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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

Displaying 76 - 100 of 441

Soil and water properties

Wright, Bailey
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of fire in land/water interactions

Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management of seasonally flooded impoundments for wildlife

Frederickson, Taylor
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecology of salt marshes and sand dunes

Ranwell
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impact of harvesting on forest environments and resources: a review of the literature and evaluation of research needs

Bell, Beckett, Hubbard
This review summarizes the available literature relevant to British Columbia concerning the influences of harvesting and post-harvest practices upon the forest environment and resources, and points out significant gaps in knowledge where research would be useful. This will aid…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spread, impact, and control of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in North America wetlands

Thompson, Stuckey, Thompson
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bushfire hydrology--the case of the leaking watersheds

Daniell, Kulik
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological restoration as a strategy for conserving biological diversity

Jordan, Peters, Allen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bibliography on the effects of prescribed burning and mammal and waterfowl utilization of wetlands: annotated literature search with selected abstracts

Rutkosky
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of wildland fire on runoff and erosion using the automated geospatial watershed assessment tool

Guertin, Goodrich, Burns, Sheppard, Patel, Clifford, Unkrich, Kepner, Levick
Functionality has been incorporated into the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (AGWA) to assess the impacts of wildland fire on runoff and erosion. AGWA (https://www.epa.gov/water-research/automated-geospatial-watershed-assess... or www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa) is a…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Resilience of lake biogeochemistry to boreal-forest wildfires during the late Holocene

Chipman, Hu
Novel fire regimes are expected in many boreal regions, and it is unclear how biogeochemical cycles will respond. We leverage fire and vegetation records from a highly flammable ecoregion in Alaska and present new lake-sediment analyses to examine biogeochemical responses to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air [Chapter 7]

Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long run forest fire danger index

Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Detection of burned peat swamp forest in a heterogeneous tropical landscape: a case study of the Klias Peninsula, Sabah, Malaysia

Phua, Tsuyuki, Lee, Sasakawa
Remote sensing plays an important role in providing an estimate of burned areas for fire management. However, detecting burned areas in the tropics is a difficult task due to the heterogeneous landscape and rapidly changing land cover. The Klias Peninsula contains the largest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wetland use by white-winged scoters (Melanitta fusca) in the Mackenzie Delta region

Haszard, Clark
Reasons for apparent declines in populations of white-winged scoters (Melanitta fusca) in the northern boreal forest are not well understood, but some evidence suggests factors associated with the breeding grounds may be responsible. Climate warming or increased forest fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Charcoal morphotypes in lake sediments from British Columbia (Canada): an assessment of their utility for the reconstruction of past fire and precipitation

Enache, Cumming
Quantitative analysis of variations in morphological types of charcoal were undertaken in sediment cores from three lakes on the Interior Plateau (BC, Canada) over the period AD 1919-2000. Seven distinct morphological types of charcoal were identified based on particle shape and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanical thinning impacts on runoff, infiltration, and sediment yield following fuel reduction treatments in a southwestern dry mixed conifer forest

Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and recreation values in fire-prone forests: exploring an intertemporal amenity function using pooled RP-SP data

Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of habitat management treatments on plant community composition and biomass in a montane wetland

Austin, Keough, Pyle
Grazing and burning are commonly applied practices that can impact the diversity and biomass of wetland plant communities. We evaluated the vegetative response of wetlands and adjacent upland grasslands to four treatment regimes (continuous idle, fall prescribed burning followed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the northwestern US based on lake-sediment studies

Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term fire history from alluvial fan sediments: the role of drought and climate variability, and implications for management of Rocky Mountain forests

Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An ecosystem approach to determining effects on prescribed fire on southwestern Borderlands oak savannas: a baseline study

Gottfried, Neary, Ffolliott
Many traditional land management activities and supporting research have concentrated on one or two resources, with limited evaluations of interactions among other potential values. An ecosystem approach to land management requires an evaluation of the blend of physical and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fires in temperate peatlands (Southern Quebec): past and recent trends

Lavoie, Pellerin
In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands (bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and recent fire-free intervals (time interval between two consecutive fires) were compared using…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil degradation monitoring by remote sensing: examples with three degradation processes

Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influences of disturbance and vegetation on abundance of native and exotic detritivores in a southwestern riparian forest

Smith, Kelly, Finch
Detritivores play important roles in energy and nutrient flow in riparian ecosystems. Endemic crickets (Gryllus alogus Rehn) and exotic isopods (Armadillidium vulagare Latreille and Porcellio laevi Latreille.) are abundant detritivores in riparian forest floors of central New…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS