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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Shanks Rodrigues
Wildland firefighting in Alaska is changing due to the impact of climate change on the boreal forest. Changes to the wildland firefighting regime could have significant impacts on community participation during fall subsistence hunting and, consequentially, food security levels…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kim, Warren, Krantz, King, Jaskot, Preston, George, Hays, Landis, Higuchi, DeMarini, Gilmour
Background: The increasing size and frequency of wildland fires are leading to greater potential for cardiopulmonary disease and cancer in exposed populations; however, little is known about how the types of fuel and combustion phases affect these adverse outcomes. Objectives:…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'As the only agency managing lands in all 50 states and every U.S. territory, the FWS [Fish and Wildlife Service] manages fire on the greatest number of units with the smallest fire budget of any federal agency.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Huxman, Collins
Shrub encroachment in arid and semiarid rangelands, a worldwide phenomenon, results in a heterogeneous landscape characterized by a mosaic of nutrient-depleted barren soil bordered by nutrient-enriched shrubby areas known as ''fertile islands.'' Even though shrub encroachment is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kemball, Westwood, Wang
Mineral soils exposed by fire are often covered by a layer of ash due to complete consumption of the forest floor (litter and duff). To assess the possible effects of ash on seed germination and viability of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.)…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramírez Trejo, Perez-Garcia, Perez-Salicrup, Orozco-Segovia
Pteridium caudatum is a fern that frequently invades burnt areas in the Yucatan Peninsula and other neotropical sites. While post-fire regeneration of this fern apparently occurs mainly by vegetative means, little is known about the role of its spores in post-fire regeneration…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otto, Garcia-del-Rey, Munoz, Fernandez-Palacios
The Canarian pine (Pinus canariensis) exhibits a striking combination of high adult resistance to fire and intermediate serotiny. Hence, the study of its post-fire regeneration can support valuable new insights about functional adaptations to fire. Here, we analyse the first-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reyes, Kneeshaw, De Grandpré, Leduc
Questions: How does woody vegetation abundance and diversity differ after natural disturbances causing different levels of mortality?Location: Abies balsamea-Betula papyrifera boreal mixed-wood stands of southeast Quebec, Canada.Methods: Woody vegetation abundance and diversity…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Ali, Hély
With the emergence of a new forest management paradigm based on the emulation of natural disturbance regimes, interest in fire-related studies has increased in the boreal forest management community. A key issue in this regard is the improvement of our understanding of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Ager, Gilbertson-Day, Scott, Finney, Schrader-Patton, Quigley, Strittholt, Kaiden
This report was designed to meet three broad goals: (1) evaluate wildfire hazard on Federal lands; (2) develop information useful in prioritizing where fuels treatments and mitigation measures might be proposed to address significant fire hazard and risk; and (3) develop risk-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Eitel, Hudak
Recent studies in the Western United States have supported climate scenarios that predict a higher occurrence of large and severe wildfires. Knowledge of the severity is important to infer long-term biogeochemical, ecological, and societal impacts, but understanding the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lowell, Rapp, Haynes, Cray
We update and expand the 1992 survey of research findings by Lowell and colleagues, providing an ecological context for the findings, using a more reader-friendly format, and including extensive citations so readers can get indepth information on particular topics. Our intent is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Burke, Kramer, Radeloff, Schilke, Selles, Toczydlowski, Wardropper, Barrow, Chandler, Geleynse, L'roe, Laushman, Schomaker
The ecological literature offers many conflicting recommendations for how managers should respond to ecosystem change and novelty. We propose a framework in which forest managers may achieve desired forest characteristics by combining strategies for (1) restoring historical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Gaff
Tick population control technologies have been studied for several decades but no method is successful in all situations. The success of each technology depends on tick species identity and abundance, host species identity and abundance, phenology of both ticks and hosts,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Fernandez-Anez, Smith, Rein
Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale accumulation of smoke at low altitudes in the atmosphere. It decreases air quality, disrupts…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arora, Melton
The terrestrial biosphere currently absorbs about 30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. This carbon uptake over land results primarily from vegetation’s response to increasing atmospheric CO2 but other factors also play a role. Here we show that since the 1930s increasing…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Zhang, Kondragunta, Csiszar
Satellite‐based active fire data are a viable tool to understand the role of global fires in the biosphere and atmosphere. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on Aqua and Terra satellites are nearing the end of their lives. The Visible Infrared…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dupéy, Smith
Social science research from a variety of disciplines has generated a collective understanding of how individuals prepare for, and respond to, the risks associated with prescribed burning and wildfire. We provide a systematic compilation, review, and quantification of dominant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Bladon, Miller, Parisien, Mathieu, Flannigan
The large mediatic coverage of recent massive wildfires across the world has emphasized the vulnerability of freshwater resources. The extensive hydrogeomorphic effects from a wildfire can impair the ability of watersheds to provide safe drinking water to downstream communities…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia-Oliva, Merino, Fonturbel, Omil, Fernandez, Vega
Forest productivity is limited by soil P availability in several forest ecosystems worldwide. Most of the soil available P is probably produced by the mineralization of organic forms of P when these forms dominate in the soil. Severe wildfires lead to loss of soil organic…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: TTRS