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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fischer
Many of the most pressing threats to forests result from complex interactions between multiple stressors and require management on large spatial and temporal scales. For this reason, many ecosystem managers have begun to recognize the need to consider the broader context of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Managers and owners of forests across the Nation face urgent challenges, among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, drought, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. Of particular concern are longer fire seasons and the rising size and severity of wildfires, along…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Prichard, Gray, Hessburg, Balch
Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urgenson, Nelson, Haugo, Halpern, Bakker, Ryan, Waltz, Belote, Alvarado
As approaches to ecological restoration become increasingly large scale and collaborative, there is a need to better understand social aspects of restoration and how they influence land management. In this article, we examine social perspectives that influence the determination…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This study examined stakeholder perspectives on reference conditions among collaboratives engaged in the restoration of dry, fire-adapted forest landscapes managed by the U.S. Forest Service. In particular, the authors examined social perspectives that influenced the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Zhu, Zhuang
Fire-related hazards and incidents are a very common phenomenon that affects human society heavily, so many organisations, over a long period of time, have made efforts to mitigate fires and the caused damages. It is widely acknowledged that an evaluation of fire protection…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Erni, Arseneault, Parisien
Although it has long been assumed that wildfire occurrence is independent of stand age in the North American boreal forest, recent studies indicate that young forests may influence burn rates by limiting the ignition and spread of fires for several years. Wildfires not only…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Schweitzer
The long history of fire in North America spans millennia and is recognized as an important driver in the widespread and long-term dominance of oak species and oak natural communities. Frequent wildfires from about 1850 to 1950 resulted in much forest damage, and gained fire a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Alaska Region achieves a unique resonance of natural hazards spanning the surface to the top of the troposphere and civilian/multi-agency activities impacted directly by them. The remote and data sparse expanses of this region elevate the value to forecasters of satellite-…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lojewski
As forests grow, the trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it within their growing biomass (trunk, branches, leaves and root systems). A “forest carbon offset,” is a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)—the emission of which is avoided…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stotts, Lahm, Standish
Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining ecological processes, watershed function, and wildlife habitat, as well as to reduce fuels and mitigate the risk of severe wildfires. However, public…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Madani, Kachurka, Sabourin, Amarger, Golovko, Rossi
In this work we contribute to development of a 'Human-like Visual-Attention-based Artificial Vision' system for boosting firefighters’ awareness about the hostile environment in which they are supposed to move along. Taking advantage from artificial visual-attention, the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eales, Haddaway, Bernes, Cooke, Jonsson, Kouki, Petrokofsky, Taylor
Background: While the effects of prescribed burning on tree regeneration and on pyrophilous and/or saproxylic species are relatively well known, effects on other organisms are less clear. The primary aim of this systematic review was to clarify how biodiversity is affected by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Węgrzyński, Lipecki, Krajewski
The requirement to model wind is inherently connected with the modelling of many fire-related phenomena. With its defining influence on fire behaviour, spread and smoke transport, the solution of a problem with and without wind exposure will lead to substantially different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Węgrzyński, Lipecki
Wind and fire phenomena can together be a devastating force, whether in the case of a building fire, release of smoke in an urban area or forest fire near an urban habitat. Most of the fire phenomena are influenced by the wind, usually for the worse. If we want to understand…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Podschwit, Guttorp, Larkin, Steel
Wildfire behaviors are complex and are of interest to fire managers and scientists for a variety of reasons. Many of these important behaviors are directly measured from the cumulative burn area time series of individual wildfires; however, estimating cumulative burn area time…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video is an introduction on how to manage wildland fuels. The objectives of this video are to: 1) Define wildland fuel management; 2) Explain how fuels are modified; 3) Describe some common desired outcomes; 4) Introduce fuel management in the Wildland Urban Interface; 5)…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Felsberg, Kloster, Wilkenskjeld, Krause, Lasslop
In global fire models, lightning is typically prescribed from observational data with monthly mean temporal resolution while meteorological forcings, such as precipitation or temperature, are prescribed in a daily resolution. In this study, we investigate the importance of the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mullan
This presentation will show the connection between air quality and our changing environment including work done by ANTHC, the role of the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA) and the roles and goals of the Alaska representatives.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cui, Chen, Zheng, Li, Tang, Han, Song, Yan, Zhang, Tian, Zhang
The burning of tropical rainforests in the Southeast Asia emits considerable particulate matter (PM), which has significant effects on air quality and human health. Lacking of reliable local EFPM for rainforest burning in the Southeast Asia is one of the most important causes…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koltz, Burkle, Pressler, Dell, Vidal, Richards, Murphy
Climate change is drastically altering global fire regimes, which may affect the structure and function of insect communities. Insect responses to fire are strongly tied to fire history, plant responses, and changes in species interactions. Many insects already possess adaptive…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Shevliakova, Malyshev, Rabin
Globally, fires are a major source of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere to the atmosphere, occurring on a seasonal cycle and with substantial interannual variability. To understand past trends and variability in sources and sinks of terrestrial carbon, we need quantitative…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahrani, Hemmati, Zhou, Quarles
Fire-retardant coatings could be one option for providing enhanced protection to buildings during a wildfire, particularly when applied to combustible siding and in under‐eave areas. Limited studies have been conducted on their effectiveness but maintaining adequate performance…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leys, Marlon, Umbanhower, Vannière
Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have been converted to urban areas…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Srock, Charney, Potter, Goodrick
Fire weather indices are commonly used by fire weather forecasters to predict when weather conditions will make a wildland fire difficult to manage. Complex interactions at multiple scales between fire, fuels, topography, and weather make these predictions extremely difficult.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES