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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
Fires are the major natural disturbance in the boreal forest, and their frequency and intensity will likely increase as the climate warms. Terrestrial nutrients released by fires may be transported to boreal lakes, stimulating increased primary productivity, which may radiate…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kreye, Adams, Escobedo
Forests protect water quality by reducing soil erosion, sedimentation, and pollution; yet there is little information about the economic value of conserving forests for water quality protection in much of the United States. To assess this value, we conducted a meta-analysis of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beatty, Smith
Dynamic soil water repellency is a pending challenge in water repellency research. The dynamic change or temporal dependence of repellency is commonly expressed as the persistence of repellency. Persistence, or dynamic changes in contact angle, are however, difficult to directly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jean, Bouchard
Historical aerial photographs (from 1946 through 1983) were used to study and describe the nature and extent of changes in wetland vegetation of a section of the St. Lawrence River and to evaluate the relative importance of water level, fire, and vegetational development as…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Benscoter, Waddington
We examined the water balance of a forested ombrotrophic peatland and adjacent burned peatland in the boreal plain of western Canada over a 3-year period. Complete combustion of foliage and fine branches dramatically increased shortwave radiation inputs to the peat surface while…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Summary of the 2013 Western Arctic Caribou Herd Project in McCarthy’s Marsh, Seward Peninsula Alaska
The Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) has increased dramatically in size over the last forty years, from approximately 75,000 animals in 1970 to 490,000 in 2003, and is now estimated at approximately 348,000 (Dau 2005, Joly et al. 2006). With the increase in population size the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Vance-Borland, Burnett, Hummel, Creighton, Johnson, Jasny
Patterns of social interaction influence how knowledge is generated, communicated, and applied. Theories of social capital and organizational learning suggest that interactions within disciplinary or functional groups foster communication of knowledge, whereas interactions…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burney, Buhler
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacPhee
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hogenbirk, Wein
Drought and fire, which may increase in frequency and severity because of global warming, were simulated in mid-boreal wetlands by transplanting soil blocks upslope to a lower water table and by prescribed burns. In the 2 years after treatments were applied to seasonally flooded…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burke
The review of 'relocation, repatriation and translocation' (RRT's) of amphibians and reptiles by Dodd and Seigel (1991) provides a summary of the literature on the use of these techniques for conservation purposes. Basically, the question that they attempt to answer is given…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaefer, Pruitt
The effects of fire on the Aikens Lake population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were studied over a 2-year period. Quantity, quality, and accessibility of forages were determined in recently- burned (5-yr-old) habitats and compared to those in intermediate (37…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Niccolucci, Podolak, Moseley
This seminar is part of the Human-Side of Restoration Webinar Series.
This webinar delved into the restoration economy and discussed cost-benefit analysis and ways to use ecosystem services to pay for ecological restoration. We learned about a spreadsheet model to assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Kane, Gieck, Everett
Almost all biological activity in far north regions takes place within a shallow zone above the permafrost called the active layer. The active layer is the surficial layer of the soil system which thaws every summer. In Imnavait watershed, a small headwater watershed north of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bildstein, Bancroft, Dugan, Gordon, Erwin, Nol, Payne, Senner
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transporation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS