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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith, Prepas, Putz, Burke, Meyer, Whitson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tiner
While many wetlands form along floodplains of rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries, others have developed in depressions far removed from such waters. Depressional wetlands completely surrounded by upland have traditionally been called 'isolated wetlands.' Isolated wetlands are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Minshall
Synthesis of published research on the responses of stream benthic macroinvertebrates to fire in western United States indicates a consistent pattern of response that can guide resource management and future research. Direct effects of fire generally are minor or indiscernible.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Luce, Benda
Storm-driven episodes of gully erosion and landsliding produce large influxes of sediment to stream channels that have both immediate, often detrimental, impacts on aquatic communities and long-term consequences that are essential in the creation and maintenance of certain…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rinne
Until recently, the effects of wildfire on aquatic ecosystems in the southwestern USA have been given little attention. Wildfires in the early 90s and their impact on threatened and endangered fishes and their habitats increased concern for this management issue. In summer 2002…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prepas, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Chen, Millions, Serediak
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neary, Gottfried
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mazzucchi, Spooner, Gilbert, Osborn
Sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, an alpine tarn in the Cassiar Mountains of northwestern British Columbia, were investigated for changes in pollen, plant macro-fossils, charcoal, and clastic sediment, which are used to infer changes in climate throughout the Holocene.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Anderson
From the text ... 'Our experience in conducting fire history studies comes from regions with natural lakes and wetlands. Lake sites are used for most stratigraphic fire history studies, and our understanding of charcoal deposition and burial (i.e., charcoal taphonomy) comes from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Xenopoulos, Schindler
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Sinclair, Cuddy
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLin, Springer, Lane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Short-term response of woody plants to fire in a Rio Grande riparian forest, central New Mexico, USA
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinrichs, Hebda, Walker
The vegetation and natural disturbance history of the Mount Kobau area, in the Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) - subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.) (ESSF) forest of southern British Columbia, was reconstructed using pollen, plant macrofossils,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Carey, Beeson, Gard, Lane
A profile-based, analytical hillslope erosion model (HEM) is integrated into a geographical information system (GIS) framework to provide a tool to assess the impact of the Cerro Grande fire on erosion and sediment delivery to the many streams draining the burn area. The model,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saab, Vierling
Lewis*s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) has been characterized as a "burn specialist” because of its preference for nesting within burned pine forests. No prior study, however, has demonstrated the relative importance of crown-burned forests to this woodpecker species by examining…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Charette, Prepas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Earl, Blinn
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Hebda
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lamb, Mallik, Mackereth
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Finney
From the Conclusion ... 'A comprehensive, mechanistic simulation of wildland fire and ecosystem dynamics across a landscape may not be possible because of computer limitations, inadequate research, inconsistent data, and extensive parameterization. Therefore empirical and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Kaufman, Yoneji, Nelson, Shemesh, Huang, Tian, Bond, Clegg, Brown
High-resolution analyses of lake sediment from southwestern Alaska reveal cyclic variations in climate and ecosystems during the Holocene. These variations occurred with periodicities similar to those of solar activity and appear to be coherent with time series of the cosmogenic…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Shemesh
Despite growing evidence for environmental oscillations during the last glacial-interglacial transition from high latitude, terrestrial sites of the North Pacific rim, oxygen-isotopic records of these oscillations remain sparse. The lack of data is due partially to the paucity…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bobbe, Lachowski, Maus, Greer, Dull
The use of information based upon remotely sensed data is a central factor in our 21st Century society. Scientists in land management agencies especially require accurate and current geospatial information to effectively implement ecosystem management. The increasing need to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prepas, Chen, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Millions, Serediak
Water and phosphorus (P) exports during the peakflow season increased after a fire in early summer 1998 burned 89% of an upland watershed on the Boreal Plain of western Canada. The change in water export between pre- (1983) and post-fire (1998 to 2000) periods was higher in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES