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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Collins, Stevens, Miller, Stephens, Brown, North
Context: The proportion of fire area that experienced stand-replacing fire effects is an important attribute of individual fires and fire regimes in forests, and this metric has been used to group forest types into characteristic fire regimes. However, relying on proportion…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Interagency Fire Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations Guide standardizes the processes and procedures for interagency use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including pilot inspections and approvals. In support of fire management goals and objectives, the aviation community…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Blankenship, Beauchaine, Helmbrecht, Patton
Keeping fuel data current over time is an issue faced by many wildland fire managers. Natural events like wildfires and hurricanes, and human activities, such as forest thinning, prescribed fire, and development constantly change the landscape and quickly render fuel data out of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Di Giuseppe, Pappenberger, Wetterhall, Krzeminski, Camia, Libertà, San Miguel
A global fire danger rating system driven by atmospheric model forcing has been developed with the aim of providing early warning information to civil protection authorities. The daily predictions of fire danger conditions are based on the U.S. Forest Service National Fire-…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Officials GAO interviewed from the five federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management-the Forest Service with in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service with in…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The significant wildland fire potential forecasts included in this outlook represent the cumulative forecasts of the ten Geographic Area Predictive Services units and the National Predictive Services unit.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parsons, Linn, Pimont, Hoffman, Sauer, Winterkamp, Sieg, Jolly
Landscape heterogeneity shapes species distributions, interactions, and fluctuations. Historically, in dry forest ecosystems, low canopy cover and heterogeneous fuel patterns often moderated disturbances like fire. Over the last century, however, increases in canopy cover and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vaillant, Reinhardt
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy recognizes that wildfire is a necessary natural process in many ecosystems and strives to reduce conflicts between fire-prone landscapes and people. In an effort to mitigate potential negative wildfire impacts proactively,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pausas, Ribeiro
Aim: Understanding the drivers of global diversity has challenged ecologists for decades. Drivers related to the environment, productivity and heterogeneity are considered primary factors, whereas disturbance has received less attention. Given that fire is a global factor that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Landry, Matthews
The incomplete combustion of vegetation and dead organic matter by landscape fires creates recalcitrant pyrogenic carbon (PyC), which could be consequential for the global carbon budget if changes in fire regime, climate, and atmospheric CO2 were to substantially affect gains…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Modern works by highly skilled narrative authors and artists have become increasingly useful for telling the story of wildland fire in the United States. Using unconventional means-and with partial funding by the Joint Fire Science Program-creative individuals have spawned some…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Katuwal, Dunn, Calkin
Currently, limited research on large-fire suppression effectiveness suggests fire managers may over-allocate resources relative to values to be protected. Coupled with observations that weather may be more important than resource abundance to achieve control objectives, resource…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stonesifer, Calkin, Hand
Wildland firefighting in the United States is a complex and costly enterprise. While there are strong seasonal signatures for fire occurrence in specific regions of the United States, spatiotemporal occurrence of wildfire activity can have high inter-annual variability.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ingalsbee
The growing frequency of large wildland fires has raised awareness of the ‘wildfire paradox’ and the ‘firefighting trap’ that are both rooted in the fire exclusion paradigm. However, a paradigm shift has been unfolding in the wildland fire community that seeks to restore fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Dunn, Calkin, Thompson
Wildfire’s economic, ecological and social impacts are on the rise, fostering the realisation that business-as-usual fire management in the United States is not sustainable. Current response strategies may be inefficient and contributing to unnecessary responder exposure to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Veldman, Buisson, Durigan, Fernandes, Le Stradic, Mahy, Negreiros, Overbeck, Veldman, Zaloumis, Putz, Bond
We expand the concept of “old growth” to encompass the distinct ecologies and conservation values of the world's ancient grass-dominated biomes. Biologically rich grasslands, savannas, and open-canopy woodlands suffer from an image problem among scientists, policy makers, land…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Huang, Rein
Vegetation, wildfire and atmospheric oxygen on Earth have changed throughout geological times, and are dependent on each other, determining the evolution of ecosystems, the carbon cycle, and the climate, as found in the fossil record. Previous work in the literature has only…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Toulouse, Rossi, Campana, Celik, Akhloufi
The last decade has witnessed the use of computer vision for wildfire detection and measurement. The first and most important step for computer vision analysis is the fire pixel detection because it determines the accuracy of the following processing. The evaluation and the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jhariya, Raj
Fire is one of the most destructive threats faced by our forests. Fire is good servant but a bad master. The fire season starts in March/April continues up to June. Wildfires destroy not only flora (tree, herbs, grassland, forbs, etc.) and their diversity but also considerable…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bar-Massada, Radeloff, Stewart
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on the WUI has been focused on wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there is a need to quantify the extent of areas in which human…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Veraverbeke, Rogers, Goulden, Jandt, Miller, Wiggins, Randerson
Changes in climate and fire regimes are transforming the boreal forest, the world’s largest biome. Boreal North America recently experienced two years with large burned area: 2014 in the Northwest Territories and 2015 in Alaska. Here we use climate, lightning, fire and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Herawati, González-Olabarria, Wijaya, Martius, Purnomo, Andriani
Fire is an intrinsic element of many forest ecosystems; it shapes their ecological processes, determines species composition and influences landscape structure. However, wildfires may: have undesirable effects on biodiversity and vegetation coverage; produce carbon emissions to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

An, Gan, Cho
This study examines the statistical association of wildfire risk with climatic conditions and non-climate variables in 48 continental US states. Because the response variable “wildfire risk” is a fractional variable bounded between zero and one, we use a non-linear panel data…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Ziel, Strader, Pyne, Henderson
Presented at the 2016 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Weather information, surface observations and forecasts, is among the most widely viewed topics on the web. It is the one way that the history, current setting, and forecast fire potential can be quickly compared. Fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Benali, Mota, Carvalhais, Oom, Miller, Campagnolo, Pereira
Aim: While fire is recognized as an integral part of the Earth system, the ability of humans to shape fire regimes both spatially and temporally remains poorly understood. Our goals were to identify the extent of fire regimes exhibiting two annual fire seasons and to investigate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES