Molecular insights and impacts of wildfire-induced soil chemical changes

AM Lopez, CCE Avila, JP VanderRoest… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfires act as important ecosystem controls and can benefit fire-adapted biomes by
promoting habitat heterogeneity, seed germination and disease control. However, the …

Wildfire induces changes in receiving waters: A review with considerations for water quality management

MJ Paul, SD LeDuc, MG Lassiter… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires have increased in frequency in many ecosystems, with implications for human
health and the environment, including water quality. Increased fire frequency and …

Warmer and drier fire seasons contribute to increases in area burned at high severity in western US forests from 1985 to 2017

SA Parks, JT Abatzoglou - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in burned area across the western United States (US) since the mid‐1980s have
been widely documented and linked partially to climate factors, yet evaluations of trends in …

Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States

TN Wasserman, SE Mueller - Fire Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Increases in fire activity and changes in fire regimes have been documented in
recent decades across the western United States. Climate change is expected to continue to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Landslides in a changing climate

SL Gariano, F Guzzetti - Earth-science reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Warming of the Earth climate system is unequivocal. That climate changes affect the stability
of natural and engineered slopes and have consequences on landslides, is also …

Impact of land uses, drought, flood, wildfire, and cascading events on water quality and microbial communities: A review and analysis

A Mishra, A Alnahit, B Campbell - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
The increase in dynamic interactions between climate and human activities threatens water
security in terms of water quantity and quality. Most water security studies have focused on …

The way forward: Can connectivity be useful to design better measuring and modelling schemes for water and sediment dynamics?

S Keesstra, JP Nunes, P Saco, T Parsons… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
For many years, scientists have tried to understand, describe and quantify water and
sediment fluxes, with associated substances like pollutants, at multiple scales. In the past …

Fire effects on soils: the human dimension

C Santín, SH Doerr - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support
natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic …

Contemporary wildfires are more severe compared to the historical reference period in western US dry conifer forests

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, K Blankenship… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dry conifer forests in the western US historically experienced frequent fire prior to European
American colonization. Mean fire return interval ranged from about 5–35 years, with the …