Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks

MF Belongia, C Hammond Wagner, KQ Seipp… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Severe wildfire is altering the natural and the built environment and posing risks to
environmental and societal health and well-being, including cascading impacts to water …

Modeling Post‐Wildfire Hydrologic Response: Review and Future Directions for Applications of Physically Based Distributed Simulation

BA Ebel, ZM Shephard, MA Walvoord… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which
include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly …

Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply

AP Williams, B Livneh, KA McKinnon… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Streamflow often increases after fire, but the persistence of this effect and its importance to
present and future regional water resources are unclear. This paper addresses these …

Prolonged drought in a northern California coastal region suppresses wildfire impacts on hydrology

ME Newcomer, J Underwood… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires naturally occur in many landscapes, however they are undergoing rapid regime
shifts. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the most severe hydrological responses to …

[HTML][HTML] Medium-term associations of soil properties and plant diversity in a semi-arid pine forest after post-wildfire management

ME Gómez-Sánchez, M Navidi, R Ortega… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The medium-and long-term studies about the effectiveness of post-fire management
techniques on soil and plant ecology are scarce, although the effects of wildfire and …

Effects of prescribed fire on the post‐fire hydrological processes in agro‐forest ecosystems: A systematic review and a meta‐analysis

DA Zema, ME Lucas‐Borja - Hydrological Processes, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Prescribed fires are one of the most effective tools to reduce the risk of wildfires but this
treatment may negatively affect the hydrological and erosive response of soil, with …

A novel Budyko-based approach to quantify post-forest-fire streamflow response and recovery timescales

TB Hampton, NB Basu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent increases in the incidences of wildfires have necessitated the development of
methodologies to quantify the effect of these fires on streamflows. Climate variability has …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term impacts of wildfire and post-fire mulching on ecosystem multifunctionality in a semi-arid pine forest

MD Carmona-Yáñez, M Francos, I Miralles… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Straw and wood chips have been widely used as mulch materials to control post-fire erosion
in burned forests. However, their effects on ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) have been …

Compound post‐fire flood hazards considering infrastructure sedimentation

A Jong‐Levinger, T Banerjee, D Houston… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flood and debris hazards are heightened following wildfires, but are challenging to quantify
due to interdependence between fire frequency and severity, runoff and sediment fluxes …

Post-fire temporal trends in soil-physical and-hydraulic properties and simulated runoff generation: Insights from different burn severities in the 2013 Black Forest Fire …

BA Ebel, JA Moody, DA Martin - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Burn severity influences on post-fire recovery of soil-hydraulic properties controlling runoff
generation are poorly understood despite the importance for parameterizing infiltration …