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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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van Wagtendonk
Welcome to the first issue of Fire Ecology, the Journal of the Association for Fire Ecology. Why another new journal? That is the same question we were asked when we founded the Association over four years ago, and the answer is the same. Other societies and their journals…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
How should we think about fire? An answer is not obvious. It is testimony to the immense significance of fire that humanity has for so long chosen not only to anthropomorphize it but to grant it a substantive identity it does not deserve. Early philosophers considered it a god,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bataineh, Oswald, Bataineh, Unger, Hung, Scognamillo
Fire ecologists face many challenges regarding the statistical analysis of their studies. Hurlbert (1984) brought the problem of pseudoreplication to the scientific community's attention in the mid 1980's. Now, there is a new issue in the form of spatial autocorrelation. Spatial…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eidenshink, Schwind, Brewer, Zhu, Quayle, Howard
Elected officials and leaders of environmental agencies need information about the effects of large wildfires in order to set policy and make management decisions. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates the National Fire Plan (NFP…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
Fire is a primary change agent in many terrestrial ecosystems. Appreciation is growing for the essential role fire plays in fire-adapted ecosystems. Nevertheless, humans living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) understandably regard fires as a threat to their safety, their…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
What better way to learn about fire ecology than to allow fires to burn during their own season, at their own pace, and without interference from humans? The strategy known as wildland fire use (WFU) does just that, and is being increasingly applied, with over one million acres…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutto, Conway, Saab, Walters
Bird species that specialize in the use of burned forest conditions can provide insight into the prehistoric fire regimes associated with the forest types that they have occupied over evolutionary time. The nature of their adaptations reflects the specific post-fire conditions…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts
Fire regimes and vegetation structure and composition form a direct feedback loop, where fire regimes shape patterns in the vegetation and vegetation affects fire regime attributes. For decades, researchers focused their attention on the essential relationships between fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donato, Campbell, Fontaine, Law
Charred biomass generated by wildland fire has attracted increased interest as a functional component of terrestrial ecosystems. Black carbon (C) in the form of char is a widespread but unique material contributing to biogeochemical processes including long-term carbon storage…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak, Forthofer, Cohen, Finney
One of the many features of a spreading fire is the shape of the combustion interface. We hypothesize that the shape of the flame profile within burning fuel is key to fire propagation because it reflects the mechanisms of energy transfer to the unburned fuels. Most laboratory…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev
An iterative method for determining slope in noisy lidar data is considered based on the use of a corrected ('shaped') inverted function and an assumed behavior of the unknown function of interest (an 'image function'). The method is utilized for extracting extinction-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Keane, Steele, Reeves, Pratt
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kreye, Varner
Mastication has become a popular fuels treatment in the Western United States, but predicting subsequent fire behavior and effects has proven difficult. Fire behavior and effects in masticated fuelbeds have been more intense and erratic in comparison with model predictions.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman, Bian
The 24- to 72-hour fire-weather predictions for different regions of the United States are now readily available from the regional Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) that were established as part of the U.S. National Fire Plan. These…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frankman, Webb, Butler
Thermal radiation emission from a simulated black flame surface to a fuel bed is analyzed by a ray-tracing technique, tracking emission from points along the flame to locations along the fuel bed while accounting for absorption by environmental water vapor in the intervening…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model and a mass-consistent model were used to simulate winds on simulated fire spread over a simple, low hill. The results suggest that the CFD wind field could significantly change simulated fire spread compared to traditional uniform winds…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jimenez, Hussaini, Goodrick
The purpose of the present work is to quantify parametric uncertainty in Rothermel's wildland fire spread model (implemented in software such as BehavePlus3 and FARSITE), which is undoubtedly among the most widely used fire spread models in the United States. This model consists…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dietenberger
Effective mitigation of external fires on structures can be achieved flexibly, economically, and aesthetically by (1) preventing large-area ignition on structures from close proximity of burning vegetations and (2) stopping flame travel from firebrands landing on combustible…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Robinson, Harrod, Gessler, Smith
The conditions necessary for the combustion of canopy fuels are not well known but are assumed to be highly influenced by the volume through which the canopy fuels are dispersed, known as canopy bulk density (CBD). Propagating crown fire is defined as a continuous wall of flame…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Anderson, Catchpole
Data demonstrate the effect of slope on heading and backing fires burning through woody fuels. The data indicate that the upper limit of heading fire rate of spread is defined by the rate of spread up a vertical fuel array, and the lower limit is defined by the rate of spread of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bishop
The FireLine Assessment MEthod (FLAME) provides a fireline-practical tool for predicting significant changes in fire rate-of-spread (ROS). FLAME addresses the dominant drivers of large, short-term change: effective windspeed, fuel type, and fine-fuel moisture. Primary output is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nasiatka, Christenson
How can a unit learn in everyday fuels programs and from program reviews? How can a unit move from living in the 'report card' culture to discovering more effective ways to improve what it knows and how it learns? Six specific tasks are critical to organizational learning…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, DeMeo, Jones, Zeiler, Hutter
Knowledge of ecological departure from a range of reference conditions provides a critical context for managing sustainable ecosystems. Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is a qualitative measure characterizing possible departure from historical fire regimes. The FRCC Mapping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES