Universal hydrological trends post-wildfire are obscured by local watershed variability

Changing wildfire regimes in recent decades have prompted extensive investigation into their hydrological impact. However, contradictory findings on post-fire flow regime changes have highlighted the complexity of this relationship. This study considers rich daily-resolution hydrological data on 898...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Brian Brown, Caleb Crandall, Andrea Betterle, Jeffrey Brown, Samuel B St Clair, David Grimsman, Camille Minaudo, Travis Tyler, Benjamin M Jones, Sean Warnick, Jordan Maxwell, Benjamin W Abbott
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Subjects:	catchment hydrology wildfire disturbance hydrology watershed river flow runoff ratio
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae114d

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