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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Robichaud, Ashmun
A considerable investment in post-fire research over the past decade has improved our understanding of wildfire effects on soil, hydrology, erosion and erosion-mitigation treatment effectiveness. Using this new knowledge, we have developed several tools to assist land managers…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hull
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ribe
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chipman, Hu
Novel fire regimes are expected in many boreal regions, and it is unclear how biogeochemical cycles will respond. We leverage fire and vegetation records from a highly flammable ecoregion in Alaska and present new lake-sediment analyses to examine biogeochemical responses to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Ochoa
From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koivula, Cobb, Dechene, Jacobs, Spence
Forest fires are among the most important natural disturbances in the boreal region, but fire-initiated succession is increasingly often interrupted by salvage logging, i.e., post-fire removal of burned trees. Unfortunately, very little is known about the ecological effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jordan, Ichoku, Hoff
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shapcott, Rakotoarinivo, Smith, Lysakova, Fay, Dransfield
Madagascar has a highly distinctive flora and is one of the world biodiversity hot spots. There are more than 170 species of palms, the majority of which are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered endemics. Palms are utilized for many human uses, many of which lead to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Phua, Tsuyuki, Lee, Sasakawa
Remote sensing plays an important role in providing an estimate of burned areas for fire management. However, detecting burned areas in the tropics is a difficult task due to the heterogeneous landscape and rapidly changing land cover. The Klias Peninsula contains the largest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haszard, Clark
Reasons for apparent declines in populations of white-winged scoters (Melanitta fusca) in the northern boreal forest are not well understood, but some evidence suggests factors associated with the breeding grounds may be responsible. Climate warming or increased forest fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Cumming
Quantitative analysis of variations in morphological types of charcoal were undertaken in sediment cores from three lakes on the Interior Plateau (BC, Canada) over the period AD 1919-2000. Seven distinct morphological types of charcoal were identified based on particle shape and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Choi, Fernando
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Austin, Keough, Pyle
Grazing and burning are commonly applied practices that can impact the diversity and biomass of wetland plant communities. We evaluated the vegetative response of wetlands and adjacent upland grasslands to four treatment regimes (continuous idle, fall prescribed burning followed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gottfried, Neary, Ffolliott
Many traditional land management activities and supporting research have concentrated on one or two resources, with limited evaluations of interactions among other potential values. An ecosystem approach to land management requires an evaluation of the blend of physical and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Pellerin
In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands (bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and recent fire-free intervals (time interval between two consecutive fires) were compared using…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS