The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

Interest in ecosystem services has grown tremendously among a wide range of sectors,
including government agencies, NGO's and the business community. Ecosystem services …

Declining mountain snowpack and earlier snowmelt across the western United States has
implications for downstream communities. We present a possible mechanism linking …

Analyzing the impacts of climate change on hydrology and future projections of water
supplies is fundamental for the efficient management and planning of water resources in …

Abstract The western United States is a region long defined by water challenges. Climate
change adds to those historical challenges, but does not, for the most part, introduce entirely …

Changes in tree growth rates can affect tree mortality and forest feedbacks to the global
carbon cycle. As air temperature increases, evaporative demand also increases, increasing …

Broad-scale studies of climate change effects on freshwater species have focused mainly on
temperature, ignoring critical drivers such as flow regime and biotic interactions. We use …

This study evaluates the sensitivity of Washington State's freshwater habitat of Pacific
Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) to climate change. Our analysis focuses on summertime …

Calibration is an essential step for improving the accuracy of simulations generated using
hydrologic models. A key modeling decision is selecting the performance metric to be …

The impacts of future climate change on water balance for the headwater basins of six major
rivers in the Tibetan Plateau are assessed using the well-established VIC-glacier land …