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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schleeweis, Goward, Huang, Masek, Moisen, Kennedy, Thomas
The history of forest change processes is written into forest age and distribution and affects earth systems at many scales. No one data set has been able to capture the full forest disturbance and land use record through time, so in this study, we combined multiple lines of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Li, Crabtree
Climate is changing worldwide, but Arctic Alaska is warming at a rate almost twice the global average [1]. Changes already observed in Alaskan landscapes include rapidly eroding shorelines, melting ground ice (permafrost), wetland drying, ice wedge degradation, increased shrub…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahrens
Based on data from the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual fire department experience survey, NFPA estimates that during 2007-2011, local fire departments responded to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ganteaume, Camia, Jappiot, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Long-Fournel, Lampin
Knowledge of the causes of forest fires, and of the main driving factors of ignition, is an indispensable step towards effective fire prevention policies. This study analyses the factors driving forest fire ignition in the Mediterranean region including the most common human and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Summer 2012 saw records fall for intensity of drought and number, size, and cost of wildfires in the Central and Western United States, and the climate forecast calls for more of the same in the near and distant future. When wildfire breaks out, emergency responders decide their…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal forest ecosystem. Fires are necessary for maintaining vegetation diversity and provide a diverse habitat for wildlife, but fires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen a recent increase in the frequency of large fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Hawbaker, Bowden, Carpenter, Brooks, Abt, Sutphen, Scranton
Deriving from original work under the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy completed in 2011, this report summarizes the state of knowledge regarding the underlying causes and the role of wildfire prevention efforts on all major categories of wildfires, including…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Randerson, Bonan
Fires in the boreal forests of North America are generally stand-replacing, killing the majority of trees and initiating succession that may last over a century. Functional variation during succession can affect local surface energy budgets and, potentially, regional climate.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dash, Kelly, Higuera, Hu
Although recent climatic warming has markedly increased fire activity in many biomes, this trend is spatially heterogeneous. Understanding the patterns and controls of this heterogeneity is important for anticipating future fire regime shifts at regional scales and for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liu, Goodrick, Stanturf
This study investigates trends in wildfire potential in the continental United States under a changing climate. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is determined by daily maximum temperature and precipitation. The impact of relative…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams
In the modern era, high-impact mega-fires are unprecedented for the suppression costs, property losses, natural resource damages, and loss of life often involved. For a number of years, these extraordinary wildfires have been increasing in number and in severity. They affect…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Terrier, Girardin, Périé, Legendre, Bergeron
There is general consensus that wildfires in boreal forests will increase throughout this century in response to more severe and frequent drought conditions induced by climate change. However, prediction models generally assume that the vegetation component will remain static…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richardson
Cloud-to-Ground (CG) lightning, in particular when it occurs in dry thunderstorms, is a major cause of wildfire initiation each year. A thunderstorm is considered dry when little to no precipitation reaches the ground. There have been several studies that have developed methods…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Padilla, Corti, Chuvieco
MODIS fire hotspots have been widely used to study fire occurrence at a global scale as they provide highly relevant information on fire events, on their spatial and seasonal trends. Nevertheless, they present some difficulties to estimate the actual magnitude of fire activity,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fireoccurrence…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hermanns
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jones
Amplified warming in the Arctic has likely increased the rate of landscape change and disturbances in northern high latitude regions. Remote sensing provides a valuable tool for assessing the spatial and temporal patterns associated with arctic landscape dynamics over annual,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
I examined the hypothesis that traditional social-ecological fire systems around the world include common elements of traditional fire knowledge (TFK). I defined TFK as fire-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices that have been developed and applied on specific landscapes for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hargrove
ForWarn is an online near real-time satellite-based forest monitoring and assessment tool, that detects and tracks potential disturbances in forests across the conterminous U.S. by producing new national forest change products every eight days. ForWarn works by comparing a…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Young
Worldwide fire regimes are expected to shift as a result of climate change. Predicting when, where, and how these fire regime changes will occur requires an understanding of the climatic controls of fire at differing temporal and spatial scales. This research uses past climate-…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Treat, Wisser, Marchenko, Frolking
Boreal and arctic regions are predicted to warm faster and more strongly than temperate latitudes. Peatlands in these regions contain large stocks of soil carbon in frozen soil and these may effect a strong positive feedback on climate change. We modelled the predicted effects…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS