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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hély, Girardin, Ali, Carcaillet, Brewer, Bergeron
We present here a 7000-year wildfire reconstruction based on sedimentary charcoal series from five lakes located south of Hudson Bay in eastern boreal North America. The reconstruction shows a significant downward trend in the frequency of large fires from 0.0061 fire·yr^-1 ca.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gagnon, Passmore, Platt, Myers, Paine, Harms
Pyrogenic plants dominate many fire-prone ecosystems. Their prevalence suggests some advantage to their enhanced flammability, but researchers have had difficulty tying pyrogenicity to individual-level advantages. Based on our review, we propose that enhanced flammability in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Mack, Hollingsworth, Harden
Shifts in moss communities may affect the resilience of boreal ecosystems to a changing climate because of the role of moss species in regulating soil climate and biogeochemical cycling. Here, we use long-term data analysis and literature synthesis to examine the role of moss in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Power, Marlon, Bartlein, Harrison
Version 1 of the Global Charcoal Database is now available for regional fire history reconstructions, data exploration, hypothesis testing, and evaluation of coupled climate-vegetation-fire model simulations. The charcoal database contains over 400 radiocarbon-dated records that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
Abstract: This document contains the slides for the crown fire portion of the fire behaviour short course presentation, outlined as follows: I. Introduction to Crown Fires; II. Understanding of Crown Fire Behavior From Experimental Fire and Wildfire Observations; III. Crown Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The foliar moisture content (FMC) of coniferous trees is estimated within the context of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System on the basis of an empirical method that is limited to the forest regions of Canada and immediately adjacent areas of the United States.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Verbyla, Rupp, McGuire, Murphy, Jandt, Barnes, Hoy, Duffy, Calef, Turetsky
A synthesis was carried out to examine Alaska's boreal forest fire regime. During the 2000s, an average of 767 000 ha x year-1 burned, 50% higher than in any previous decade since the 1940s. Over the past 60 years, there was a decrease in the number of lightning-ignited fires,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Mack
Predicting plant community responses to changing environmental conditions is a key element of forecasting and mitigating the effects of global change. Disturbance can play an important role in these dynamics, by initiating cycles of secondary succession and generating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Metsaranta
Climate change is expected to increase area burned in the boreal plains ecozone of Canada in the early 21st century (2001-50). I examined the influence of inter-annual variability in area burned and short observed time series on the probability of detecting if an increase has…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Kasischke, McGuire, Turetsky, Kane
Biomass burning in the Alaskan interior is already a major disturbance and source of carbon emissions, and is likely to increase in response to the warming and drying predicted for the future climate. In addition to quantifying changes to the spatial and temporal patterns of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical large-scale fires, including…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Renner
The Western Governors' Association's Forest Health Advisory Committee (FHAC) sought answers to questions on how large scale forest treatment collaboratives are doing throughout the West. They were particularly interested in finding out where groups of different stakeholders were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
Reinhardt et al. (E. Reinhardt, J. Scott, K. Gray, and R. Keane, Can. J. For. Res. 36: 2803?2814, 2006) questioned the validity of the regression equations for estimating canopy base heights in coniferous forest fuel types developed by Cruz et al. (M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
Cruz et al. (2003) developed regression equations for estimating canopy base height (CBH), canopy fuel load (CFL) and canopy bulk density (CBD) for use in assessing crown fire potential in four broad coniferous forest fuel types found in western North America. The Cruz et al. (…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim: In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Goldstein
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 suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Harmon, Birdsey, Giardina, Heath, Houghton, Jackson, McKinley, Morrison, Murray, Pataki, Skog
Forests play an important role in the U.S. and global carbon cycle, and carbon sequestered by U.S. forest growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The cycle of forest growth, death, and regeneration and the use of wood removed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou
The Desert Research Institute recently published a science brief describing the El Nino weather pattern and its relationship to fire risk and other land management concerns. The brief also introduces a new monthly El Nino risk mapping product that DRI helped to shape.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Sudden Oak Death Fourth Science Symposium provided a forum for current research on sudden oak death, caused by the exotic, quarantine pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum. Ninety submissions describing papers or posters on the following sudden oak death/P. ramorum topics are…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kyle, Theodori, Absher, Jun
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of residents' attachment to their homes and community on their willingness to adopt Firewise recommendations. Our sample was drawn from a population residing in the wildland-urban interface where the threat of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document summarizes the 2010 AFSC workshop. Topics included the Tanacross Shaded Fuel Break project, the Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment project, climate change in Alaska, fire mapping methods using SAR, and potential research needs in Alaska and the method of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel and fire managers perform fuel treatments to manage and restore ecosystems and protect resources. In order to plan effective fuel treatments that accomplish objectives, managers need to analyze fuel conditions and document the expected fire behavior and fire effects both…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire scientists and managers at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress offer their thoughts about the program's accomplishments, challenges, and future direction.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES