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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Buisson, Archibald, Fidelis, Suding
Grasslands, which constitute almost 40% of the terrestrial biosphere, provide habitat for a great diversity of animals and plants and contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people worldwide. Whereas the destruction and degradation of grasslands can occur rapidly,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santo, Huber-Stearns, Smith
This review paper synthesizes peer-reviewed empirical research published between 2010 and 2021 about wildland fire communication practices. Our goal was to systematically review and provide an overview of how wildland fire communication has been empirically studied, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bousquet, Mialon, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Mermoz, Kerr
Anthropogenic climate change is now considered to be one of the main factors causing an increase in both the frequency and severity of wildfires. These fires are prone to release substantial quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and to endanger natural ecosystems and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors such as climate change and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steen-Adams, Lake, Jones, Kruger
Multiple aspects of forest land management present research partnership opportunities for the USDA Forest Service and tribal nations. These aspects include forests, fuels, and ecocultural resources that often are appropriate to manage at the landscape scale. The impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the advancements in soil and fire sciences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beginning in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) purposely brought together USDA Forest Service scientists from Research and Development and forest managers from the National Forest System to meet face-to-face to build a science and management partnership in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Bertone-Riggs, Brown, Goulette, Greiner, Kruse, Shively, Smith
[from the text] Our steering committee is dedicated to advancing federal policy to support wider use of prescribed fire and wildfire managed for resource benefits. Both these uses of fire are essential tools for fuel reduction, community protection, and the restoration of fire-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese, Coleman, Thomas
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, biochar is not currently widely used on forested lands across North America. This chapter…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girona-García, Cretella, Fernández, Robichaud, Vieira, Keizer
Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating such responses, especially at…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Galatowitsch
Organizations entrusted with responsibilities and resources to repair ecosystems have for many decades pursued their defining purpose against long odds created by a host of inherent challenges, notably the long time frames required for ecological recovery and landscape-level…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Svejcar, Kerby, Svejcar, Mackey, Boyd, Baughman, Madsen, Davies
Restoration in dryland ecosystems is hindered by low establishment of seeded species. As such, evaluations of current seeding methods are critical to understanding limitations and barriers to seeding success. Drill seeding is perceived as an optimal seeding strategy in many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Kennedy, Harrison, Alvarado, Desautel, Holford, Logue
Salvage logging is a controversial tool for post-wildfire management that removes fire-killed trees. We use a generalized randomized experimental design to fulfill two main objectives: (1) quantify the immediate (1-year post-harvest) effects of salvage logging on stand structure…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pugh, Colley, Dugdale, Edwards, Flitcroft, Holz, Johnson, Mariani, Means-Brous, Meyer, Moffett, Renan, Schrodt, Thorne, Valman, Wijayratne, Field
Background
Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosaics of wildfire severity and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Thode, Peterson, Gallagher, Flatley, Friggens, Evans, Loehman, Hedwall, Brandt, Janowiak, Swanston
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-induced disruptions to fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steketee, Rocha, Gough, Griffin, Klupar, An, Williamson, Rowe
Fire is an important ecological disturbance that can reset ecosystems and initiate changes in plant community composition, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and primary productivity. Since herbivores rely on primary producers for food, changes in vegetation may alter plant-herbivore…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zahed, Bączek-Kwinta
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in this field was initiated in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Papaioannou, Alamanos, Maris
Wildfires affect and change the burned sites’ condition, functionality, and ecosystem services. Altered hydrologic processes, such as runoff, increased streamflows, and sediment transport, are only a few examples resulting from burned soils, vegetation, and land cover. Such…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Research brief on wildfire interaction with invassive weeds
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jacobs, Dumroese, Brennan, Campbell, Conrad, Delborne, Fitzsimmons, Flores, Giardina, Greenwood, Martín, Merkle, Nelson, Newhouse, Powell, Romero-Severson, Showalter, Sniezko, Strauss, Westbrook, Woodcock
Introduced pests (insects and pathogens) have rapidly increased the numbers of at-risk native forest tree species worldwide. Some keystone species have been functionally extirpated, resulting in severe commercial and ecological losses. When efforts to exclude or mitigate pests…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charnley, Davis, Schelhas
The USDA Forest Service received $5.447 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, providing substantial funding to support implementation of the agency’s 2022 Wildfire Crisis Strategy between fiscal years 2022 and 2026. This article examines how the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES