Water content reflectometry is a method used by many commercial manufacturers of affordable sensors to electronically estimate soil moisture content. Field-deployable and handheld water content reflectometry probes were used in a variety of organic...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Bourgeau-Chavez, Garwood, Riordan, Koziol, Slawski
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire...
Person: Butler, Goldstein
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
A high proportion of global coverage by protected areas is composed of relatively few very large protected areas (vLPAs); it is therefore important to understand their contribution to biological conservation. Here, using fresh analyses and a review of...
Person: Cantu-Salazar, Gaston
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
This paper assesses the resilience of Alaska's boreal forest system to rapid climatic change. Recent warming is associated with reduced growth of dominant tree species, plant disease and insect outbreaks, warming and thawing of permafrost, drying...
Person: Chapin, McGuire, Ruess, Hollingsworth, Mack, Johnstone, Kasischke, Euskirchen, Jones, Jorgenson, Kielland, Kofinas, Turetsky, Yarie, Lloyd, Taylor
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire behavior model accuracy has suffered from a lack of specific information about how winds shift in direction and speed in mountainous terrain at fine scales. Before this project, fire managers lacked a tool that could provide real-time status of...
Person: Butler, Forthofer
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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...
Person: Acuna, Palma, Cui, Martell, Weintraub
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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...
Person: Alfano-Arguello, Diemont, Ferguson, Martin, Nahed-Toral, Alvarez-Solis, Ruiz
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Boreal forests store a large fraction of global terrestrial carbon and are susceptible to environmental change, particularly rising temperatures and increased fire frequency. These changes have the potential to drive positive feedbacks between climate...
Person: Allison, McGuire, Treseder
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Mechanical and fire treatments are commonly used to reduce fuels where land use practices have encouraged accumulation of woody debris and high densities of trees. Treatments focus on restoration of vegetation structure, but will also affect wildlife...
Person: Bagne, Finch
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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...
Person: Goldstein, Butler, Hull
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS