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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pinno, Landhausser, Chow, Quideau, MacKenzie
Forest land reclamation after oil sands mining requires the re-establishment of self-sustaining boreal forest ecosystems consisting of native forest plant species. This greenhouse study examined germination, growth, and nutrient uptake of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium (L.)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lehsten, de Groot, Flannigan, George, Harmand, Balzter
Wildfires are a major driver of ecosystem development and contributor to carbon emissions in boreal forests. We analyzed the contribution of fires of different fire size classes to the total burned area and suggest a novel fire characteristic, the characteristic fire size, i.e.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
Fires are the major natural disturbance in the boreal forest, and their frequency and intensity will likely increase as the climate warms. Terrestrial nutrients released by fires may be transported to boreal lakes, stimulating increased primary productivity, which may radiate…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Cohen, Finney, Thompson
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not without…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Börger, Nudds
Understanding the effects of landscape change and environmental variability on ecological processes is important for evaluating resource management policies, such as the emulation of natural forest disturbances. We analyzed time series of detection/nondetection data using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bond-Lamberty, Rocha, Calvin, Holmes, Wang, Goulden
Most North American forests are at some stage of post-disturbance regrowth, subject to a changing climate, and exhibit growth and mortality patterns that may not be closely coupled to annual environmental conditions. Distinguishing the possibly interacting effects of these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
The FFI ecological monitoring utilities are an integration of FEAT and FIREMON, two respected, science-based programs used for fire effects monitoring on public lands. Funded by the Interagency Fuels Management Committee and developed jointly by the National Park Service and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume v 4.2 reflects an improved understanding of fuel consumption and emissions in wildland fire throughout major fuel types in the United States. Consume is a decision-making tool, designed to assist resource managers in planning for prescribed fire, wildland fire for use,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jefferson, Pennachio, Havens
Ecology of Plant-Derived Smoke is the continuation of the research and discussion presented in Uses & Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke, published in 2010. Both books are the first of their kind in what is now an ever-expanding and exciting field of research. This volume focuses…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knorr, Kaminski, Arneth, Weber
Human impact on wildfires, a major earth system component, remains poorly understood. While local studies have found more fires close to settlements and roads, assimilated charcoal records and analyses of regional fire patterns from remote-sensing observations point to a decline…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Bond-Lamberty, Levis
Fire is the primary form of terrestrial ecosystem disturbance on a global scale. It affects the net carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems by emitting carbon directly and immediately into the atmosphere from biomass burning (the fire direct effect), and by changing net…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
The purpose of this study was to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices accurately and at fine resolution for use in physics-based fire behavior simulations. Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (T-LiDAR) was used to measure shrub fuel beds in laboratory settings before and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prince
Wildland fuels and fire behavior have been the focus of numerous studies and models which provide operational support to firefighters. However, fuel and fire complexity in live shrubs has resulted in unexpected and sometimes aggressive fire behavior. The combustion of live fuels…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Cadule, Thonicke, Archibald, Poulter, Hao, Hantson, Mouillot, Friedlingstein, Maignan, Viovy
Fire is an important global ecological process that influences the distribution of biomes, with consequences for carbon, water, and energy budgets. Therefore it is impossible to appropriately model the history and future of the terrestrial ecosystems and the climate system…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lammers, Horel
Software has been developed to evaluate National Weather Service spot forecasts. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of planned…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bennett, Brown, Doney, Gates, Miller, Palmquist, Place
The Joint Fire Sciences Program (JFSP) is a multi-federal agency group that brings together a diverse set of stakeholders that need to understand fire behavior with scientists who study fire behavior. The program's doctrine, training, and tool products help the wildland fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norheim, Alvarado, Peterson
This project archived the data from several projects conducted with JFSP support by the Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) (FERA). Data is being archived at the Forest…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen-Charpentier, Leite
Predictive models of insect outbreak exist for some processes for few species, but an additional and rarely explored complication is the potential interaction between insect outbreak and wildfire disturbances in forests. The association between insect and fire dynamics is…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peterman, Bachelet, Ferschweiler, Sheehan
Climate change has significant effects on critical ecosystem functions such as carbon and water cycling. Vegetation and especially forest ecosystems play an important role in the carbon and hydrological cycles. Vegetation models that include detailed belowground processes…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
Many people believe that all wildlife flee before the flames of a fire like the animated characters in the movie Bambi. Contrary to this belief, during the 1988 burns around Yellowstone Park, animal behavioral scientists didn't observe large animals fleeing the fire; to the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
We've seen it on the news, extreme fire behavior in areas where wildlands meet rural developments, an area called the wildland-urban interface (WUI). At first look all you see are buildings burnt to the ground - but look again. Those piles of ash that were once a family home are…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moritz, Batllori, Bradstock, Gill, Handmer, Hessburg, Leonard, McCaffrey, Odion, Schoennagel, Syphard
The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions - the lives and homes lost, the expense of suppression and the damage to ecosystem services - necessitate a more sustainable coexistence with wildfire. Climate change and continued development on fire-prone landscapes will only…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Granier, Bessagnet, Bond, D'Angiola, van der Gon, Frost, Heil, Kaiser, Kinne, Klimont, Kloster, Lamarque, Liousse, Masui, Meleux, Mieville, Ohara, Raut, Riahi, Schultz, Smith, Thompson, van Aardenne, Van der Werf, van Vuuren
Several different inventories of global and regional anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions are assessed for the 1980-2010 period. The species considered in this study are carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and black carbon. The inventories considered include…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES