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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
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
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
Hallema, Kinoshita, Martin, Robinne, Galleguillos, McNulty, Sun, Singh, Mordecai, Moore
The changing role of fire in forest landscapes shows that strategic forest management is necessary to safeguard urban water supplies.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harper, Santín, Doerr, Froyd, Albini, Otero, Viñas, Pérez-Fernández
It is well established in the world’s fire-prone regions that wildfires can considerably change the hydrological dynamics of freshwater catchments. Limited research, however, has focused on the potential impacts of wildfire ash toxicity on aquatic biota. Here, we assess the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rhoades, Nunes, Silins, Doerr
This short paper provides the framework and introduction to this special issue of International Journal of Wildland Fire. Its eight papers were selected from those presented at two consecutive conferences held in 2018 in Europe and the USA that focussed on the impacts of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hohner, Summers, Rosario-Ortiz
Wildfires can abruptly transform forests, char vegetation and soils, and create an environment susceptible to postfire erosion and runoff to nearby surface waters serving as potable water supplies. The rising trend in wildfire activity increases the risk to source waters, while…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hohner, Rhoades, Wilkerson, Rosario-Ortiz
Wildfires are a natural part of most forest ecosystems, but due to changing climatic and environmental conditions, they have become larger, more severe, and potentially more damaging. Forested watersheds vulnerable to wildfire serve as drinking water supplies for many urban and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carey, Abbott, Rocha
Rapid climate change at high latitudes is projected to increase wildfire extent in tundra ecosystems by up to five‐fold by the end of the century. Tundra wildfire could alter terrestrial silica (SiO2) cycling by restructuring surface vegetation and by deepening the seasonally‐…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baghdikian
The purpose of this document is to outline the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) wildland fire priorities and coordinate the EPA Office of Research and Development’s (ORD’s) wildland-fire-related research across multiple National Research Programs (NRPs) to be…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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