A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

SJ Prichard, PF Hessburg, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

[HTML][HTML] Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

JT Abatzoglou, DS Battisti, AP Williams… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has
heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires …

Ecosystem services provided by marine and freshwater phytoplankton

L Naselli-Flores, J Padisák - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Phytoplankton, the ecological group of microalgae adapted to live in apparent suspension in
water masses, is much more than an ecosystem's engineer. In this opinion paper, we use …

Climate change increases risk of extreme rainfall following wildfire in the western United States

D Touma, S Stevenson, DL Swain, D Singh… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Post-wildfire extreme rainfall events can have destructive impacts in the western United
States. Using two climate model large ensembles, we assess the future risk of extreme fire …

Wildfire impacts on surface water quality parameters: Cause of data variability and reporting needs

OD Raoelison, R Valenca, A Lee, S Karim… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surface runoff mobilizes the burned residues and ashes produced during wildfires and
deposits them in surface waters, thereby deteriorating water quality. A lack of a consistent …

[PDF][PDF] Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires

PE Higuera, MC Cook, JK Balch, EN Stavros… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Structure loss is an acute, costly impact of the wildfire crisis in the western
conterminous United States (“West”), motivating the need to understand recent trends and …

From burned slopes to streams: how wildfire affects nitrogen cycling and retention in forests and fire-prone watersheds

RN Gustine, EJ Hanan, PR Robichaud, WJ Elliot - Biogeochemistry, 2022 - Springer
Wildfire is a major driver of nitrogen (N) cycling and export from terrestrial to aquatic
systems. While fire is a natural process in many watersheds, it can still degrade water quality …

Does hot and dry equal more wildfire? Contrasting short‐and long‐term climate effects on fire in the Sierra Nevada, CA

MC Kennedy, RR Bart, CL Tague, JS Choate - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate and wildfire are closely linked. Climate regulates wildfire directly over short
timescales through its effect on fuel aridity and indirectly over long timescales through …

A review of speleothems as archives for paleofire proxies, with Australian case studies

M Campbell, L McDonough, PC Treble… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires affect 40% of the earth's terrestrial biome, but much of our knowledge of wildfire
activity is limited to the satellite era. Improved understanding of past fires is necessary to …