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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Miller
The interagency-Fire Regime / Condition Class - assessment process (FRCC) represents a contemporary and effective means of estimating the relative degree of difference or "departure" a subject landscape condition is currently in, as compared to the historic or reference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Lusk
This manual targets fire management staff and is designed to summarize the links between fire management and invasive plant invasions and management. It also provides practical guidelines that fire managers should consider with respect to invasive plants. Minimum recommendations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Joyce, Griffith, Kareiva, Keller, Palmer, Peterson, Scott
This report provides a preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources in the United States. The term 'adaptation' in this document refers to adjustments in human social systems (e.g., management) in response to climate stimuli and their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall
ANNOTATION: This paper describes how most wood bioenergy crop systems in the United States are still in the early stages of development, with a wide variety of approaches under test in different regions of the country. In the United States, dedicated wood biomass cropland is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: There is a substantial global need for development of biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts systems and technologies that can economically and sustainably produce short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Topic areas in these proceedings were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: These case studies show that all aspects of woody biomass removals, from markets to mechanization, are evolving. This report identifies the building blocks for successful biomass projects-including public involvement, partnerships with contractors, and judicious…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
ANNOTATION: Woody biomass-usually logging slash, tops and limbs, or trees that cannot be sold as timber-is the lowest valued material removed from the forest and presents economic and logistical challenges. This report brings together 45 case studies of how biomass is removed…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergman, Zerbe
ANNOTATION: This paper explains and describes the concepts of wood energy on a residential, commercial, and industrial scale in the United States so that the Forest Service can help meet the demands of communities involved in the forest-products industry. In addition,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutto, Conway, Saab, Walters
Bird species that specialize in the use of burned forest conditions can provide insight into the prehistoric fire regimes associated with the forest types that they have occupied over evolutionary time. The nature of their adaptations reflects the specific post-fire conditions…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts
Fire regimes and vegetation structure and composition form a direct feedback loop, where fire regimes shape patterns in the vegetation and vegetation affects fire regime attributes. For decades, researchers focused their attention on the essential relationships between fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
We describe the development of a model system to predict fire behaviour over the full range of potential fire behaviour in the various types of fuel complexes found in exotic pine plantations in relation to environmental conditions. The proposed system integrates a series of sub…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud
Federal land management agencies have spent tens of millions of dollars on post-fire emergency watershed stabilization measures intended to minimize flood runoff, peakflows, onsite erosion, offsite sedimentation, and other hydrologic damage to natural habitats, roads, bridges,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar, Smith, Sutherland
Considerable experimental and theoretical work has been done on general concepts regarding nonnative species and disturbance, but experimental research on the effects of fire on nonnative invasive species is sparse. We begin this chapter by connecting fundamental concepts from…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams, Bradstock
In the last decade, extensive fires have occurred on most continents, affecting a wide range of ecosystems. We convened a Symposium at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in 2006 to address the issue of large fires and their ecological consequences in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar, Munger, Smith
The potential for nonnative, invasive plants to alter an ecosystem depends on species traits, ecosystem characteristics, and the effects of disturbances, including fire. This study identifies gaps in science-based knowledge about the relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wold, Kovalev, Hao
The general concept of an open-path backscatter nephelometer, its design, principles of calibration and the operational use are discussed. The research-grade instrument, which operates at the wavelength 355 nm, will be co-located with a scanning-lidar at measurement sites near…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky, Myers, Waugh, Blankenship
Fire is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, fire can play a role in maintaining or threatening natural habitats and human societies. In any case, we must consider the global context for our actions and the best possible role each nation can play in managing fire for humans and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sutherland
Monitoring, as defined by Elzinga and others (1998), is 'the collection and analysis of repeated observations or measurements to evaluate changes in condition and progress towards meeting a management objective.' Analyses of monitoring data may indicate that a project is meeting…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
This volume synthesizes scientific information about interactions between fire and nonnative invasive plants in wildlands of the United States. If the subject were clear and simple, this volume would be short; obviously, it is not. Relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marlon, Bartlein, Carcaillet, Gavin, Harrison, Higuera, Joos, Power, Prentice
Large, well-documented wildfires have recently generated worldwide attention, and raised concerns about the impacts of humans and climate change on wildfire regimes. However, comparatively little is known about the patterns and driving forces of global fire activity before the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
Fire is a process integral to the functioning of most temperate wildland ecosystems. Lightning-caused and anthropogenic fires have influenced the vegetation of North America profoundly for millennia (Brown and Smith 2000; Pyne 1982b). In some cases, fire has been used to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keane, Agee, Fulé, Keeley, Key, Kitchen, Miller, Schulte
The perception is that today's large fires are an ecological catastrophe because they burn vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological impacts of large fires on both historical and contemporary landscapes. The present paper…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Zimmerman, Akerelrea, O'Keefe
Natural resource managers use a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to the public. We explored the effects of using the Stand Visualization System to visualize and animate predictions from the Forest Vegetation Simulator-Fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rice, Smith
It may be impossible to overstate the complexity of relationships among wildland ecosystems, fires, and nonnative invasives. Strategies for managing these relationships are similarly complex; they require information on local plant phenology, ability to produce various levels of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES