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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The Forest Watershed and Riparian Disturbance study: a multi-discipline initiative to evaluate and manage watershed disturbance on the boreal plain of Canada

Smith, Prepas, Putz, Burke, Meyer, Whitson
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Geographically isolated wetlands of the United States

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

Responses of stream benthic macroinvertebrates to fire

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

Time, space, and episodicity of physical disturbance in streams

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

Wildfire in the southwestern USA: effects on fishes

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

The Greater Vancouver Water District -- an ecological inventory approach to fire hazard assessment and treatment for protection of water quality and other secondary values [poster abstract]

Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed managers with a better…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Greater Vancouver Water District -- an ecological inventory approach to fire hazard assessment and treatment for protection of water quality and other secondary values

Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests wildfire hazard-risk assessment

Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impact of wildfire on discharge and phosphorus export from the Sakwatamau watershed in the Swan Hills, Alberta, during the first two years

Prepas, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Chen, Millions, Serediak
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The late-Holocene paleohydrology of Pine Lake, Alberta: a multiproxy investigation

Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconstruction of Holocene climate change using multiproxy analysis of sediments from Pyramid Lake, British Columbia, Canada

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

Fire history reconstructions based on sediment records from lakes and wetlands

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

Saltcedar invasion of western riparian areas: impacts and new prospects for control

Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Area burned reconstruction and measurement: a comparison of methods

Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Watersheds and wildfires: a view of the Cerro Grande fire [abstract]

Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire impacts on phytoplankton communities of three small lakes on the boreal plain, Alberta, Canada: a paleolimnological study

Charette, Prepas
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of wildfire ash on water chemistry and biota in South-Western USA streams

Earl, Blinn
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Coastal rainforest connections disclosed through a late quaternary vegetation, climate, and fire history investigation from the mountain hemlock zone on southern Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada

Brown, Hebda
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The early impact of adjacent clearcutting and forest fire on riparian zone vegetation in northwestern Ontario

Lamb, Mallik, Mackereth
[no description entered]
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The simulation of landscape fire, climate, and ecosystem dynamics

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

Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress

Gorte
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic

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

A biogenic-silica delta δ18O record of climatic change during the last glacial-interglacial transition in southwestern Alaska

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

Records of aquatic pollen and sediment properties as indicators of late-Quaternary Alaskan lake levels

Edwards, Bigelow, Finney, Eisner
We investigated whether techniques developed to evaluate qualitative lake-level changes in the temperate zone can be used in sub-arctic and arctic Alaska. We focused on aquatic pollen records and sediment properties (loss-on-ignition and magnetic susceptibility) from centrally-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Impact of wildfire on discharge and phosphorus export from the Sakwatamau watershed in the Swan Hills, Alberta, during the first two years

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