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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guo, Brockway, Larson, Wang, Ren
Common practices for invasive species control and management include physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The first two approaches have clear limitations and may lead to unintended (negative) consequences, unless carefully planned and implemented. For example, physical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coyle
Some forest managers have had concerns that prescribed burning after drought will stress mature pines, and increase their susceptibility to beetle attack. However, this concern resulted in many missed opportunities for applying fire after a recent drought abated, as not burning…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Briggs
The incidence and degree of stand disturbance (that is, from fre, insects, and disease) are driving excess tree mortality in the Western United States. Hot and dry conditions associated with drought have stressed forests over a wide geographic area, contributing directly to tree…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox, Huber
The Smoke Science Plan (SSP) was built upon personal interviews and an extensive web-based needs identification with scientists, fire managers, and air quality managers using online questionnaires (Riebau and Fox 2010a, 2010b). It is structured around four themes, which are…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
UAF professor Uma Bhatt reviews progress on the NOAA funded project to improve longer-term predictions of Alaska's fire season. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Falke
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on fire effects on boreal aquatic ecosystems.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt, Veazey
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a progress report on seasonal and subseasonal predictions as well as an introduction to a EPSCoR project.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Phillips
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on carbon cost analysis and feedback.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), completed in November 2018, is a comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magness, Morton
Managers need information about the vulnerability of historical plant communities, and their potential future conditions, to respond appropriately to landscape change driven by global climate change. We model the climate envelopes of plant communities on the Kenai Peninsula in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Creamean, Maahn, de Boer, McComiskey, Sedlacek, Feng
The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, yet the processes that contribute to the enhanced warming are not well understood. Arctic aerosols have been targeted in studies for decades due to their consequential impacts on the energy budget, both directly and indirectly through…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen
Preliminary findings on recovery of 6 tundra and forest-tundra sites that burned in 2012 in NWT. Development of post-fire plant communities is controlled by burn severity.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series.
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem. Wildfires help maintain vegetation diversity, providing suitable habitats for wildlife, but wildfires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen the frequency of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masrur, Petrov, DeGroot
Recent years have seen an increased frequency of wildfire events in different parts of Arctic tundra ecosystems. Contemporary studies have largely attributed these wildfire events to the Arctic's rapidly changing climate and increased atmospheric disturbances (i.e. thunderstorms…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Research has traditionally focused on the wildfire impacts of climate and vegetation, using the approaches developed mainly based on empirical and statistical weather–fire behavior relationships as well as empirical and process-based vegetation–fire relationships. Recent studies…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Archibald, Lehmann, Belcher, Bond, Bradstock, Daniau, Dexter, Forrestel, Greve, He, Higgins, Hoffmann, Lamont, McGlinn, Moncrieff, Osborne, Pausas, Price, Ripley, Rogers, Schwilk, Simon, Turetsky, Van der Werf, Zanne
Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow smouldering peat fires, to low-intensity surface fires, to intense crown fires, depending on…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Ahlström, Hobbie, Reich, Nieradzik, Staver, Scharenbroch, Jumpponen, Anderegg, Randerson, Jackson
Fire frequency is changing globally and is projected to affect the global carbon cycle and climate. However, uncertainty about how ecosystems respond to decadal changes in fire frequency makes it difficult to predict the effects of altered fire regimes on the carbon cycle; for…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Joly
Caribou are one of the most charismatic and enigmatic animals of the high north-and the most important subsistence mammal in Alaska. Today most barren-ground caribou herds in North America are in decline, with some herds down >80% in 30 years prompting Canada to list the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kohlenberg, Turetsky, Thompson, Branfireun, Mitchell
Warming in the boreal forest region has already led to changes in the fire regime. This may result in increasing fire frequency or severity in peatlands, which could cause these ecosystems to shift from a net sink carbon (C) to a net source of C to the atmosphere. Similar to C…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berner, Jantz, Tape, Goetz
Arctic tundra is becoming greener and shrubbier due to recent warming. This is impacting climate feedbacks and wildlife, yet the spatial distribution of plant biomass in tundra ecosystems is uncertain. In this study, we mapped plant and shrub above-ground biomass (AGB; kg m−2)…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Baughman, Jones, Iwahana
Can fire accelerate the changes in the arctic that climate is already inducing and could a single fire event trigger a threshold change in arctic vegetation communities, with far-reaching implications? Ten years following a large and severe wildfire in the arctic foothills…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Richter
Recent changes in global fire activity and future projections can be attributed to a combination of direct human impacts and indirect effects of anthropogenic climate change. To understand how and why these shifts might occur, we need to understand the pre-human history of fires…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumar, Wu, Huang, Liao, Kaplan
We estimate the global Hg wildfire emissions for the 2000s and the potential impacts from the 2000–2050 changes in climate, land use and land cover and Hg anthropogenic emissions by combining statistical analysis with global data on vegetation type and coverage as well as fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES