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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Forthofer, Butler, Wagenbrenner
For this study three types of wind models have been defined for simulating surface wind flow in support of wildland fire management: (1) a uniform wind field (typically acquired from coarse-resolution (~4 km) weather service forecast models); (2) a newly developed mass-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodford
In 2010 almost 100,000 acres burned around Farewell Lakes-you may recall the "Turquoise Lake" fire. If you're interested to see what effect this is having on the Farewell bison herd, check the October 2014 issue of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game newsletter.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] For years, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has been creating fuelbreaks by managing vegetation along its boundaries. Planning by the Refuge, the State, and private landowners led to construction of fuelbreaks designed to protect homes from the next wildfire,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Paveglio, Ellison, Abrams, Moseley
The wildfire dilemma in the United States (and particularly in the U.S. West) has been well documented and its broad parameters are well understood. A very small fraction of wildfire igniting in wildland settings each year turn into major conflagrations that burn homes and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Thompson, Whittier, Stambaugh, Dey
Climate has a primary influence on the occurrence and rate of combustion in ecosystems with carbon-based fuels such as forests and grasslands. Society will be confronted with the effects of climate change on fire in future forests. There are, however, few quantitative appraisals…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Patadia, Christopher
The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) data has been used by several studies to calculate the top of atmosphere (TOA) shortwave aerosol radiative forcing (SWARF) of biomass burning aerosols over land. However, the current CERES angular distribution models that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The new VIIRS 375 m active fire detection data product: algorithm description and initial assessment
The first Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) was launched in October 2011 aboard the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite. The VIIRS instrument carries two separate sets of multi-spectral channels providing full global coverage at both 375 m…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Padilla, Stehman, Chuvieco
The 2008 global burned area product MODIS-MCD45 was validated and accuracy measures were estimated globally and for several terrestrial biomes. Stratified random sampling was used to select 102 non-overlapping Thiessen scene areas (TSA) and reference fire perimeters were…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Collatz, Masek, Huang, Goward
Forest carbon stocks and fluxes are highly dynamic following stand-clearing disturbances from severe fire and harvest and this presents a significant challenge for continental carbon budget assessments. In this work we use forest inventory data to parameterize a carbon cycle…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Schroeder
The use of the sub-pixel bi-spectral fire temperature and area retrieval with moderate and coarse spatial resolution satellite data has grown in recent years despite the numerous significant limitations of the method. Many of these limitations arise from a well-known sensitivity…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gustine, Brinkman, Lindgren, Schmidt, Rupp, Adams
Climatic warming has direct implications for fire-dominated disturbance patterns in northern ecosystems. A transforming wildfire regime is altering plant composition and successional patterns, thus affecting the distribution and potentially the abundance of large herbivores.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Martínez, Román, Hantson, Pettinari
Aim: This paper presents a map of global fire vulnerability, estimating the potential damage of wildland fires to global ecosystems. Location: Global scale at 0.5° grid resolution. Methods: Three vulnerability factors were considered: ecological richness and fragility,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastro, Dickman, Letnic
Aim: We conducted a quantitative meta-analysis to investigate the responses of vertebrate diversity to fire, controlling for variables such as fire type, taxon and ecoregion to identify trends across studies and locations. Location: World-wide. Methods: We calculated indices of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowman, Murphy, Williamson, Cochrane
Conceptual and phenomenological macroecological models of current global fire activity have demonstrated the overwhelming control exerted by primary productivity. Fire activity is very high in savanna regions with intermediate primary productivity, and very low in both densely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Parks, Krawchuk, Little, Flannigan, Gowman, Moritz
Fire regimes of the Canadian boreal forest are driven by certain environmental factors that are highly variable from year to year (e.g., temperature, precipitation) and others that are relatively stable (e.g., land cover, topography). Studies examining the relative influence of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chief, Daigle, Lynn, Whyte
The recognition of climate change issues facing tribal communities and indigenous peoples in the United States is growing, and understanding its impacts is rooted in indigenous ethical perspectives and systems of ecological knowledge. This foundation presents a context and guide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
Invasive species, non-native plants, insects, and diseases can devastate forests. They outcompete native species, replace them in the ecosystem, and even drive keystone forest species to functional extinction. Invasives have negative effects on forest hydrology, carbon storage,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caro, Charles, Clink, Riggio, Weill, Whitesell
A protected area (PA) is defined as "an area of land and/ or sea especially dedicated to protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN 1994). The IUCN divides PAs…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton visited Fairbanks in August 2014 to talk with managers and researchers about the further development and enhancement of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which is the system used universally across Canada (and in other areas, including Alaska)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapman
As green roofs continue to grow in popularity, their appearance in wildfire-prone areas is likely to occur with increasing frequency. Although there is extensive research on fire in the wildland urban interface (WUI) and structure design to minimize fire risk, there has been…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie, Ottmar, McCarty, Norheim, Hamermesh, Soja
Biomass burning has become an important component of Earth-system models as understanding improves about fire as a global ecosystem process. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities, can impair air quality and visibility for hundreds of kilometers downwind, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Asah
Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non-managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley
Wildfires have played a determining role in distribution, composition and structure of many ecosystems worldwide and climatic changes are widely considered to be a major driver of future fire regime changes. However, forecasting future climatic change induced impacts on fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The effects of wildland fire on communities have become more intense, frequent, and far-reaching. Increased development in the wildland urban interface means higher wildfire risk and more suppression needs, costing billions every year. A comprehensive approach to preparedness…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spellman, Mulder, Hollingsworth
As climate rapidly warms at high-latitudes, the boreal forest faces the simultaneous threats of increasing invasive plant abundances and increasing area burned by wildfire. Highly flammable and widespread black spruce (Picea mariana) forest represents a boreal habitat that may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES