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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Gauthier, Boucher, Morissette, De Grandpré
Question: In the boreal forest of eastern Canada, how does forest vegetation change in the sustained absence of fire?Location: Eastern boreal forest in Quebec's North Shore region, Canada (49º30'-50º00'N; 67º30'-68º35'W).Methods: Aerial photos from three different periods (1930…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Figueroa-Rangel, Willis, Olvera-Vargas
Key questions for understanding the resilience and variability of Mexican Neotropical cloud forest assemblages in current and future climate change include: How have human disturbances and climate change affected the dynamics of the cloud forest assemblage? What are the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drobyshev, Simard, Bergeron, Hofgaard
The observed long-term decrease in the regional fire activity of Eastern Canada results in excessive accumulation of organic layer on the forest floor of coniferous forests, which may affect climate-growth relationships in canopy trees. To test this hypothesis, we related tree-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Kareiva, Armsworth
The full or partial acquisition of land remains a predominant focus of terrestrial conservation strategies. Non-governmental organizations play an important role in habitat protection, yet few studies investigate their contribution to conservation investment. Here we examine…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Surface fire spread potential in trembling aspen during summer in the Boreal Forest Region of Canada
In Canada, the importance of seasonality in forest fire danger rating associated with phenological changes in deciduous tree leaves and lesser ground vegetation has historically been taken into account by dividing the fire season into three distinct periods (i.e., spring, summer…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Sexton
From the text ... 'Managing wildland fire to achieve land and resource management goals continues to be riddled with misperceptions and misinformation, which have limited both programmatic growth and overall effectiveness. As more credibility has been placed on identifying best…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutton
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under stress, and make it available just when…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
From the text ... 'Some of today's firefighters weren't even born when the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) (Web site <">http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis>) 'hit the streets' in 1986. Managers might remember using a dial-up connection in the early 1990s to access…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scholz
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lasko
From the text ... 'A revision to the 2003 Interagency Strategy removes the distinction between wildland fire use and wildfire. This will enhance a fire manager's ability to implement Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy by allowing consideration of the full range of positive…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kwart, Warthin
From the Conclusion ... 'Managing naturally ignited wildfires specifically for natural resource benefits allows land managers to maintain the important role of fire across the Alaskan landscape even as they protect values at risk -- whether homes at the wildland-urban interface…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'All fires have risks, but we have developed sophisticated tools that will assist us in predicting what a fire will do.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weise, Wotton
This paper gives an overview of fire in the wildland-urban interface.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Russell, Lehmkuhl, Buckland, Saab
We quantified changes in density of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in response to prescribed fire in mixed coniferous forests of Idaho and Washington, USA, using a Before-After-Control-Impact design. We found no evidence that low-severity prescribed fires affected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Koptur, William, Olive
Honey baits were used to assess the activity and abundance of nectar-drinking ants in fire successional habitats of rocklands on Andros Island, Bahamas. Vegetation was sampled in pineyard and coppice habitats (the same communities as Florida's pine rocklands and hammocks),…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dietenberger
Effective mitigation of external fires on structures can be achieved flexibly, economically, and aesthetically by (1) preventing large-area ignition on structures by avoiding close proximity of burning vegetation; and (2) stopping flame travel from firebrands landing on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Etheridge, Kayahara, Bergeron
The differences between boreal forest landscapes produced by natural disturbance regimes and landscapes produced by harvesting are important and increasingly well documented. To continue harvesting operations while maintaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zinck, Johst, Grimm
How simple can a model be that still captures essential aspects of wildfire ecosystems at large spatial and temporal scales? The Drossel-Schwabl model (DSM) is a metaphorical forest-fire model developed to reproduce only one pattern of real systems: a frequency distribution of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
Aim There remains some uncertainty concerning the causes of extinctions of Madagascar's megafauna. One hypothesis is that they were caused by over-hunting by humans. A second hypothesis is that their extinction was caused by both environmental change and hunting. This paper…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Lickliter
Operant generalization has been demonstrated in neonates only recently. To investigate the development of intradimensional stimulus control immediately after hatching, northern bobwhite chicks (Colinus virginianus) pecked for brief heat presentations while hearing a high-pitched…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reyes, Kneeshaw, De Grandpré, Leduc
Questions: How does woody vegetation abundance and diversity differ after natural disturbances causing different levels of mortality?Location: Abies balsamea-Betula papyrifera boreal mixed-wood stands of southeast Quebec, Canada.Methods: Woody vegetation abundance and diversity…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meyn, Taylor, Flannigan, Thonicke, Cramer
Climate oscillations such as El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are known to affect temperature and precipitation regimes and fire in different regions of the world. Understanding the relationships between climate oscillations, drought, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS