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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim: In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Harmon, Birdsey, Giardina, Heath, Houghton, Jackson, McKinley, Morrison, Murray, Pataki, Skog
Forests play an important role in the U.S. and global carbon cycle, and carbon sequestered by U.S. forest growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The cycle of forest growth, death, and regeneration and the use of wood removed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou
The Desert Research Institute recently published a science brief describing the El Nino weather pattern and its relationship to fire risk and other land management concerns. The brief also introduces a new monthly El Nino risk mapping product that DRI helped to shape.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Sudden Oak Death Fourth Science Symposium provided a forum for current research on sudden oak death, caused by the exotic, quarantine pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. Ninety submissions describing papers or posters on the following sudden oak death/P. ramorum topics are…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kyle, Theodori, Absher, Jun
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of residents' attachment to their homes and community on their willingness to adopt Firewise recommendations. Our sample was drawn from a population residing in the wildland-urban interface where the threat of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document summarizes the 2010 AFSC workshop. Topics included the Tanacross Shaded Fuel Break project, the Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment project, climate change in Alaska, fire mapping methods using SAR, and potential research needs in Alaska and the method of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel and fire managers perform fuel treatments to manage and restore ecosystems and protect resources. In order to plan effective fuel treatments that accomplish objectives, managers need to analyze fuel conditions and document the expected fire behavior and fire effects both…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire scientists and managers at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress offer their thoughts about the program's accomplishments, challenges, and future direction.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harada, Narita, Saito, Sawada, Fukuda
In the Arctic, wildfire affects the ground surface condition of permafrost due to its heat and disappearance of vegetation, mainly moss layer, and these may cause the degradation of permafrost. At warm tundra areas, permafrost is affected by wildfire sensitively. However, there…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earl, Alexander, Mack
Wildfires are a major natural disturbance in boreal forests of interior Alaska and play an important role in determining forest plant composition and productivity by influencing parameters such as nutrient availability, light transmission, and forest floor heterogeneity.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
Previous published explorations of the relation between contemporary wildfire and lightning in Alaska have focused largely on the central boreal forest. Following the long duration (3 month), large extent (100,000 ha) 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire on the North Slope of Alaska, some…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Bowden, Kling, Schuett, Kostrzewski, Kolden, Findlay
Increased fire frequency and severity are potentially important consequences of climate change in high latitude ecosystems. The 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned from July until October, is the largest recorded tundra fire from Alaska's north slope (approximately 1,000 km^…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Vogel
Long-term monitoring of changes in ecosystem carbon cycling in response to permafrost thawing and thermokarst development is an important component of understanding the rate at which northern ecosystems are changing. The Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Wildfires are an integral disturbance component of dynamic ecological communities, but for humans to thrive in wildfire-prone regions, they must mitigate wildfire risks to human infrastructure and ecosystem services. Boreal forest and tundra ecotypes have co-evolved with…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Ruess, Lloyd, Yarie, Clein, Juday
This paper integrates dendrochronological, demographic, and experimental perspectives to improve understanding of the response of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) tree growth to climatic variability in interior Alaska. The dendrochronological analyses indicate that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wendler, Shulski, Moore
A reliable data set of Arctic sea ice concentration based on satellite observations exists since 1972. Over this time period of 36 years western arctic temperatures have increased; the temperature rise varies significantly from one season to another and over multi-year time…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao-ping, Hua, Xing-liang, Lin, Ming-hua, Cai-ping
Permafrost, covering approximately 25% of the land area in the Northern Hemisphere, is one of the key components of terrestrial ecosystem in cold regions. As a product of cold climate, permafrost is extremely sensitive to climate change. Climate warming over past decades has…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, McGuire, Chapin, Yi, Thompson
Assessing potential future changes in arctic and boreal plant species productivity, ecosystem composition, and canopy complexity is essential for understanding environmental responses under expected altered climate forcing. We examined potential changes in the dominant plant…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell
The wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator (WFDS) extends the fire dynamics simulator (FDS), which has been developed for structural fires, to account for the presence of terrain and/or vegetation and the spread of fires through vegetation. This extension of FDS is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, McGuire, Chapin, Rupp
In the boreal forests of Alaska, recent changes in climate have influenced the exchange of trace gases, water, and energy between these forests and the atmosphere. These changes in the structure and function of boreal forests can then feedback to impact regional and global…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kofinas, Chapin, BurnSilver, Schmidt, Kielland, Martin, Springsteen, Rupp
Subsistence harvesting and wild food production by Athabascan peoples is part of an integrated social-ecological system of interior Alaska. We describe effects of recent trends and future climate change projections on the boreal ecosystem of interior Alaska and relate changes in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Barnes, Jandt, Dennis
The frequency and size of lightning-caused tundra fires could increase with climate warming and may result in major ecosystem changes in vegetation, soils, and wildlife habitat over large areas of the arctic. Two of the longest monitored sites (28-32 years) in Arctic Alaska for…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES