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Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications for forest change

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The magnitude and spatial patterns of historical and future hydrologic change in California's watersheds

(2015) James H. Thorne et al.   Ecosphere

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

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Modelling how vegetation cover affects climate change impacts on streamflow timing and magnitude in the snowmelt-dominated upper Tuolumne Basin, Sierra Nevada

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Simulating High-Elevation Hydropower with Regional Climate Warming in the West Slope, Sierra Nevada

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The sensitivity of forest water use to the timing of precipitation and snowmelt recharge in the California Sierra: Implications for a warming climate

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Forest mortality in high-elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests of eastern California, USA; influence of environmental context, bark beetles, climatic water deficit, and warming

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Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

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Modeling approaches to estimate effective leaf area index from aerial discrete-return LIDAR

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(2009) Kaveh Madani et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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(2008) Sara A. Rauscher et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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