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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fetcher, Beatty, Mullinax, Winkler
Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fernandes, Botelho
Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simulation, case studies, and analysis of the fire regimes in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally indicate that this fuel management too…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson, Collins, Ruthford, Fukuda
A comprehensive evaluation of the vertical structure of a smoldering smoke plume was afforded by a unique combination of tethersonde measurements (from ground level to about 400 m above ground level (AGL) or 274-674 m above sea level (AGL)), lidar sounding (from about 1.5 to 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macias Fauria, Johnson
The area burned in the North American boreal forest is controlled by the frequency of mid-tropospheric blocking highs that cause rapid fuel drying. Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large-scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation/…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall, Fortin, Kneeshaw, Yamasaki, Messier, Bouthillier, Smyth
At the landscape scale, one of the key indicators of sustainable forest management is the age-class distribution of stands, since it provides a coarse synopsis of habitat potential, structural complexity, and stand volume, and it is directly modified by timber extraction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Epting, Verbyla
Landsat imagery was used to study the relationship between a remotely sensed burn severity index and prefire vegetation and the postfire vegetation response related to burn severity within a 1986 burn in interior Alaska. Vegetation was classified prior to the fire and 16 years…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engling, Carrico, Kreidenweis, Collett, Day, Malm, Lincoln, Hao, Linuma, Herrman
Atmospheric particulate matter can be strongly affected by smoke from biomass combustion, including wildfires, prescribed burns, and residential wood burning. Molecular source tracer techniques help determine contributions of biomass smoke to particle concentrations if…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dunham, Young, Gresswell, Rieman
Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire is the effects of fire and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Donovan, Brown
Wildfire suppression expenditures on national forest land have increased over the last 35 years, exceeding US$ 1 billion in 2000 and 2002. These increases in expenditure have been attributed, in part, to a century of aggressive wildfire suppression, resulting in a buildup of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Donovan, Noordijk
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Noordijk
To determine the optimal suppression strategy for escaped wildfires, federal land managers are required to conduct a wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA). As part of the WFSA process, fire managers estimate final fire size and suppression costs. Estimates from 58 WFSAs…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Doane, O'Laughlin, Morgan, Miller
American society has a general cultural bias toward controlling nature (Glover 2000) and, in particular, a strong bias for suppressing wildfire, even in wilderness (Saveland et al. 1988). Nevertheless, the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy directs managers to 'allow…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dissing, Verbyla
The relationship between lightning strike density, vegetation, and elevation was investigated at three different spatial scales: (i) interior Alaska (~630,000 km^2), (ii) six longitudinal transects (~100,000 km^2), and (iii) 17 individual physiographic subregions (~50,000 km^2)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dipert, Warren
A description is given of the FIRE MOUSE TRAP (FMT - Flying Infrared Enhanced Manoeuvrable Operational User Simple Electronic Tactical Reconnaissance and Patrol) system for mapping forest fires, which was first used experimentally in Alaska in 1985. Forward looking infrared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dioumaeva, Trumbore, Schuur, Goulden, Litvak, Hirsch
The response of large stores of carbon in boreal forest soils to global warming is a major uncertainty in predicting the future carbon budget. We measured the temperature dependence of decomposition for upland boreal peat under black spruce forest with sphagnum and feather moss…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Didion, Fortin, Fall
Effective forest ecosystem-based management requires a thorough understanding of the interactions between anthropogenic and natural disturbance processes over larger spatial and temporal scales than stands and rotation ages. Because harvesting does not preclude fire, it is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DeLong, Kessler
Our study objective was to develop a better understanding of the ecological significance of unburned forest remnants in successional sub-boreal landscapes created by fire. We characterized remnant forest patches and compared them to matrix forest in young, mature and old age…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DellaSala, Williams, Williams, Franklin
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Bothwell, Taylor, Wotton, Stocks, Alexander
The effect of crown fires on Pinus banksiana Lamb. regeneration was studied in separate forest- and cone-burning experiments. Nine plots (0.56-2.25 ha) of jack pine trees near Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, were burned using crown fires to determine the effects of fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cunningham, Goodrick, Hussaini, Linn
The structure and dynamics of buoyant plumes arising from surface-based heat sources in a vertically sheared ambient atmospheric flow are examined via simulations of a three-dimensional, compressible numerical model. Simple circular heat sources and asymmetric elliptical ring…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frandsen
Evaluating the effects of prescribed fire and wildland fire requires a greater understanding of the fire behavior of organic soils. Determining the ignition limit of organic soils over a wide geographical area is the subject of this study. Side ignitions were attempted with an…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Smoldering ground fires spread slowly (about 3 cm h-1) and can raise mineral soil temperatures above 300 degrees C for several hours with peak temperatures near 600 degrees C, resulting in decomposition of organic material and the death of soil organisms. Smoldering ground fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frandsen
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given level of treatment that has the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Duffy, Epting, Graham, Rupp, McGuire
Wildland fire is the dominant large-scale disturbance mechanism in the Alaskan boreal forest, and it strongly influences forest structure and function. In this research, patterns of burn severity in the Alaskan boreal forest are characterised using 24 fires. First, the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS