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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
This video introduces fire ecology and the role it plays in the health of forest communities. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Agee, Decker
There is relatively little scientific understanding of mixed severity fire regimes, compared to low severity fire regimes. However, mixed severity regimes widespread in the United States, and ecology and fuel treatments must be considered in the current manadate to accelerate…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Swetnam, Villalba, Whitlock
We propose a workshop in 2002 at the University of Arizona to discuss the current state of knowledge on fire and its linkages between climate and ecosystem change. Such discussion requires a concerted and collaborative effort among traditionally independent disciplines. We will…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Jakes
This Joint Fire Science Program proposal seeks to characterize and compare different collaborative planning efforts for community protection and ecosystem restoration related to wildfire, and to determine key elements of collaborative success (Task 2 of AFP, 2003-1). There is a…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Project Objectives: Land managers and researchers from the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service), Department of Interior (National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management), and universities will work collaboratively to complete the design of an…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel treatments can be decisive in…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brownlie
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES