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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Butler, Forthofer
How close is too close when fighting a forest fire? Wind, temperature and "real" heat energy are all factors that should be considered when determining the safety zone.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Landscapes are strongly shaped by the degree of interaction between pattern and process. This paper examines how ecological memory, the degree to which an ecological process is shaped by its past modifications of a landscape, influences landscape dynamics. I use a simulation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Machlis, Kaplan, Tuler, Bagby, McKendry
A report to NWCG based on a review of existing social science literature, an analysis of social science needs, and a needs assessment based on input from 11 workshops held around the country. The report offers a research agenda that describes what research is needed, why it is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Arbaugh, Kimberlin, Omi, Ottmar, Rideout, Snell, Wiitala
The project objectives are as follows: Phase I Model Development 1. Prepare a prototype FETM Version 4.0, incorporating any required revisions to the wildfire size and fire distribution algorithms. The prototype model would be used in the field test of candidate vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA direction.
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
This project will culminate in a user-friendly value at risk (VAR) decision support system (DSS) for fire managers and planners. By assimilating and analyzing the available literature on fire effects as they relate to VARs, such information will be catalogued into a relational…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Hull, Johnson, McKinney, Scott
In response to the 2002 fire season's fatal aircraft accidents, the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly established an independent, five-member Blue Ribbon Commission (the panel - Appendix A) to identify essential information for planning a safe…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kayll
Cambium heated with a hot air flow survived 60 degrees C exposures up to 4 minutes, and 65 degrees C for less than 2 minutes. Tetrazolium chloride was shown to be a suitable viability test stain for several resinous and non-resinous species. Techniques and results are discussed.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoshikawa, Bolton, Romanovsky, Fukuda, Hinzman
The impact to the permafrost during and after wildfire was studied using 11 boreal forest fire sites including two controlled burns. Heat transfer by conduction to the permafrost was not significant during fire. Immediately following fire, ground thermal conductivity may…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Vogt, Fried
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vedrova, Shugalei, Stakanov
We evaluated the balance of production and decomposition in natural ecosystems of Pinus sylvestris, Larix sibirica and Betula pendula in the southern boreal forests of central Siberia, using the Yenisei transect. We also investigated whether anthropogenic disturbances (logging,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wikars
Several boreal wood-living insect species breed exclusively in recently burned forest. However, the reason for this dependence on fire is largely unknown. Here wood-living insects and other arthropods were sampled from burned and unburned logs of birch (Betula pendula) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stone, Dutton, Harris, Longenecker
Predictions of global circulation models (GCMs) that account for increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere show that warming in the Arctic will be amplified in response to the melting of sea ice and snow cover. There is now conclusive evidence…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Riddering, Brown, Queen, Hao
A MODIS-like daytime active fire detection model was tested in Alaskan biomes using NOAA-AVHRR infrared data, and its performance was assessed across a range of channel 3 (3.8 micro m) brightness temperature and contextual standard deviation thresholds. Absolute thresholding of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This paper reviews and synthesizes literature on fire as a disturbance factor in boreal forests. Spatial and temporal variation in the biophysical environment, specifically, vegetative structure, terrain, and weather lead to variations in fire behaviour. Changes in slope, aspect…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin, Duffy
In the boreal biome, fire is the major disturbance agent affecting ecosystem change, and fire dynamics will likely change in response to climatic warming. We modified a spatially explicit model of Alaskan subarctic treeline dynamics (ALFRESCO) to simulate boreal vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Chapin, Starfield
The response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate warming has important implications to potential feedbacks to climate. The interactions between topography, climate, and disturbance (particularly wildfires) could alter recruitment patterns to reduce or offset current predicted…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Net CO2 exchange rates in three different successional stages of the 'Dark Taiga' of central Siberia
The net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of successional stages of the Abies-dominated dark taiga was measured in central Siberia (61 degrees N 90 degrees E) during the growing season of the year 2000 using the eddy covariance technique. Measurements started before snow melt and canopy…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees, Juday
Natural fires and logging are two of the main disturbances affecting upland boreal forest in Alaska. The objectives of this study were to determine whether logged sites differ from burned sites in (1) overall plant species richness, (2) successional trajectories, and (3) species…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Purdy, Macdonald, Dale
Early establishment of white spruce (Picea glauca) in mixedwood boreal forest stands following fire was examined in Alberta, Canada at several times-since-fire (1-, 2-, 4-, 6-, 14-years). Abiotic and biotic conditions in the stands were assessed at two scales, tree plot (5 m x 5…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Current research on severe fire interactions with the atmosphere focuses largely on examination of correlations between fire growth and various atmospheric properties, and on the development of indices based on these correlations. The author proposes that progress requires…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
Post-fire regeneration of Picea glauca on boreal mixedwood sites appears to be highly variable over time. Our objectives were to determine whether ground-level ring counts underestimate root collar age of understorey P. glauca and whether aging errors increase with stand age.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES