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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vavrek, Fetcher, McGraw, Shaver, Chapin, Bovard
Tundra ecosystems appear to recover slowly from disturbance, but little long-term data concerning plant diversity has been available. We examined recovery of tundra vegetation in Alaska, U.S.A., 23 yr after fire and 24 yr after bulldozing. Primary productivity, depth of thaw,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey
The Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest is situated in northwestern Quebec in the Boreal Shield Ecozone. Managed by two constituents of the Universite du Quebec, in collaboration with two forest companies, Norbord and Tembec, the Lake Duparquet Forest has a strong…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herr, Duchesne, Reader
The effects of soil organic matter, soil moisture, shading and ash on white pine (Pinus strobus L.) emergence were investigated using soil monoliths in greenhouse experiments. White pine seedling emergence increased with soil organic matter removal, and levelled with the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root density, mass, fibre content,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fortin, Payette, Marineau
Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity are mainly governed by natural disturbances such as fire. Because boreal forest communities are typically species-poor and composed predominantly of wide-ranging circumboreal species, all measurements of biodiversity using the most common…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clearwater, Nifinluri, van Gardingen
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Belval
Across the globe, aircraft that apply water and suppressants during active wildfires play key roles in wildfire suppression, and these suppression resources can be highly effective. In the United States, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) aircraft account for a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bouvet, Link, Fink
A new approach to characterize airborne firebrands during Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires is detailed. The approach merges the following two imaging techniques in a single field-deployable diagnostic tool: (1) 3D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (3D-PTV), for time-resolved…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Eskelson, Monleon
Propensity score matching (PSM) and distance-adjusted PSM enable estimation of causal effects from observational data by selecting controls that are similar to treated observations in terms of environmental covariates and spatial locations. Quantifying effects of natural…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day
Fire can drive selection for plant traits or strategies that enable populations to survive or recover from this disturbance. Two main persistence strategies are used by plants to regenerate after fire: resprouting, where individuals are termed ‘resprouters’; or from seed, known…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Jardine, Archibald, Forrestel, Lehmann, Thomas, Osborne
Plant populations persist under recurrent fire via resprouting from surviving tissues (resprouters) or seedling recruitment (seeders). Woody species are inherently slow maturing, meaning that seeders are confined to infrequent fire regimes. However, for grasses, which mature…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
De'Arman, York
Changing environmental and social forestry contexts present new challenges for forestry graduates. In contrast with previous generations, forestry students today must be prepared to handle the impacts of climate change and increasing fire severity and frequency, as well as…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ciprián-Sánchez, Ochoa-Ruiz, Rossi, Morandini
Wildfires stand as one of the most relevant natural disasters worldwide, particularly more so due to the effect of climate change and its impact on various societal and environmental levels. In this regard, a significant amount of research has been done in order to address this…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moumgiakmas, Samatas, Papakostas
Fire hazard is a condition that has potentially catastrophic consequences. Artificial intelligence, through Computer Vision, in combination with UAVs has assisted dramatically to identify this risk and avoid it in a timely manner. This work is a literature review on UAVs using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sahila, Zekri, Clerc, Kaiss, Sahraoui
The dynamics of a spreading wildfire is modeled by using a variant of the Small World Network stochastic model (Zekri et al., 2005). The temporal evolution of the fire front width and its pattern’s fractal dimension exhibits an anomalous relaxation process before the extinction…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sarkar, Yan, Erol, Raptis, Homaifar
In recent years Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have progressively been utilized for wildfire management, and are especially in prevalent in forest fire monitoring missions. To ensure the fast detection and accurate area estimation of forest fires, a two-step search and survey…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, McCaffrey, Leone, Vazquez-Varela, Depietri, Buergelt, Lovreglio
Despite the increasing challenges wildfires are posing around the globe, and the flourishing production of high-quality wildfire scientific knowledge, the ability of fire science to impact knowledge on the ground, for people, society, economy, and the environment, in a way that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Gunn, Burger
The world is urbanizing most rapidly in tropical to sub-temperate areas and in coastal zones. Climate change along with other global change forcings will diminish the opportunities for sustainability of cities, especially in coastal areas in low-income countries. Climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Huber-Stearns, Cheng, Jacobson
A key challenge in the United States is how to manage wildfire risk across boundaries and scales, as roles, responsibilities, and ability to act are distributed among actors in ways that do not always incentivize collective action. In this review paper, we provide several…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maezumi, Gosling, Kirschner, Chevalier, Cornelissen, Heinecke, McMichael
Charcoal identification and the quantification of its abundance in sedimentary archives is commonly used to reconstruct fire frequency and the amounts of biomass burning. There are, however, limited metrics to measure past fire temperature and fuel type (i.e. the types of plants…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sun, Zhang, Ding, Huang
The fire whirl is an intensification of combustion, but its pressure effect is still unknown. In this study, small-scale fire whirls were generated by square enclosures with slits inside a large low-pressure chamber. As the pressure decreases, the fire whirl becomes bluer, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campos, Abrantes
Forest fires are a well-known source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), playing an important role on their formation and redistribution across the terrestrial and aquatic compartments. Fire-induced inputs of PAHs to the environment are of major concern due to their…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Shirey, Ponisio, Gelhaus
Climate change in concert with fire suppression is increasing the size, severity and frequency of fires globally. At the same time, insects, an exceptionally biodiverse group that provide essential ecosystem services such as pollination and decomposition, are declining…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES