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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Ashmun
A considerable investment in post-fire research over the past decade has improved our understanding of wildfire effects on soil, hydrology, erosion and erosion-mitigation treatment effectiveness. Using this new knowledge, we have developed several tools to assist land managers…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Zhang
Most FVS insect and disease model extensions are a blend of process modeling and empirical relationships. Because of the process elements, insect and disease models can present unexpected results when simulated conditions are unlike those tested when the model was developed.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCarter
The Lanscape Management System (LMS) is an evolving Microsoft Windows™ application that integrates forest inventory information, spatial information, growth models, computer visualization software, and analysis software into a landscape-level analysis tool. This paper presents…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGaughey
Stand structure, often quantified using the percent canopy cover associated with various structural layers, is an important characteristic used when modeling ecosystem diversity and function. A model is presented, PERCOVE, that classifies individual trees in a stand into…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton
Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) multipliers permit the user to tailor model performances to simulate almost any management scenario. Unfortunately, the intuitively logical choice of multipliers is not always the corrent choice and could result in biologically impossible…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berry, Buckley, McGarigal
The ARC/INFO system is a powerful GIS that is widely used by natural resource organizations. FRAGSTATS is an extensively used program that derives a comprehensive set of useful landscape metrics. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest growth and yield model used…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snowdon
The British Columbia Forest Service has recently built a suite of Windows based tools to enable its diverse client base to conduct FVS runs in a used-friendly computer environment. The tools are (1) DATAprog -- a generic treelist builder/data translator; (2) SIMprog -- a single…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crookston
Suppose -- a graphical user interface for the Forest Vegetation Simulator -- simplifies the task of simulating the changes in forest vegetation for a long timespan and a landscape spatial scope. This introduction of Version 1 of Suppose presents the system's goals and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
The author looks back on two decades of personal experience and impressions of Prognosis history and reviews U.S. Forest Service involvement. He pays homage to the many researchers and land managers whose accumulated work over this time has brought us to today's Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This provided a forum to learn…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Connot, Peterson, Martin
The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodically to account for disturbances, growth, and natural succession. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Page, Hurtt, Thomson, Bond-Lamberty, Patel, Wise, Calvin, Kyle, Clarke, Edmonds, Janetos
The present and future concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide depends on both anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of carbon. Most proposed climate mitigation strategies rely on a progressive transition to carbon-efficient technologies to reduce industrial emissions…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodrick, Achtemeier, Larkin, Liu, Strand
Among the key issues in smoke management is predicting the magnitude and location of smoke effects. These vary in severity from hazardous (acute health conditions and drastic visibility impairment to transportation) to nuisance (regional haze), and occur across a range of scales…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finney, Cohen, McAllister, Jolly
We explore the basis of understanding wildland fire behaviour with the intention of stimulating curiosity and promoting fundamental investigations of fire spread problems that persist even in the presence of tremendous modelling advances. Internationally, many fire models have…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Whitman, Rapaport, Sherren
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the region where development meets and intermingles with wildlands. The WUI has an elevated fire risk due to the proximity of development and residents to wildlands with natural wildfire regimes. Existing methods of delineating WUI are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Ma, Li
The evaluation of area-specific risks for large fires is of great policy relevance to fire management and prevention. When analyzing data for the burned areas of large fires in Canada, we found that there are dramatic patterns that cannot be adequately modelled by traditional…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS