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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Freeborn, Wooster, Hao, Ryan, Nordgren, Baker, Ichoku
Forty-four small-scale experimental fires were conducted in a combustion chamber to examine the relationship between biomass consumption, smoke production, convective energy release, and middle infrared (MIR) measurements of fire radiative energy (FRE). Fuel bed weights, trace…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Ottmar, French, Hoy, Kane
We evaluated the utility of the composite burn index (CBI) for estimating fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests by comparing data from 81 plots located in 2004 and 2005 fire events. We collected data to estimate the CBI and quantify crown damage, percent of trees…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Allen
Shared fire-survival and fire-persistence traits are found in taxonomically unrelated plant species that commonly grow in fire-prone ecosystems. Such traits include resprouting, after fire has killed the above-ground biomass, and postfire seed release after the death of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Recovery of the vegetation following the A-185 Fire, which burned in 1990 in the east central portion of the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, was monitored intermittently on 8 transects (TS) for 10 years beginning in 1991. The study areas (Black Spruce/Lichen Woodland, TS 1 and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gabbert
Put on the conference as planned, October 23-25, 2007, at Fort Collins, CO. At the conference there were 105 oral presentations from 112 speakers, 24 posters, and 11 exhibitors.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renschler, Elliot
This report covers the development and application of GeoWEPP for cumulative watershed effects from June, 2006 until May, 2008. During this period, development and application of a complementary JFSP project (04-04-1-12) which officially ended in March, 2007, was also occurring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seesholtz
Since its inception in 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has funded over 400 projects. The Joint Fire Science Program has long recognized that the investments made in wildland fire science need to be accompanied by an emphasis on science interpretation and delivery.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolka, Wickman, Nater, Gabriel, Woodruff, Cannon, Gebhardt, Butcher, Witt
Mercury (HG) is of great concern in the environment because it biomagnifies up the food chain in aquatic ecosystems (EPA, 2002; EPA, 2000). Mercury is of special concern to residents of Minnesota and the Great Lakes region as evidenced by the advisories on fish consumption…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Giglio, Wooster, Remer
Remote sensing is the most practical means of measuring energy release from large open-air biomass burning. Satellite measurement of fire radiative energy (FRE) release rate or power (FRP) enables distinction between fires of different strengths. Based on a 1-km resolution fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roy, Boschetti, Justice, Ju
The results of the first consecutive 12 months of the NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) global burned area product are presented. Total annual and monthly area burned statistics and missing data statistics are reported at global and continental scale and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Jones, Hyde
After the containment of large wildland fires, major onsite and downstream effects including lost soil productivity, watershed response, increased vulnerability to invasive weeds, and downstream sedimentation can cause threats to human life and property. Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alo, Wang
A number of previous modeling studies have assessed the implications of projected CO2-induced climate change for future terrestrial ecosystems. However, although current understanding of possible long-term response of vegetation to elevated CO2 and CO2-induced climate change in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Sorbel
Burn severity strongly influences post-fire vegetation succession, soil erosion, and wildlife populations in the fire-adapted boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Therefore, satellite-derived maps of burn severity in the remote Alaskan landscape are a useful tool in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Achard, Eva, Mollicone, Beuchle
Over the last few years anomalies in temperature and precipitation in northern Russia have been regarded as manifestations of climate change. During the same period exceptional forest fire seasons have been reported, prompting many authors to suggest that these in turn are due…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lord
Over 1 million hectares burn annually across interior Alaska's boreal forest, altering the composition and distribution of vegetation communities that provide critical winter habitat for Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas). Within a burn, fire severity (the amount of residual soil…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Miller
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) has provided a scientific basis for fire and land management since 1986. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Wildfire Coordinating Group sponsored development of…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Foltz, Robichaud
Recent expansions in post-fire rehabilitation research have increased the knowledge base and opened the door to more informed decision making and successful post-fire rehabilitation efforts. Although there are many tools which have been developed to estimate peak flows and road…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Cronan, Huffman
This JFSP-funded project assessed the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in the black spruce forest type of interior Alaska. Forest canopy and substrate data were collected from sites representing a time sequence of stand age ranging from two to 227 years. These…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Abt, Huggett, Holmes
Book's description: This book provides a unique, state-of-the-art review of both traditional and emerging themes in the economics of natural forest disturbances. Although natural disturbances such as wildfire, hurricanes and pests have long been recognized as important factors…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review of information on relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants can assist fire managers and other land managers concerned with prevention, detection, and eradication or control of nonnative invasive plants. The 16 chapters in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Miller
This project delivers up-to-date, science-based information about species nominated by wildland managers for revision in or addition to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). FEIS now provides 1,081 literature reviews covering 1,139 taxa. This JFSP task has supported the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Villano
As the climate changes, Alaska's boreal forest faces the simultaneous threats of rising invasive plant abundances and increasing area burned by wildfire. Highly flammable and widespread black spruce forest represents a boreal habitat that may be increasingly susceptible to non-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer, Haight, Prestemon
With expenditures to suppress wildfires in the United States increasing rapidly during the past couple of decades, fire managers, scientists, and policy makers have begun an intense effort to develop alternative approaches to managing wildfire. One alternative is 'fuels…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crawford
Book description: Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS