Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

Ecological droughts are deficits in soil–water availability that induce threshold-like ecosystem responses, such as causing altered or degraded plant-community conditions, which can be exceedingly difficult to reverse. However, ‘ecological drought’ can be difficult to define, let alone to quantify,...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Rory C O’Connor, Matthew J Germino, David M Barnard, Caitlin M Andrews, John B Bradford, David S Pilliod, Robert S Arkle, Robert K Shriver
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Subjects:	water deficit ecological drought sagebrush fire seeding open climate campaign
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab79e4