers that are working on other fires. The inherent variability of flight distance between random fire locations is a potentially important aspect of any model that would reallocate the airtanker resource…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robichaud, Elliot, Pierson, Wohlgemuth
We proposed to compare the effectiveness of various postfire erosion mitigation practices to non-treatment on sediment yields for rangelands, chaparral, and forests. The specific objectives were: 1) Determine how well the current BAER postfire erosion mitigation treatments meet…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Nicolas, Consalvi, Loraud, Giroud, Picard
A 3-D computational fluid dynamics model is used to estimate the thermal impact on structures exposed to fire in the urban interface. The burning of vegetation is represented by a well-adjusted gas burner diffusion flame. This article examines two situations, depending on which…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Braun, Fouts, Silver, Putnam
The fire shelter is an integral part of wildland firefighting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). There is growing concern, however, that firefighters may accept greater levels of risk while carrying them. Such concerns are consistent with Risk Homeostasis Theory, which…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens
Nationally, the causes and extent of fire on lands administrated by the United States Forest Service varied significantly from 1940 to 2000, with California experiencing the largest relative annual burned areas. The south-east and California experienced the largest relative area…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Doerr, Cerdà
Fire affects entire ecosystems - their flora, fauna, the atmosphere and soil. Research on the effects of fire to date has focussed primarily on the former three, whereas effects on the soil system have seen less attention. Burning and resulting post-fire environmental conditions…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodall, Lutes
Weight per unit area (load) estimates of Down Woody Material (DWM) are the most common requests by users of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program's DWM inventory. Estimating of DWM loads requires the uniform compilation of DWM transect data for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Gifford Pinchot wanted to be a forester. He was smart, hardworking, and wealthy. He could have studied law, medicine, or banking, but he chose forestry. It was an odd choice, since there were no U.S. foresters at that time. In the 1870's and 1880's, it was thought that American…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Szaro, Boyce, Puchlerz
Planning activities over large landscapes poses a complex of challenges when trying to balance the implementation of a conservation strategy while still allowing for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. We examine a case in southeast Alaska to illustrate the breadth…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theobald, Spies, Kline, Maxwell, Hobbs, Dale
How can ecologists be more effective in supporting ecologically informed rural land-use planning and policy? Improved decision making about rural lands requires careful consideration of how ecological information and analyses can inform specific planning and policy needs. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES