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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Speck, Speck
Wildfires are unplanned conflagrations perceived as a threat by humans. However, fires are essential for the survival of fire-adapted plants. On the one hand, wildfires cause major damage worldwide, burning large areas of forests and landscapes, threatening towns and villages,…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arrogante-Funes, Aguado, Chuvieco
Background: Fire is a natural disturbance that significantly impacts ecosystems and plays a crucial role in the distribution and preservation of biota worldwide. The effects of fires on bird diversity can be both positive, as they can create new habitats, and negative, as they…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ahmadov, James, Pereira, Freitas, Grell
Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vahedifard, Abdollahi, Leshchinsky, Stark, Sadegh, AghaKouchak
The frequency, severity, and spatial extent of destructive wildfires have increased in several regions globally over the past decades. While direct impacts from wildfires are devastating, the hazardous legacy of wildfires affects nearby communities long after the flames have…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanghar, Teuber, Ravindran, Keller, Hernandez, Krauss, Linderholm, Echt, Tuermer-Lee, Juarez, Albertson, Khan, Haczku
Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volkova, Fernández
Fire is an important component of many forest ecosystems, yet climate change is now modifying fire regimes all over the world, driving a need to understand the impact of fires on the physical and biological processes. In 2022, Elsevier launched a Special Collection that spanned…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Qayyum, Jamil, Alsboui, Hijjawi
Background: Understanding the intricacies of wildfire impact across diverse geographical landscapes necessitates a nuanced comprehension of fire dynamics and areas of vulnerability, particularly in regions prone to high wildfire risks. Machine learning (ML) stands as a…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alizadeha, Adamowski, Entekhabi
Land surface-atmosphere coupling and soil moisture memory are shown to combine into a distinct temporal pattern for wildfire incidents across the western United States. We investigate the dynamic interplay of observed soil moisture, vegetation water content, and atmospheric…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Baughman, Jones, Jandt
Our understanding of tundra fire effects in Northern Alaska is limited because fires have been relatively rare. We sampled a 70+ year-old burn visible in a 1948 aerial photograph for vegetation composition and structure, soil attributes, terrain rugosity, and thermokarst pit…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoyland, McHenry, Foster
Geodiversity elements contribute significantly to local and global hydrological, biogeochemical and ecosystem services and as such, fire is a potentially disruptive force with long-term implications. from limiting karstic speleothems formation, to compounding impacts of peat-…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pippin, Nichols
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to 60% with fire. When prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of prescribed fire in protecting and, at…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brulisauer, Bradfield, Maze
Temporal changes in community organization were examined in a 300+ year chronosequence of understorey vegetation data from lodgepole pine forests recovering from fire in central British Columbia. Changes between six age-classes of forest were quantified as shifts in the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (10 000 years BP), but…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintana-Ascencio, Gonzalez-Espinosa, Ramirez-Marcial, Domingues-Vazquez, Martinez-Ico
The traditional milpa agriculture system (slash-burn) of the Lacandon Maya people in eastern Chiapas, Mexico has created and uses a variety of habitat patches including the whole range of seral stages during forest development. This study examines seed bank attributes in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Evenden
From the Conclusions...'Attempts to exclude fire from wildland ecosystems in the Intermountain and Pacific Northwest Regions have had serious ecological impacts on at least 79 of the established and proposed Research Natural Areas. Numerous ecological and operational challenges…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeLong, Tanner
Managing forests for sustainable use requires that both the biological diversity of the forests and a viable forest industry be maintained. A current approach towards maintaining biological diversity is to pattern forest management practices after those of natural disturbance…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch, Martell
Information regarding the productivity and effectiveness of initial attack fire crews is essential to a wide variety of forest fire management activities. This paper provides a selective review of crew productivity research conducted in Australia, Canada, and the United States…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Amin, Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
A survey was conducted of predictive models for heat and mass transport within soils exposed to the heating rates and temperature regimes under wildland fires. Two models trace their ancestry to soil science, and other models for heat and mass transport in porous media come from…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Miller, Johnston, Smith, Simmerman, Brown
Provides information on a computerized fire effects information system. Describes the nature of information available from the system and how to access it with a computer. Includes a basic tutorial on how to navigate the several information retrieval options presented by the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES