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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Tetranucleotide, trinucleotide, and dinucleotide loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus)

Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning emissions: a review of models using remote-sensing data

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Phylogeograpy and genetic structure of white-breasted nuthatches: conservation implications for the Red Hills [Chapter 6]

Leonard
From the text (p. 144-145) ...'In this chapter I address 3 issues relevant to the White-breasted Nuthatches occupying the Red Hills of Florida and Georgia. First, I assess the levels of genetic diversity within, and among White-breasted Nuthatch populations, including those…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seasonal fire danger forecasts for the USA

Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest meteorology -- Preface

Brown, Ferguson, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation of historical and current fire regimes in central Saskatchewan for annual allowable cut determination

Li, Barclay, Lui, Campbell, Carlson
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The implications of forest fires in an anthropogenically warmed and harvested boreal forest in northwest Ontario, Canada [abstract]

Suffling, Munoz-Marquez, Perera, Zhao
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stand-replacing fire spread and stand age boundaries in a subalpine forest [abstract]

Gass, Robinson
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire-induced decrease in forest cover on boreal forest rock outcrop [abstract]

Asselin, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A method for integrating multiple components in a decision support system

Nute, Potter, Cheng, Dass, Glende, Maierv, Routh, Uchiyama, Wang, Witzig, Twery, Knopp, Thomasma, Rauscher
We present a flexible, extensible method for integrating multiple tools into a single large decision support system (DSS) using a forest ecosystem management DSS (NED-2) as an example. In our approach, a rich ontology for the target domain is developed and implemented in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Landscape-level interactions of prefire vegetation, burn severity, and postfire vegetation over a 16-year period in interior Alaska

Epting, Verbyla
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The wildland-urban interface in the United States

Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ABCs of correctly mapping a fire: New importance of fire location

Delaney
From the text ... 'Incorrectly mapped fire locations could distort the allocation of money and jobs. ...The two prominent location referencing systems used for fire locations on fire reports are latitude/longitude and Universal Transverse Mercator. ...Everyone involved in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A new look at wildland/urban interface hazard reduction: The emergency management cycle: A hazard assessment in progress

Keller
From the text ... 'A common set of definitions is needed for terms relating to hazard and risk reduction in the wildland/urban interface [WUI]. ...When addressing a fire hazard in the WUI, prevention and mitigation must each play a role. ...To reduce the potential for disaster…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Application of hazard and risk analysis at the project level to assess ecologic impact

Sampson, Sampson
The application of hazard and risk analysis to specific project areas prone to uncharacteristic wildland fires is a useful way to estimate the effects of management alternatives (including no action). These project-level analyses need to be done in the context of surrounding…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Multispectral remote sensing of landscape level foliar moisture: techniques and applications for forest ecosystem monitoring

Toomey, Vierling
Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire potential, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, principal components analysis (PCA), and the tasseled cap…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Spaced-based burn severity mapping in Alaska's national parks

Sorbel, Barnes
Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned. While the extent of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Landscape fragmentation and forest fuel accumulation: effects of fragment size, age, and climate - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation can affect fuel accumulation, increase the spatial variability of fuel loads, and affect the susceptibility of forests to fire. Fragmentation creates a complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States and Puerto Rico and few studies…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Global fire activity from two years of MODIS data

Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Research & development 2004 annual report

Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A novel approach to regional fuel mapping: linking inventory plots with satellite imagery and GIS databases using the Gradient Nearest Neighbor method

Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool - powerpoint

Hamilton, Jones, Zeiler
The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool (MRIT) was developed as an extension of ArcMap to facilitate the integration and summarization of spatial data. Simply put, MRIT characterizes the composition of feature layers (i.e., spatial themes added to an ArcMap document) within…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Guide to MAGIS eXpress

Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Predicting the risk of 'dry' lightning - fact sheet

Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Feasibility study on the use of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model to assist in implementing the Western Regional Air Partnership fire policies

This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES