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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kalamees, Püssa, Tamm, Zobel
Although boreal forests are biomes which are characterized by periodical forest wildfires, very little is known about adaptations to fire in forest herbs. We investigated whether a putatively fire-dependent herbaceous species-Pulsatilla patens-demonstrated adaptive responses to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Waddington, Thompson, Wotton, Quinton, Flannigan, Benscoter, Baisley, Turetsky
The Duff Moisture Code (DMC) and Drought Code (DC) components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System are used by fire managers to assess the vulnerability of organic soils to ignition and depth of burn despite being developed for upland soils. Given the need to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown, Johnstone
Widespread climate change is expected to lead to altered patterns of disturbance, thereby driving future ecosystem change. This interaction, which is often poorly recognized or understood, may be particularly important in the sub-arctic due to rapid climate change and frequent…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gralewicz, Nelson, Wulder
Wildfires are expected to increase as a result of climate change. In order to effectively manage and monitor climate-induced changes in Canadian forests, a national-scale understanding of factors influencing wildfire susceptibility is necessary. The goal of this study is to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Contreras, Parsons, Chung
Land managers have been using fire behavior and simulation models to assist in several fire management tasks. These widely-used models use average attributes to make stand-level predictions without considering spatial variability of fuels within a stand. Consequently, as the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Lutz, Key, Kane, van Wagtendonk
For decades, wildfire studies have utilized fire occurrence as the primary data source for investigating the causes and effects of wildfire on the landscape. Fire occurrence data fall primarily into two categories: ignition points and perimeter polygons which are used to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moles, Flores-Moreno, Bonser, Warton, Helm, Warman, Eldridge, Jurado, Hemmings, Reich, Cavender-Bares, Seabloom, Mayfield, Sheil, Djietror, Peri, Enrico, Cabido, Setterfield, Lehmann, Thomson
1. We provide a brief overview of progress in our understanding of introduced plant species. 2. Three main conclusions emerge from our review: (i) Many lines of research, including the search for traits that make species good invaders, or that make ecosystems susceptible to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Yokel, Bret-Harte, Kolden, Mack
The 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire was an order of magnitude larger than the average fire size in the historic record for northern Alaska and indices of severity were substantially higher than for other recorded tundra burns. An interdisciplinary team assessed fire effects including…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Olsen
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
This paper is the first of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crowder, Northfield, Gomulkiewicz, Snyder
Healthy ecosystems include many species (high richness) with similar abundances (high evenness). Thus, both aspects of biodiversity are worthy of conservation. Simultaneously conserving richness and evenness might be difficult, however, if, for example, the restoration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bahn, Wright, MontBlanc, Thode
Fire and fuels management have become increasingly challenging in the last three decades due to climate change, invasive species, urbanization and development, increased land use, and the effects of these factors on fire size and frequency (Westerling et al. 2007; D'Antonio and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Alexander, Cruz
A mathematical model is presented for predicting the maximum potential spot fire distance from an active crown fire. This distance can be estimated from the height of the flame above the canopy top, wind speed at canopy-top height and final firebrand size (i.e. its residual size…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sikkink, Keane
Fire severity classifications have been used extensively in fire management over the last 30 years to describe specific environmental or ecological impacts of fire on fuels, vegetation, wildlife, and soils in recently burned areas. New fire severity classifications need to be…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Rupp, Olson, Duffy
Many boreal forests grow in regions where climate is now warming rapidly. Changes in these vast, cold forests have the potential to affect global climate because they store huge amounts of carbon and because the relative abundances of their different tree species influence how…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen
In wildland fires where water is used as the primary extinguishing agent, one of the issues of wildfire suppression is estimating how much water is required to extinguish a certain section of the fire. In order to use easily distinguished and available indicators, the flame…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jakes, McCaffrey
Wildland fires burn millions of acres annually, damaging human and animal communities, endangering the lives of firefighters, and costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and suppression expenses. However, wildland fires are also important to maintaining and restoring…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito, Burns, Cheng, Nelson, Sturtevant, Williams
A community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) is a means of bringing local solutions to wildland fire management. In developing and implementing CWPPs, communities assume a leadership role in reducing wildfi re risk on federal and nonfederal land. In this publication, we identify…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder, Stockmann, Morris
The US Forest Service used contracted helicopter services as part of its wildfire suppression strategy. An optimization decision-modeling system was developed to assist in the contract selection process. Three contract award selection criteria were considered: cost per pound of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gustafson
In the Foreword of this volume is the statement that 'landscape ecology is the 'glue' that holds ecosystem theory together and nowhere is that more evident than in the study of wildland fire ecology.' The Landscape Ecology of Fire summarizes how landscape ecology has contributed…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Evans, Sturtevant, Jakes
Many environmental education programs in the United States educate youth about the prevention of wildfire and its role in ecosystems.We reviewed 50 wildfire education programs for youth (WEY) in the U.S. through an Internet search and interviews with program providers. We…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sipila, Auerkari, Holmstrom, Itkonen, Aaltonen
Self-heating of coal depends partly on intrinsic, coal-related factors. This article aims to discuss the Smith-Glasser index as a potential indicator of the self-heating propensity of a large set of bituminous coals with similar heating value but different origins. For this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ricciardi, Antonucci, Giordano, Zarrelli
The thermal degradation and the fire behavior of a polyester resin containing phosphate-based fire-retardant additives and its corresponding glass fiber composites were investigated. An unsaturated commercial polyester resin was modified by the addition of three phosphate-based…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES