ArticleNature communications2018
Burned forests impact water supplies.
Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Post-wildfire water quality and aquatic ecosystem response in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: science and monitoring gaps.Environmental research. Water · 2026Article
- Impact of current and warmer climate conditions on snow cover loss in burned forests.Science advances · 2025Article
- Fire influence on land-water interactions in aridland catchments.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Linking Fire, Food Webs, and Fish in Stream Ecosystems.Ecosystems (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Hydrologic responses to wildfires in western Oregon, USA.Journal of hydrology · 2024Article
- Upper limits for post-wildfire floods and distinction from debris flows.Science advances · 2024Article
- Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks.Science advances · 2023Review
- Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021Review
- Parsing Weather Variability and Wildfire Effects on the Post-Fire Changes in Daily Stream Flows : A Quantile-Based Statistical Approach and its Application.Water resources research · 2021Article
- An Ecological Perspective on Living with Fire in Ponderosa Pine Forests of Oregon and Washington: Resistance, Gone but not Forgotten.Trees, forests and people · 2021Article
- Pandemic spotlight on urban water quality.Ecological processes · 2020Article
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- Four-fold increase in solar forcing on snow in western U.S. burned forests since 1999.Nature communications · 2019Article
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8 authors.
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Abstract
Wildland fire impacts on surface freshwater resources have not previously been measured, nor factored into regional water management strategies. But, large wildland fires are increasing and raise concerns about fire impacts on potable water. Here we synthesize long-term records of wildland fire, climate, and river flow for 168 locations across the United States. We show that annual river flow changed in 32 locations, where more than 19% of the basin area was burned. Wildland fires enhanced annual river flow in the western regions with a warm temperate or humid continental climate. Wildland fires increased annual river flow most in the semi-arid Lower Colorado region, in spite of frequent droughts in this region. In contrast, prescribed burns in the subtropical Southeast did not significantly alter river flow. These extremely variable outcomes offer new insights into the potential role of wildfire and prescribed fire in regional water resource management, under a changing climate.
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