Fire effects on geomorphic processes

LA McGuire, BA Ebel, FK Rengers… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Fire-induced geomorphic changes, such as enhanced erosion and debris-flow activity, are
expected to increase with climate change owing to increases in fire activity and rainfall …

[PDF][PDF] Wildfire and landscape change

PM Santi, S Cannon, J DeGraff… - Treatise on …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Moody et al., 2013). Wildfire can also impart physical changes to soil structure (Badía and
Martí, 2003; Nyman et al., 2013), increasing its susceptibility to downslope movement. Fine …

Impacts of permeability uncertainty in a coupled surface‐subsurface flow model under perturbed recharge scenarios

NB Engdahl - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coupled simulations of surface and variably saturated subsurface flow, termed integrated
hydrologic models (IHMs), can provide powerful insights into the complex dynamics of …

Lateral geomorphic connectivity in a fluvial landscape system: Unraveling the role of confinement, biogeomorphic interactions, and glacial legacies

P Cienciala, AD Nelson, AD Haas, Z Xu - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
The rates at which sediment from the landscape is recruited to channel networks reflect
lateral geomorphic connectivity and have significant implications for biophysical river …

Elevational differences in hydrogeomorphic disturbance regime influence sediment residence times within mountain river corridors

NA Sutfin, E Wohl - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
High-elevation mountain streams are commonly viewed as erosive environments, but they
can retain sediment along river corridors for thousands of years. In 2013, an extreme flood …

The predominance of post‐wildfire erosion in the long‐term denudation of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico

CA Orem, JD Pelletier - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires can dramatically increase erosion rates over time scales on the order of several
years, yet few data firmly constrain the relative importance of post‐wildfire erosion in the …

Partitioned by process: Measuring post‐fire debris‐flow and rill erosion with Structure from Motion photogrammetry

NG Ellett, JL Pierce, NF Glenn - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
After wildfire, hillslope and channel erosion produce large amounts of sediment and can
contribute significantly to long‐term erosion rates. However, pre‐erosion high‐resolution …

Debris flows in southeast Australia linked to drought, wildfire, and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

P Nyman, ID Rutherfurd, PNJ Lane… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Between 2003 and 2013, drought, large wildfires, and record-breaking rainfall
contributed to debris flows in southeast Australia that appear to be unprecedented in spatial …

Biogeomorphic processes, spatial heterogeneity, and river corridor resilience to stand-killing wildfire

E Wohl, A Marshall, J Scamardo, S Rathburn - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We used field-based case studies to examine how spatial heterogeneity influences the
response of river corridors to changes in water and sediment fluxes after wildfire. Spatial …

Using tree-ring analysis to evaluate intra-eruptive lahar activity in the Nexpayantla Gorge, Popocatépetl volcano (central Mexico)

O Franco-Ramos, M Castillo, E Muñoz-Salinas - Catena, 2016 - Elsevier
Lahar activity is one of the most important processes capable of mobilizing large volumes of
sediment and producing devastating effects on human populations and infrastructure …