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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Composts as post-fire erosion control treatments and their effect on runoff water quality

Crohn, Chaganti, Reddy
Erosion from fire-damaged wildlands poses a significant water quality concern. Deprived of vegetation, runoff intensifies, which escalates exports of sediments and other pollutants. Used as mulches, composts shield the soil surface and reduce runoff by absorbing water and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Discriminating fine sediment sources and the application of sediment tracers in burned catchments: a review

Smith, Blake, Owens
Wildfire can cause substantial changes to runoff, erosion and downstream sediment delivery processes. In response to these disturbance effects, the main sources of sediment transported within burned catchments may also change. Sediment tracing offers an approach to determine the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sediment transport in a small stream following two successive forest fires

Beaty
The transport of stream bedload sediment was monitored continuously in a small stream from 1975 to 1982 following forest fires in 1974 and 1980. The stream is located in the east subcatchment (170 ha) of Lake 239 in the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential impacts of global climate changes on wildfire activity in the USA

Qu, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computing land use emissions of greenhouse gases

Kreileman, Bouwman
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Collected abstracts for AGU chapman conference: synthesizing empirical results to improve predictions of post-wildfire runoff and erosion responses

Post-wildfire science is generally not recognized as a discipline in its own right, so the intention of this Chapman Conference is to bring together experts from the field of post-wildfire research, the meteorological and hydrological modeling field, other fields of related…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Anticipating stream ecosystem responses to climate change: toward predictions that incorporate effects via land-water linkages

Davis, Baxter, Rosi-Marshall, Pierce, Crosby
Climate change (CC) is projected to increase the frequency and severity of natural disturbances (wildfires, insect outbreaks, and debris flows) and shift distributions of terrestrial ecosystems on a global basis. Although such terrestrial changes may affect stream ecosystems,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Altered composition and microbial versus UV-mediated degradation of dissolved organic matter in boreal soils following wildfire

Blodau, Olefeldt, Turetsky
Production, transport, and degradation of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) influence carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in both soils and downstream aquatic ecosystems. Here, we assessed the impacts of wildfire on DOM production, composition, and reactivity (…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Fire and water: new perspectives on fire's role in shaping wetland ecosystems

Osborne, Kobziar, Inglett
This special issue of Fire Ecology is dedicated to furthering scientific understanding of the role fire plays in the development and functioning of wetland ecosystems. While not initially intuitive, the concept of fire exerting significant influence on how wetland environments…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Surface water dynamics of shallow lakes following wildfire in boreal Alaska

Altmann
Wildfire is ubiquitous to interior Alaska and is the primary large-scale disturbance regime affecting thawing permafrost and ecosystem processes in boreal forests. Since surface and near surface hydrology is strongly affected by permafrost occurrence, and wildfire can consume…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Waterfowl production and effects of fire on wetlands in the Pah River Flats

Jandt, Morkill
Waterfowl brood surveys were conducted in the Pah River Flats, Alaska during July of 1993. Although spring flooding was extensive, duck production was greater than previous estimates from 1989. A large portion of the study area had burned in a lightning-caused wildfire in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Amphibians in fire-prone landscapes: What information is needed?

O'Donnell
From The Effects of Wildland Fire and Fire Management on Amphibians and Reptiles symposium at The Wildlife Society's 20th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI on October 7, 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Reorganization of vegetation, hydrology and soil carbon after permafrost degradation across heterogeneous boreal landscapes

Jorgenson, Harden, Kanevskiy, O'Donnell, Wickland, Ewing, Manies, Zhuang, Shur, Striegl, Koch
The diversity of ecosystems across boreal landscapes, successional changes after disturbance and complicated permafrost histories, present enormous challenges for assessing how vegetation, water and soil carbon may respond to climate change in boreal regions. To address this…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS