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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The most common misconception of wildfire is that all fire is bad. But there are important benefits that smaller and more frequent fires offer to the environment. Matt Jolly, an ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, talks about the natural and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jahn
Safety rules have long been associated with a rationalist or compliance/violation logic, meaning that workers must comply with rules, and can expect disciplinary action if they violate them. In recent years, scholars have begun to introduce an adaptation safety paradigm,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Cullen, Cobian-Iñiguez, Ramthun, Lenske, Magness, Bolten, Foster, Spruce
Spruce beetle-induced (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) mortality on the Kenai Peninsula has been hypothesized by local ecologists to result in the conversion of forest to grassland and subsequent increased fire danger. This hypothesis stands in contrast to empirical studies in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trucchia, Egorova, Pagnini, Rochoux
Many nonlinear phenomena, whose numerical simulation is not straightforward, depend on a set of parameters in a way which is not easy to predict beforehand. Wildland fires in presence of strong winds fall into this category, also due to the occurrence of firespotting. We present…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saha, Scanlon, D'Odorico
Aim: Fire is a globally important disturbance that affects nearly all vegetated biomes. Previous regional studies have suggested that the predictable seasonal pattern of a climatic time series, or seasonality, might aid in the prediction of average fire activity, but it is not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Jorgenson, Goetz, Jones, Wylie, Minsley, Genet, Knight, Swanson, Jorgenson
Contemporary climate change in Alaska has resulted in amplified rates of press and pulse disturbances that drive ecosystem change with significant consequences for socio‐environmental systems. Despite the vulnerability of Arctic and boreal landscapes to change, little has been…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brotons, Duane
Recent studies have explored the use of simple correlative models to project changes in future burnt areas (BAs) around the globe. However, estimates of future fire danger suffer from the critical shortcoming that feedbacks on climate change effects on vegetation are not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plucinski
Purpose of Review: Containing and controlling wildfire incidents is one of the main functions of fire management. Understanding how this can be done effectively and efficiently informs many of the preparatory activities undertaken by fire management agencies to limit the impact…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plucinski
Purpose of Review: The effectiveness of wildfire suppression is difficult to define as it can be assessed against different objectives and at a range of scales. The influence of multiple variables make it a challenge to research. This two-part series presents a synthesis of the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laurent, Mouillot, Moreno, Yue, Ciais
Vegetation fires are an important process in the Earth system. Fire intensity locally impacts fuel consumption, damage to the vegetation, chemical composition of fire emissions and also how fires spread across landscapes. It has been observed that fire occurrence, defined as the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Williams, Urbanski, Calkin, Short, O'Connor
The extent of the Earth’s surface burned annually by fires is affected by a number of drivers, including but not limited to climate. Other important drivers include the amount and type of vegetation (fuel) available and human impacts, including fire suppression, ignition, and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt gave a great public presentation discussing how climate is interacting with fire ecology in Alaska at her Science for Alaska lecture on February 19th.
Wildfires were in the news last fall -- again. Have you wondered what drives large fire seasons…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Batllori, De Cáceres, Brotons, Ackerly, Moritz, Lloret
Understanding ecosystem responses to compound disturbance regimes and the influence of specific sequences of events in determining ecosystem shifts remains a challenge. We use a modelling framework for Mediterranean‐type ecosystems to assess the effects of fire–drought…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirchmeier-Young, Gillett, Zwiers, Cannon, Anslow
A record 1.2 million ha burned in British Columbia, Canada's extreme wildfire season of 2017. Key factors in this unprecedented event were the extreme warm and dry conditions that prevailed at the time, which are also reflected in extreme fire weather and behavior metrics. Using…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crawford, Shahroudi
Wildfires have increased in frequency, duration, and intensity worldwide. Climate change, drought, and other factors have not only increased susceptibility to wildfires, but have also increased the duration of the season. There are a number of factors affecting wildfires:…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Higuera, Abatzoglou, Duffy, Hu
Aim: Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate, creating an inherent source of uncertainty when anticipating future change. We investigated the impact of threshold relationships on our ability to project ecological…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zou, Wang, Ke, Tian, Yang, Liu
Fires play a critical role in modulating regional and global climate through disturbances on meteorological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes, while fires are strongly affected by climate, terrestrial ecosystems, and human activities. The complex climate‐fire‐ecosystem…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
Fire is a ubiquitous natural disturbance that affects 3–4% of the Earth's surface each year. It is a tool used by humans for land clearing and burning of agricultural wastes. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do not explicitly mention fire, though many of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Sorption models were developed to predict the moisture content in fuelbeds of standing dead grass from ambient weather measurements. Intuition suggests that the response time of standing dead grass to diurnal changes in weather is negligible and that moisture content tracks the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forkel, Andela, Harrison, Lasslop, van Marle, Chuvieco, Dorigo, Forrest, Hantson, Heil, Li, Melton, Sitch, Yue, Arneth
Recent climate changes have increased fire-prone weather conditions in many regions and have likely affected fire occurrence, which might impact ecosystem functioning, biogeochemical cycles, and society. Prediction of how fire impacts may change in the future is difficult…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Behrendt, Payyappalli, Zhuang
The estimated cost of fire in the United States is about $329 billion a year, yet there are gaps in the literature to measure the effectiveness of investment and to allocate resources optimally in fire protection. This article fills these gaps by creating data‐driven empirical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Zhao, Tang, Miller, Sun, Gollner
Fuel loads in real-world fire scenarios often feature discrete elements, discontinuities, or inhomogeneities; however, most models for flame spread only assume a continuous, homogeneous fuel. Because discrete fuels represent a realistic scenario not yet well-modeled, it is of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll, Stasiewicz, Edgeley
One overarching goal of United States fire management focuses on fostering human populations who can 'adapt' to wildfire as an unavoidable, reoccurring process operating in the landscapes where they live. The goal of creating 'fire adapted communities' is generally taken to mean…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Houtman, Day, Ringo, Palaiologou
US public land management agencies are faced with multiple, often conflicting objectives to meet management targets and produce a wide range of ecosystem services expected from public lands. One example is managing the growing wildfire risk to human and ecological values while…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zambon, de Rezende, de Souza
In this paper, we introduce the Geometric Firefighter Routing Problem (gfrp) as a variant of the Geometric Firefighter Problem aiming to better model more realistic situations. We design an exact algorithm based on a core Linear Integer Programming formulation and propose…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES