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ArticleBioscience2025

Fire influence on land-water interactions in aridland catchments.

Tamara K Harms, Heili Lowman, Joanna Blaszczak, Ashley Cale, Xiaoli Dong, Stevan Earl, Leah Gaines-Sewell, Julia Grabow, Erin Hanan, Marina Lauck and 5 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Tamara K HarmsEnvironmental Sciences Department at the University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7845-1109
Heili LowmanDuke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Joanna BlaszczakDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Science and at the Global Water Center, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5122-0829
Ashley CaleDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Science and at the Global Water Center, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3539-5209
Xiaoli DongDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3303-0735
Stevan EarlGlobal Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Tempe, Arizona, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4465-452X
Leah Gaines-SewellSchool of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States.
Julia GrabowSchool of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States.
Erin HananDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Science and at the Global Water Center, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6568-2936
Marina LauckSchool of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9032-0782
John MelackBren School of Environmental Science and Management and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0619-841X
Ann Marie ReinholdGianforte School of Computing at Montana State University, Boseman, Montana, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0411-3486
Betsy M SummersDepartment of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9106-1316
Alex J WebsterDepartment of Biology, both at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0908-4293
Nancy B GrimmSchool of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9374-660X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wildfires have increased in size, frequency, and intensity in arid regions of the western United States because of human activity, changing land use, and rising temperature. Fire can degrade water quality, reshape aquatic habitat, and increase the risk of high discharge and erosion. Drawing from patterns in montane dry forest, chaparral, and desert ecosystems, we developed a conceptual framework describing how interactions and feedbacks among material accumulation, combustion of fuels, and hydrologic transport influence the effects of fire on streams. Accumulation and flammability of fuels shift in opposition along gradients of aridity, influencing the materials available for transport. Hydrologic transport of combustion products and materials accumulated after fire can propagate the effects of fire to unburned stream-riparian corridors, and episodic precipitation characteristic of arid lands can cause lags, spatial heterogeneity, and feedbacks in response. Resolving uncertainty in fire effects on arid catchments will require monitoring across hydroclimatic gradients and episodic precipitation.

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accumulationcombustionpropagationstreamstransport

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PMID39911157
PMCPMC11791530

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