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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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, 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
Imbert, Delbe
The sawgrass Cladium jamaicense forms extensive, quite monospecific stands within coastal swamps of the Caribbean region. Fire acts as an important ecological factor in the control of vegetation dynamics in these marshes. In the archipelago of Guadeloupe, during the dry season,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gavin, Hu, Lertzman, Corbett
Forest fire occurrence is affected by multiple controls that operate at local to regional scales. At the spatial scale of forest stands, regional climatic controls may be obscured by local controls (e.g., stochastic ignitions, topography, and fuel loads), but the long-term role…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reeves, Bisson, Rieman, Benda
We reviewed the behavior of wildfire in riparian zones, primarily in the western United States, and the potential ecological consequences of postfire logging. Fire behavior in riparian zones is complex, but many aquatic and riparian organisms exhibit a suite of adaptations that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
Middleton, van Diggelen, Jensen
Question: How does seed dispersal reduce fen isolation and contribute to biodiversity? Location: European and North American fens. Methods: This paper reviews the literature on seed dispersal to fens. Results: Landscape fragmentation may reduce dispersal opportunities thereby…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on hydrological and geomorphological…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benscoter
Questions: What is the mechanism of bog ground layer colonization post-fire? Is species colonization stochastic or does facilitation occur? Location: Boreal bog peatland near Crow Lake, Alberta, Canada. Methods: Diaspore-addition treatments were applied in 2003 to autoclaved…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinner, Hu, Beer, Kaltenrieder, Scheurer, Krahenbuhl
Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal analyses of sediments from two Alaskan lakes provide new data for inferring Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change. The records span the past 14,700 years at Lost Lake, 240 m a.s.l., central Alaska, north of the Alaska Range and 9600…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
Brisson, Cogliastro, Robert
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Simard, Titman
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinner, Hu, Beer, Kaltenrieder, Scheurer, Krahenbuhl
Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal analyses of sediments from two Alaskan lakes provide new data for inferring Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change. The records span the past 14,700 years at Lost Lake, 240 m a.s.l., central Alaska, north of the Alaska Range and 9600…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Thompson
The condition of aquatic habitat and the health of aquatic species, particularly salmon, are a significant concern in the Pacific Northwest. Land management agencies use fish and riparian guidelines intended to maintain or improve aquatic habitat. Gauging whether or not those…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Samuels, Badadur, Monteith, Amstutz, Pickus, Parker, Ryan
This project involved the development of an information tool that gives Incident Commanders the critical information they need to make informed decisions regarding the consequences of threats to public water supply intakes.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrone, Hinzman, Jones, Shibata, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bisson, Lichatowich, Liss, Goodman, Coutant, McDonald, Lettenmeier, Loudenslager, Williams
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bisson, Montgomery, Buffington
Valley segments, stream reaches, and channel units are three hierarchically nested subdivisions of the drainage network (Frissell et al. 1986), falling in size between landscapes and watersheds (see Chapter 1) and individual point measurements made along the stream network (…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES