ArticleWater resources research2022
Wildfire Induces Changes in Receiving Waters: A Review With Considerations for Water Quality Management.
Article in Water resources research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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- Elucidating the Impact of Wildfire Molecular Tracers on Nitrous Acid (HONO) Production from Aqueous Nitrate Photochemistry.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
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- Fire retardants are an overlooked source of phosphorus to western US ecosystems.ACS ES&T water · 2025Article
- Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Comparative Assessment of the Impacts of Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Ash on Growth of the DiatomNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mitigating Wildfire Impact on Water Quality through Climate-Based Financing: A Case Study of the Provo River Watershed.ACS ES&T water · 2025Article
- Intersection of Wildfire and Legacy Mining Poses Risks to Water Quality.Environmental science & technology · 2025Review
- Linking Fire, Food Webs, and Fish in Stream Ecosystems.Ecosystems (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Dynamic responses of gut microbiota to agricultural and wildfire ash: insights from different amphibian developmental stages.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Fire influence on land-water interactions in aridland catchments.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Hydrogels and Their Functionalization-Analysis of the Possibility of Their Application in Post-Fire Water Treatment Processes.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Wildfires have increased in frequency in many ecosystems, with implications for human health and the environment, including water quality. Increased fire frequency and urbanization also raise the prospect of fires burning into urban areas, mobilizing pollutants few have considered to date. As a result, water quality managers lack information to anticipate, respond to and potentially mitigate wildfire impacts. Here, we reviewed the scientific literature to assess wildfire effects on response endpoints of a conceptual model linking fire to water quality, quantifying response directionality, magnitude and duration. Physically, water yield, sediments, and temperature all increased post-fire. Chemically, nutrients, ions, organic chemicals, and metals increased in burned watersheds, sometimes by orders of magnitude over pre-fire or reference conditions. In select cases, post-fire concentrations exceeded aquatic life criteria or drinking water standards, at times even in the finished drinking water. Biological assemblages commonly declined after post-fire runoff events. The duration of effects was less than 5 yr for most endpoints (e.g., metals) on average following fire, although effects did extend 15 yr or more in some individual cases. We found only a few studies on pollutants mobilized from wildfire impacted urban areas with benzene contamination in drinking water and high metal concentrations in ash prominent exceptions. Overall, this review provides a resource for understanding wildfire impacts on water quality endpoints, with the goal of informing the response of managers and other decision makers to this growing problem.
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