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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Post-Fire Water Quality Impacts

Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Streamwater quality as affected by wild fires in natural and manmade vegetation in Malaysian Borneo

Malmer
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Should riparian buffers be part of forest management based on emulation of natural disturbance?

Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Applying RUSLE 2.0 on burned-forest lands: an appraisal

Gonzalez-Bonorino, Osterkamp
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A geospatial dataset providing first-order indicators of wildfire risks to water supply in Canada and Alaska

Robinne
First-order, high level indicators of wildfire risk to water resources are paramount to understand growing wildfire-related water security challenges in Canada and Alaska. Information pertaining to forest cover, fire activity, water availability, and location of populated places…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wildfire impacts on hydrologic ecosystem services in North American high-latitude forests: a scoping review

Robinne, Hallema, Bladon, Buttle
High-latitude forests of North America are characterized by their natural dependence on large and severe wildfires. However, these wildfires also pose a range of social, economic, and environmental risks, with growing concern regarding persistent effects on stream flow volume,…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wildfires and Resulting Impacts to Water Bodies Used as Drinking Water Sources

Chow, Rosario-Ortiz, Kasprzyk
Detritus material in forest watersheds is the major terrestrial source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors in water bodies used as drinking water sources and is also a fuel that can ignite wildfires. In these watersheds, hot temperatures…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Prescribed fire effects on sediment and nutrient exports in forested environments: a review

Klimas, Hiesl, Hagan, Park
This review examines the impact of prescribed fire on the water quality variables (a) sediment load and (b) limiting macronutrients in forested environments globally. We aim to characterize the forested environments subject to prescribed fire, to discuss factors of the fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Multi-proxy lake sediment records at the northern and southern boundaries of the aspen parkland region of Manitoba, Canada [abstract]

Teed, Camill, Umbanhowar, Geiss, Murphy, Dorr
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of annual cicadas to wildfire in a southwestern riparian forest [abstract]

Smith, Kelly, Finch
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seed banks of native and exotic grasses and potential for vegetation recovery following wildfire [abstract]

Hunter, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Charcoal production, dispersal, and deposition from the Fort Providence experimental fire: interpreting fire regimes from charcoal records in boreal forests

Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Climatic and landscape controls of the boreal forest fire regime: Holocene records from Alaska

Lynch, Hollis, Hu
1) The response of ecosystems to past and future climatic change is difficult to understand due to the uncertainties in the direction and magnitude of changes and the relative importance of interactions between climate and local factors. In boreal ecosystems such interactions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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

Effects of wildfire on soils and watershed processes

Ice, Neary, Adams
Wildfire can cause water repellency and consume plant canopy, surface plants and litter, and structure-enhancing organics within soil. Changes in soil moisture, structure, and infiltration can accelerate surface runoff, erosion, sediment transport, and deposition. Intense…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS