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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fry, Stephens
Descriptions of spatial patterns are important components of forest ecosystems, providing insights into functions and processes, yet basic spatial relationships between forest structures and fuels remain largely unexplored. We used standardized omnidirectional semivariance…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cote, Bouchard, Pothier, Gauthier
In the North American boreal forest, the adoption of forest ecosystem management strategies usually increases the number of forest stands to be treated with irregular or uneven-aged silvicultural systems. However, it is difficult to properly target the stands most appropriate…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Huxman, Collins
Shrub encroachment in arid and semiarid rangelands, a worldwide phenomenon, results in a heterogeneous landscape characterized by a mosaic of nutrient-depleted barren soil bordered by nutrient-enriched shrubby areas known as ''fertile islands.'' Even though shrub encroachment is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Etheridge, Kayahara, Bergeron
The differences between boreal forest landscapes produced by natural disturbance regimes and landscapes produced by harvesting are important and increasingly well documented. To continue harvesting operations while maintaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goetz, Sun, Baccini, Beck
Fire disturbance at high latitudes modifies a broad range of ecosystem properties and processes, thus it is important to monitor the response of vegetation to fire disturbance. This monitoring effort can be aided by lidar remote sensing, which captures information on vegetation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brillinger
Definitions are set down and results of analyses of communication of risk and uncertainty are presented for the fields of wildfires, earthquakes and space debris. These are all fields of some societal importance. Also there is discussion of methods of evaluating and displaying…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pollock, Payette
Aim The spruce-moss forest is the main forest ecosystem of the North American boreal forest. We used stand structure and fire data to examine the long-term development and growth of the spruce-moss ecosystem. We evaluate the stability of the forest with time and the conditions…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinstein, Woodbury
We describe methodologies currently in use or those under development containing features for estimating fire occurrence risk assessment. We describe two major categories of fire risk assessment tools: those that predict fire under current conditions, assuming that vegetation,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant, Peterson
Members of the project team associated with the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) project JFSP-09-S-03-1 entitled 'Crown Fire Behavior Characteristics and Prediction in Conifer Forests: A State of Knowledge Synthesis' are actively seeking help and input from members of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
This powerpoint presentation is a consortium overview for the first session of the 2nd Annual Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop held in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The goals for this workshop are to share new fire re-search findings, network and enhance communications across the fire community, and identify missing links in fire research in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's 2nd annual workshop was held October 14-15, 2010 in the BLM - Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms on Ft. Wainwright (1541 Gaffney Road), in conjunction with the annual Fall Fire Review (Oct. 12-14). This condensed summary includes short…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's 2nd annual workshop was held October 14-15, 2010 in the BLM - Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms on Ft. Wainwright (1541 Gaffney Road), in conjunction with the annual Fall Fire Review (Oct. 12-14). This summary includes presentation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson
The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. the goal is to provide 'one stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
This brainstorming session addressed several questions including: a) How can scientists help support management decisions? b) How can we integrate this information into the field? c) Where are the missing links in AK fire science information? d) How can the Consortium be most…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
The 2009 survey results were summarized and future action items were identified. The 2010 Technology Transfer Survey in now available.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
The Alaska Consortium is part of a national effort to improve technology transfer between management and researchers. The goals of the Alaska Consortium are to coordinate current science delivery efforts, create a formal outreach mechanism for two-way communication between fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In September, 2007, the Anaktuvuk River Fire burned more than 1,000 square kilometers of tundra on Alaska's North Slope, doubling the area burned in that region since record keeping began in 1950. A new analysis of sediment cores from the burned area revealed that this was the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyke, Brooks, D'Antonio
Wildfires change plant communities by reducing dominance of some species while enhancing the abundance of others. Detailed habitat-specific models have been developed to predict plant responses to fire, but these models generally ignore the breadth of fire regime characteristics…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS