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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Azeria, Bouchard, Pothier, Fortin, Hébert
Aim The study aims to decipher the co-occurrence of understorey plant assemblages and, accordingly, to identify a set of species groups (diversity deconstruction) to better understand the multiple causal processes underlying post-fire succession and diversity patterns in boreal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alfano-Arguello, Diemont, Ferguson, Martin, Nahed-Toral, Alvarez-Solis, Ruiz
Conventional ranching in Chiapas, Mexico typically includes annual pasture burns and agrochemical use that decrease the biodiversity and forest cover of ranch lands. Members of a holistic ranching ''club'' in the Frailesca region of Chiapas, Mexico have moved away from this…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Acuna, Palma, Cui, Martell, Weintraub
Forest management planners usually treat potential fire loss estimates as exogenous parameters in their timber production planning processes. When they do so, they do not account for the fact that forest access road construction, timber harvesting, and silvicultural activities…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service manages fire to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats, while first ensuring human safety and then protecting our facilities and neighboring communities. Prescribed fire and other means…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Page
From the text ... 'To foster these programs at a local scale, fire management organizations must work with local organizations in addition to fire management agencies.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire and Aviation Management developed the Fire Suppression Doctrine to promote an informed, shared-learning culture in which firefighters avoid unnecessary risk. Doctrine is the body of foundational principles that guide how firefighters think and act when…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three to five days is highly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Tripp, Juang, Wang, Fujioka, Chen
Five National Fire Danger Rating System indices (including the Ignition Component, Energy Release Component, Burning Index, Spread Component, and the Keetch-Byram Drought Index) and the Fosberg Fire Weather Index are used to characterise US fire danger. These fire danger indices…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Huxman, Collins
Shrub encroachment in arid and semiarid rangelands, a worldwide phenomenon, results in a heterogeneous landscape characterized by a mosaic of nutrient-depleted barren soil bordered by nutrient-enriched shrubby areas known as ''fertile islands.'' Even though shrub encroachment is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Platt
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where human-built structures and infrastructure abut or mix with naturally occurring vegetation types. Wildfires are of particular concern in the WUI because these areas comprise extensive flammable vegetation, numerous structures,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kemball, Westwood, Wang
Mineral soils exposed by fire are often covered by a layer of ash due to complete consumption of the forest floor (litter and duff). To assess the possible effects of ash on seed germination and viability of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.), black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.)…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldstein, Butler, Hull
Conservation Learning Networks (UN) are an emerging conservation strategy for addressing complex resource management challenges that face the forestry profession. The US Fire Learning Network (FLN) is a successful example of a CLN that operates on a national scale. Developed in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Best
From the text ... 'Conservation easements are a voluntary, incentive-based approach to recognizing the public benefits provided by private forests. The land stays in private ownership and in productive use, while key 'conservation values' such as open space, fish and wildlife…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auger, Payette
Paleoecological analysis using complementary indicators of vegetation and soil can provide spatially explicit information on ecological processes influencing trajectories of long-term ecosystem change. Here we document the structure and dynamics of an old-growth woodland before…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Widenmaier, Strong
Tree encroachment into rough fescue (Festuca campestris) grassland has been identified as an ecological concern on the Cypress Hills plateau in southeastern Alberta, Canada. A combination of field sampling (109 transects), a dendrochronological assessment (1361 trees), and a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramírez Trejo, Perez-Garcia, Perez-Salicrup, Orozco-Segovia
Pteridium caudatum is a fern that frequently invades burnt areas in the Yucatan Peninsula and other neotropical sites. While post-fire regeneration of this fern apparently occurs mainly by vegetative means, little is known about the role of its spores in post-fire regeneration…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spear, Storfer
Understanding the influence of habitat alteration on population structure and persistence is critical for effective conservation strategies. Timber harvest and wildfire are two of the most prevalent disturbances across temperate forests, yet the long-term effects of these two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quinn, McFarland, LaFiandra, Bazar, Johnson
2-Amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT) is a metabolite of the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) which is present in the soil at numerous U.S. Army installations as the result of TNT manufacture or training activities. Although many avian species are known to inhabit areas where…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podur, Wotton
Using anomalies calculated from General Circulation Model (GCM) climate predictions we developed scenarios of future fire weather, fuel moisture and fire occurrence and used these as the inputs to a fire growth and suppression simulation model for the province of Ontario, Canada…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otto, Garcia-del-Rey, Munoz, Fernandez-Palacios
The Canarian pine (Pinus canariensis) exhibits a striking combination of high adult resistance to fire and intermediate serotiny. Hence, the study of its post-fire regeneration can support valuable new insights about functional adaptations to fire. Here, we analyse the first-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mieville, Granier, Liousse, Guillaume, Mouillot, Lamarque, Gregoire, Petron
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hwang, Gardner, Millar
We investigated the responses of endoparasites in red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi) to fire in a boreal forest ecosystem. Because fire affects the environmental conditions and biodiversity of the forest ecosystem, the life cycle of parasites may also be affected because of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gross, Romo
Historically, fires occurred throughout the year in the Fescue Prairie of Canada, but little is known about plant community responses to burning at different times of the year. Composition of plant communities was determined annually for 6 years after burning one or three times…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS