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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Haskell
Highlights events and publications from the JFSP fire science exchange network.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Joly
Caribou are one of the most charismatic and enigmatic animals of the high north-and the most important subsistence mammal in Alaska. Today most barren-ground caribou herds in North America are in decline, with some herds down >80% in 30 years prompting Canada to list the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Kielland, Euskirchen, Brinkman, Ruess, Kellie
Fire severity is an important control over regeneration of deciduous species and can influence the overall quality of habitat for herbivores, such as moose (Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)), but the relationships between availability and duration of biomass production and moose…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Eric Miller, BLM Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist, describes the 2017 re-survey of the 2007 mega-fire on the North Slope of Alaska. He shows surprising findings with regard to subterranean ice feature degradation, vegetation changes and recovery, shrubbification, and surface…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Elser, Lewis, Mackey, Chen
The biogeochemical and stoichiometric signature of vegetation fire may influence post-fire ecosystem characteristics and the evolution of plant ‘fire traits’. Phosphorus (P), a potentially limiting nutrient in many fire-prone environments, might be particularly important in this…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Lamont, Paula, Appezzato-da-Glória, Fidelis
Despite long-time awareness of the importance of the location of buds in plant biology, research on belowground bud banks has been scant. Terms such as lignotuber, xylopodium and sobole, all referring to belowground bud-bearing structures, are used inconsistently in the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Baughman, Jones, Iwahana
Can fire accelerate the changes in the arctic that climate is already inducing and could a single fire event trigger a threshold change in arctic vegetation communities, with far-reaching implications? Ten years following a large and severe wildfire in the arctic foothills…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pérez, Chmura, Krause
In 2007, a fire burned over 100 000 ha along the Anaktuvuk River in Alaska, causing widespread ecological disturbance. Despite efforts to understand ecosystem recovery, little is known about higher trophic levels. Here, we present qualitative findings from a preliminary bird…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz, Larson, Swanson
Large, spatially explicit forest plots have the potential to address currently understudied aspects of fire ecology and management, including the validation of physics-based fire behavior models and next-generation fire effects models. Pre-fire forest structures, fire-mediated…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frazier, Coops, Wulder, Hermosilla, White
The disturbance and recovery cycles of Canadian boreal forests result in highly dynamic landscapes, requiring continued monitoring to observe and characterize environmental change over time. Well-established remote sensing methods capture change over forested ecosystems, however…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Celis, Johnstone, McGuire, Genet, Schuur, Rupp, Mack
Increasing wildfire activity in Alaska's boreal forests has led to greater fuel-reduction management. Management has been implemented to reduce wildfire spread, but the ecological impacts of these practices are poorly known. We quantified the effects of hand-thinning and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Ingalsbee, Hanson
Wildfires are a fact of life for westerners. They mark the beginning of the spring season and have been a keystone architect of biodiverse ecosystems for millennia. While wildfires are not eco-catastrophes, they are a health concern, evoke public fear-of-fire exploited by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harley, Baisan, Brown, Falk, Flatley, Grissino-Mayer, Hessl, Heyerdahl, Kaye, Lafon, Margolis, Maxwell, Naito, Platt, Rother, Saladyga, Sherriff, Stachowiak, Stambaugh, Sutherland, Taylor
Dendroecology is the science that dates tree rings to their exact calendar year of formation to study processes that influence forest ecology (e.g., Speer 2010 [1], Amoroso et al., 2017 [2]). Reconstruction of past fire regimes is a core application of dendroecology, linking…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spies, Davis
It is widely recognized that forest restoration needs to be scaled up to landscapes. We describe the findings from the project 'Go big or Go Home?' in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. The goals of the project were to analyze how forest collaboratives and Forest Service managers…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Halofsky, Donato, Franklin, Halofsky, Peterson, Harvey
Building resilience to natural disturbances is a key to managing forests for adaptation to climate change. To date, most climate adaptation guidance has focused on recommendations for frequent‐fire forests, leaving few published guidelines for forests that naturally experience…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES