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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Magnussen, Fehrman, Platt
Density estimators for k-tree distance sampling are sensitive to the amount of extra Poisson variance in distances to the kth tree. To lessen this sensitivity, we propose an adaptive composite estimator (COM). In simulated sampling from 16 test populations, a three-component…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program's annual national technical report has three objectives: (1) to present forest health status and trends from a national or a multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, (2) to introduce new techniques for analyzing…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire and Fuels Research Map was created in 2006 under FIREHOUSE (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse), a Joint Fire Science Program funded project (06-3-1-26). This database was initially populated from National Park Service fire effects study plots…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Wulder, White, Hilker, Coops
There is a paucity of detailed and timely forest inventory information available for Canada's large, remote northern boreal forests. The Canadian National Forest Inventory program has derived a limited set of attributes from a Landsat-based land cover product representing circa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
May, Hollister
The point frame method is ideal for vegetation monitoring because exact locations may be precisely resampled over time. Many researchers, including those associated with the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), have used a modified point frame method to document vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On behalf of the personnel of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Health Protection work group and its primary partners, I am pleased to present the Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2011 report. We hope that you find it both interesting and informative. One of the main goals of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller, McMillan, Hrobak
The AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium sponsored a fuel moisture sampling field training workshop on May 17, 2012. The purpose of this workshop was to provide step by step instruction for collecting samples and processing moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Kane
We collected data to estimate depth of the remaining (residual) organic layer as well as data to estimate total pre-fire organic layer depth in 99 plots located in mature black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests in interior Alaska that burned during the large fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Miller, Yokel, Bret-Harte, Kolden, Mack
The 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire was an order of magnitude larger than the average fire size in the historic record for northern Alaska and indices of severity were substantially higher than for other recorded tundra burns. An interdisciplinary team assessed fire effects including…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Epstein, Raynolds, Kuss, Kopecky, Frost, Daniels, Leibman, Moskalenko, Matyshak, Khitun, Khomutov, Forbes, Bhatt, Kade, Volanthen, Tichy
Satellite-based measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI; an index of vegetation greenness and photosynthetic capacity) indicate that tundra environments are generally greening and becoming more productive as climates warm in the Arctic. The greening,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randerson, Chen, Van der Werf, Rogers, Morton
In several biomes, including croplands, wooded savannas, and tropical forests, many small fires occur each year that are well below the detection limit of the current generation of global burned area products derived from moderate resolution surface reflectance imagery. Although…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Broughton, Lahm, Fitch, O'Neill
States in the humid southeastern US (ex. Louisiana, South Carolina) are investigating or already implementing a methodology developed in the arid intermountain west where particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) concentrations…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES