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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lists the conference proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology as part of the 80th AMS Annual Meeting (Jan. 9-14, 2000 in Long Beach, CA).
Year: 2000
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Dwyer, Pereira, Gregoire, DaCamara
Aim: This paper describes the characteristics of the spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation fires as detected from satellite data for the 12 months April 1992 to March 1993. Location: Fires are detected daily at a spatial resolution of 1 km for all land areas of the globe.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weber
In the boreal forests of North America, fire is the keystone ecosystem process that organizes the physical and biological attributes of the biome over most of its range. Boreal forest ecosystem structure and function are described in terms of the adaptations evolved in response…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hayasaka
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Harden, Maines, Ottmar, Sandberg, Valentine
The forest floor contributes the majority of carbon and nitrogen emitted by boreal forest fires. Therefore, estimates of C and N emissions require characterization of volumetric C and N storage of mature stands. Sampling the forest floor by <5-cm depth increments, we have…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McIver, Starr
The scientific literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environ-mental effects of logging and removal of large woody structure. Rehabilitation, the practice of planting or seeding after logging, is not reviewed here. Several publications are cited that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
Major forest types that are characterized by nonlethal understory fire regimes include those where ponderosa pine or Jeffrey pine has been a major component either as a fire-maintained seral type or as the self-perpetuating climax (table 5-1). This includes extensive areas…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Needs for analytical tools, the roles existing tools play, the processes they represent, and how they might interact are elements of key findings generated during a workshop held in Seattle February 17-18, 1999. The workshop was attended by 26 Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coen, Mahalingam, Milford, Clark, Daily
Visible and infrared (IR) observations of flame structure were made of the Frostfire controlled burn carried out 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were taken from Caribou Peak, facing the burn area from the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Clark, Radke, Coen
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics PM380 IR camera out the left side of the USFS/NASA Piper…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
An understanding of the interaction of fuel, fire, burn severity, site, and site vegetation, is essential to predicting the primary and secondary short term and long term impacts of fire. After analyzing fire behavior and by following the changes in species composition and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daily, Mahalingam, Milford, Khunatorn, Clark, Coen, Radke, Sandberg, Riggan
To guide development of coupled atmosphere-fire models, a suite of instruments was assembled to examine the dynamics of wildfires. Visible and Infrared (IR) imaging and UV through near IR spectral observations were made of the Frostfire prescribed burn carried out 8-10 July 1999…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Brittain
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). While the software and packaging are new, many of the reports are not. FireFamily Plus…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botelho, Rego, Ryan
The use of prescribed burning as a tool for forest fire prevention is becoming a more common practice in Pinus pinaster plantations of Northern Portugal. Prescribed fire is used to reduce the understory vegetation with the goal of reducing fuel hazard and the potential for stand…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alvarado, Sandberg, Ottmar
The paper presents the results of mapping fire severity for the FROSTFIRE experiment at different spatial scales. The finest spatial data was collected before the fire on a grid of 160 intensive and 226 dispersed ground plots designed to study fuel bed and vegetation…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Rorig, Bluhm, Sandberg
The moisture content of material on a forest floor can play a significant role in its potential for fire ignition and resulting severity, especially in boreal ecosystems that contain deep layers of moss. To better understand the effect of weather and permafrost on moss moisture…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks, Amiro, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network (CFS-FRN) and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Fosberg, Wotton, Lynham, Ryan
After a decade of speculation and debate, there is now a general scientific consensus that rising greenhouse gas levels in the earth’s atmosphere will result in significant climate change over the next century. The recent statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Smith
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Sandberg, Neilson
The Joint Fire Science Program is funding the development of a new fuels characterization system for the contiguous United States and Alaska. The new system, based on Fuel Characteristic Classes (FCCs), will provide a broad range of realistic fuel property values at a level of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS