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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Seasonal and inter-annual variations in methyl mercury concentrations in zooplankton from boreal lakes impacted by deforestation or natural forest fires

Garcia, Carignan, Lean
We compared the effects of natural and anthropogenic watershed disturbances on methyl mercury (MeHg) concentration in bulk zooplankton from boreal Shield lakes. MeHg in zooplankton was monitored for three years in nine lakes impacted by deforestation, in nine lakes impacted by…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burning and cultivation effects on greenhouse gas emissions and nutrients in wetland soils from Saskatchewan, Canada

Nelson, Schoenau, Malhi, Gill
Wetland fringe areas in prairie agricultural landscapes may be subjected to burning of vegetation in autumn followed by cultivation in spring. The objective of this study was to examine the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O and CH4) emissions and plant nutrient (NO3, PO4 and SO4)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Carbon dioxide balance of a tropical peat swamp forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Hirano, Segah, Harada, Limin, June, Hirata, Osaki
Tropical peatlands, which coexist with swamp forests, have accumulated vast amounts of carbon as soil organic matter. Since the 1970s, however, deforestation and drainage have progressed on an enormous scale. In addition, El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drought and large…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Associations between watershed characteristics, runoff, and stream water quality: hypothesis development for watershed disturbance experiments and modeling in the Forest Watershed and Riparian Disturbance (FORWARD) project

Prepas, Burke, Whitson, Putz, Smith
The FORWARD project, based on the Boreal Plain of Alberta, was initiated to develop models to predict the influence of watershed disturbance on runoff and stream water quality. To generate hypotheses relating to watershed controls on streams in the presence and absence of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effects of fire on activities designed to increase carbon sequestration in the boreal forest

Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests. Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects. Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Climate-induced changes in the dissolved organic carbon budgets of boreal lakes

Schindler, Curtis, Bayley, Parker, Beaty, Stainton
During 20 years of climatic warming, drought and increased forest firesbetween 1970 and 1990, DOC concentrations declined by 15--25%in lakesof the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario, allowing increasedpenetration of both UV and photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interrelationships between hydrology and ecology in fire degraded tropical peat swamp forests

Wosten, Van der Berg, van Eijk, Gevers, Giesen, Hooijer, Idris, Leenman, Rais, Siderius, Silvius, Suryadiputra, Wibisono
Interrelationships between hydrology and ecology are established for the Air Hitam Laut watershed in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The developed relational diagram shows how modelled regional groundwater levels and flooding patterns are related to the occurrence of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hydrocarbon and elemental carbon signatures in a tropical wetland: biogeochemical evidence of forest fire and vegetation changes

Tareq, Tanoue, Tsuji, Tanaka, Ohta
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On-again off-again charcoal deposition in northern Great Plains lakes and its relation to prairie drought [abstract]

Brown, Clark, Grimm, Donovan, Mueller
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential effects of forest fire and storm flow on total mercury and methylmercury in sediments of an arid-lands reservoir

Caldwell, Canavan, Bloom
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecology of coarse woody debris in temperate ecosystems [literature review]

Harmon, Franklin, Swanson, Sollins, Gregory, Lattin, Anderson, Cline, Aumen, Sedell, Lienkaemper, Cromack, Cummins
Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surface water chemistry of burned and undisturbed watersheds on the Boreal Plain: an ecoregion approach

Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Chen
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human ecological intervention and the role of forest fires in human ecology

Caldararo
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Black carbon from the Mississippi River: quantities, sources, and potential implications for the global carbon cycle

Mitra, Bianchi, McKee, Sutula
Black carbon (BC) may be a major component of riverine carbon exported to the ocean, but its flux from large rivers is unknown. Furthermore, the global distribution of BC between natural and anthropogenic sources remains uncertain. We have determined BC concentrations in…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paleolimnological reconstruction of forest fire induced changes in lake biogeochemistry (Lac Francis, Abitibi, Quebec, Canada)

Enache, Prairie
Biogeochemical effects of fire events were analysed in a small humic kettle lake. Lac Francis (claybelt area. Abitibi, northwestern Quebec), using diatom-based quantitative inference models developed to reconstruct past pH. total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term perspectives on fire-climate-vegetation relationships in the north American boreal forest

Campbell, Flannigan
From the Introduction ... 'This chapter reviews the record of past and present North American boreal fire regimes at various time scales and how the relate to both climate and vegetation. From this review, we draw some possible conclusions regarding possible future fire regimes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impact of wildfire on stream nutrient chemistry and ecosystem metabolism in boreal forest catchments of interior Alaska

Betts, Jones
With climatic warming, wildfire occurrence is increasing in the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Loss of catchment vegetation during fire can impact streams directly through altered solute and debris inputs and changed light and temperature regimes. Over longer time scales,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Do changes in connectivity explain desertification?

Okin, Parsons, Herrick, Bestelmeyer, Peters, Fredrickson
Arid and semiarid regions cover more than 40% of Earths land surface. Desertification, or broadscale land degradation in drylands, is a major environmental hazard facing inhabitants of the world's deserts as well as an important component of global change. There is no unifying…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wetland succession in a permafrost collapse: interactions between fire and thermokarst

Myers-Smith, Harden, Wilmking, Fuller, McGuire, Chapin
To determine the influence of fire and thermokarst in a boreal landscape, we investigated peat cores within and adjacent to a permafrost collapse feature on the Tanana River Floodplain of Interior Alaska. Radioisotope dating, diatom assemblages, plant macrofossils, charcoal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of fire and permafrost on sub-arctic stream chemistry during storms

Petrone, Hinzman, Shibata, Jones, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mercury concentrations in fish from forest harvesting and fire-impacted Canadian boreal lakes compared using stable isotopes of nitrogen

Garcia, Carignan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of two semiarid grasslands to a second fire application

White, Pendleton, Pendleton
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Phytoplankton in boreal Subarctic lakes following enhanced phosphorus loading from forest fire: impacts on species richness, nitrogen and light limitation

McEachern, Prepas, Planas
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire effects on stream food webs and nutrient dynamics in Glacier National Park, USA

Spencer, Gabel, Hauer
We documented immediate and mid-term (5 years) impacts on streams from a large (15,500 ha) wildfire in northwestern Montana. Fire-related impacts were ecosystem-wide, extending from water chemistry to fish. During the initial firestorm, phosphorus and nitrogen levels increased 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wetland drying and succession across the Kenai Peninsula Lowlands, south-central Alaska

Klein, Berg, Dial
This study documents the scale and intensity of drying over the last half century in the Kenai Lowlands of south-central Alaska. Using historical aerial photos and field sampling of wetlands, including muskegs, kettle ponds, and closed and open basin lakes, we present data on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES