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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stephan, Miller, Dickinson
Herbaceous plants and shrubs have received little attention in terms of fire effects modeling despite their critical role in ecosystem integrity and resilience after wildfires and prescribed burns. In this paper, we summarize current knowledge of direct effects of fire on herb…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kavanagh, Dickinson, Bova
Current operational methods for predicting tree mortality from fire injury are regression-based models that only indirectly consider underlying causes and, thus, have limited generality. A better understanding of the physiological consequences of tree heating and injury are…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Dickinson
Wildland fire managers are often required to predict tree injury and mortality when planning a prescribed burn or when considering wildfire management options; and, currently, statistical models based on post-fire observations are the only tools available for this purpose.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman, Frank, Mooney
Heating soil during intense wildland fires or slash-pile burns can alter the soil irreversibly, resulting in many significant long-term biological, chemical, physical, and hydrological effects. To better understand these long-term effects, it is necessary to improve modeling…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Ryan
As prescribed fire use increases and the options for responding to wildfires continue to expand beyond suppression, the need for improving fire effects prediction capabilities becomes increasingly apparent. The papers in this Fire Ecology special issue describe recent advances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Opperman
This table was assembled based on contributions and discussions among many fire behavior researchers, programmers, and practitioners. The models compared include spot distance nomograms, BehavePlus v.5.0.2, FlamMap 3.0, STFB: Short Term Fire Behavior (WFDSS version of FlamMap 5.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurth, Parkinson, Pence, Opperman, Barborinas, Taber, Burgard, McCrea, Sorbel, Wilmore, Fay
Calibrations on FSPro analyses that started May 27 resulted in rules and guidelines that appeared to be working on numerous fires across the state and are now the basis for initial analyses. These rules/guidelines appear to be working for the pre-green up conditions we were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Cohen, Grenfell, Yedinak
Many fuel beds, especially live vegetation canopies (conifer forests, shrub fields, bunch-grasses) contain gaps between vegetation clumps. Fires burning in these fuel types often display thresholds for spread that are observed to depend on environmental factors like wind, slope…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Linn, Sieg, Koo, Winterkamp
To provide critical spotting information to fire managers and the developers of operational wildfire behavior models, a physics-based spotting model has been developed and used to characterize potential spotting hazard in complex wildland urban interface (WUI) fires. The spread…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To help reduce the chance for high-severity fires in the western United States, thinning of the forest understory, midstory and overstory has become a necessity. In some cases, the resulting surface fuels are piled by hand and burned. As this two-part treatment method becomes…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vandendriesche
The 'partial' establishment model that is available for most Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) geographic variants does not provide an estimate of natural regeneration. Users are responsible for supplying this key aspect of stand development. The process presented for estimating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vandendriesche
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a prominent growth and yield model used for forecasting stand dynamics. However, users need to be aware of model behavior regarding stocking density, tree senescence, and understory recruitment; otherwise over long projections, FVS tends…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Rehfeldt, Dixon, Weiskittel
To simulate stand-level impacts of climate change, predictors in the widely used Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) were adjusted to account for expected climate effects. This was accomplished by: (1) adding functions that link mortality and regeneration of species to climate…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ko, Cheong, Nam
This paper proposes a new vision-based early fire detection method for real-world application. First, candidate fire regions are detected using a background and color model of fire. Probabilistic models of the fire are then generated based on the fact that fire pixel values in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barovik, Taranchuk
Adapted mathematical model for simulation of running crown forest fire propagation is considered. Simplifying assumptions, equations of the model, initial and boundary conditions, finite difference approximations are introduced. The results of computer modelling and the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woolford, Cao, Dean, Martell
The potential impact of climate change on forest fire risk is of significant concern. Postulated climate change effects on wildfires include increasing annual trends in ignitions and a lengthening of the fire season. We propose to use logistic generalized additive mixed models…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
O'Laughlin
Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can damage ecosystems and adversely…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Song, Chou, Williams, Hom
Three-dimensional (3D) visualization is a useful tool that depicts virtual forest landscapes on computer. Previous studies in visualization have required high end computer hardware and specialized technical skills. A virtual forest landscape can be used to show different effects…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bettinger
The introduction or modification of land use regulations and sustainability initiatives over the last few decades has arguably increased the complexity of forest planning processes. Given the planning goals of a land management organization, both spatial and temporal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zinck, Johst, Grimm
How simple can a model be that still captures essential aspects of wildfire ecosystems at large spatial and temporal scales? The Drossel–Schwabl model (DSM) is a metaphorical forest-fire model developed to reproduce only one pattern of real systems: a frequency distribution of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ursino, Rulli
In many arid zones around the word, the vegetation spontaneously forms regular patterns to optimize the use of the scarce water resources. The patterns act as early warning signal that fragile ecosystems may suddenly undergo irreversible shifts, thus, interpreting the structural…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bevins
This poster describes major features of BehavePlus version 5.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews
The fire characteristics chart is a graphical method of presenting U.S. National Fire Danger Rating indices or primary surface or crown fire behavior characteristics. A desktop computer application has been developed to produce fire characteristics charts in a format suitable…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is the successor to BEHAVE, which was first used in the field in 1984. It is public domain software, available for free use on personal computers. Information on user communities and fire management applications can be useful in designing next…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES