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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Long
The Joint Fire Science Program's Knowledge Exchange Consortia Network is actively working to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by Federal, tribal, State, local and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) is a national nonprofit organization promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management. FUSEE members include current, former, and retired wildland firefighters; fire managers, scientists, and educators;…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Much of the language used by the wildland fire community and news media has implicit anti-fire bias that perpetuates anti-fire attitudes. In order to promote greater fire use for ecological fire management, new words need to be created; existing words should be redefined; and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different fuels and fire planning models,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Griffiths, Brook
Fire is a natural disturbance that exerts an important influence on global ecosystems, affecting vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle and climate. However, human-induced changes to fire regimes may affect at-risk species groups such as small mammals. We…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rauscher, Drury
The last decade saw a dramatic proliferation of software systems intended to help fire and fuels managers in the United States. Funding for these software systems came from a variety of sources without any central control or vision. A governance process with stated requirements…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler, McHugh, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton, Shannon, Wagenbrenner
The effect of fine-resolution wind simulations on fire growth simulations is explored. The wind models are (1) a wind field consisting of constant speed and direction applied everywhere over the area of interest; (2) a tool based on the solution of the conservation of mass only…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Forthofer, Butler, Wagenbrenner
For this study three types of wind models have been defined for simulating surface wind flow in support of wildland fire management: (1) a uniform wind field (typically acquired from coarse-resolution (~4 km) weather service forecast models); (2) a newly developed mass-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodford
In 2010 almost 100,000 acres burned around Farewell Lakes-you may recall the "Turquoise Lake" fire. If you're interested to see what effect this is having on the Farewell bison herd, check the October 2014 issue of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game newsletter.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] For years, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has been creating fuelbreaks by managing vegetation along its boundaries. Planning by the Refuge, the State, and private landowners led to construction of fuelbreaks designed to protect homes from the next wildfire,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Paveglio, Ellison, Abrams, Moseley
The wildfire dilemma in the United States (and particularly in the U.S. West) has been well documented and its broad parameters are well understood. A very small fraction of wildfire igniting in wildland settings each year turn into major conflagrations that burn homes and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Thompson, Whittier, Stambaugh, Dey
Climate has a primary influence on the occurrence and rate of combustion in ecosystems with carbon-based fuels such as forests and grasslands. Society will be confronted with the effects of climate change on fire in future forests. There are, however, few quantitative appraisals…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Patadia, Christopher
The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) data has been used by several studies to calculate the top of atmosphere (TOA) shortwave aerosol radiative forcing (SWARF) of biomass burning aerosols over land. However, the current CERES angular distribution models that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The new VIIRS 375 m active fire detection data product: algorithm description and initial assessment
The first Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) was launched in October 2011 aboard the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite. The VIIRS instrument carries two separate sets of multi-spectral channels providing full global coverage at both 375 m…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Padilla, Stehman, Chuvieco
The 2008 global burned area product MODIS-MCD45 was validated and accuracy measures were estimated globally and for several terrestrial biomes. Stratified random sampling was used to select 102 non-overlapping Thiessen scene areas (TSA) and reference fire perimeters were…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Collatz, Masek, Huang, Goward
Forest carbon stocks and fluxes are highly dynamic following stand-clearing disturbances from severe fire and harvest and this presents a significant challenge for continental carbon budget assessments. In this work we use forest inventory data to parameterize a carbon cycle…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Schroeder
The use of the sub-pixel bi-spectral fire temperature and area retrieval with moderate and coarse spatial resolution satellite data has grown in recent years despite the numerous significant limitations of the method. Many of these limitations arise from a well-known sensitivity…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gustine, Brinkman, Lindgren, Schmidt, Rupp, Adams
Climatic warming has direct implications for fire-dominated disturbance patterns in northern ecosystems. A transforming wildfire regime is altering plant composition and successional patterns, thus affecting the distribution and potentially the abundance of large herbivores.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Martínez, Román, Hantson, Pettinari
Aim: This paper presents a map of global fire vulnerability, estimating the potential damage of wildland fires to global ecosystems. Location: Global scale at 0.5° grid resolution. Methods: Three vulnerability factors were considered: ecological richness and fragility,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastro, Dickman, Letnic
Aim: We conducted a quantitative meta-analysis to investigate the responses of vertebrate diversity to fire, controlling for variables such as fire type, taxon and ecoregion to identify trends across studies and locations. Location: World-wide. Methods: We calculated indices of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowman, Murphy, Williamson, Cochrane
Conceptual and phenomenological macroecological models of current global fire activity have demonstrated the overwhelming control exerted by primary productivity. Fire activity is very high in savanna regions with intermediate primary productivity, and very low in both densely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Parks, Krawchuk, Little, Flannigan, Gowman, Moritz
Fire regimes of the Canadian boreal forest are driven by certain environmental factors that are highly variable from year to year (e.g., temperature, precipitation) and others that are relatively stable (e.g., land cover, topography). Studies examining the relative influence of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chief, Daigle, Lynn, Whyte
The recognition of climate change issues facing tribal communities and indigenous peoples in the United States is growing, and understanding its impacts is rooted in indigenous ethical perspectives and systems of ecological knowledge. This foundation presents a context and guide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
Invasive species, non-native plants, insects, and diseases can devastate forests. They outcompete native species, replace them in the ecosystem, and even drive keystone forest species to functional extinction. Invasives have negative effects on forest hydrology, carbon storage,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caro, Charles, Clink, Riggio, Weill, Whitesell
A protected area (PA) is defined as "an area of land and/ or sea especially dedicated to protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN 1994). The IUCN divides PAs…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES