Restoring a Natural Fire Regime Alters the Water Balance of a Sierra Nevada Catchment

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The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions

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Hydrologic responses to restored wildfire regimes revealed by soil moisture-vegetation relationships

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Estimating evapotranspiration change due to forest treatment and fire at the basin scale in the Sierra Nevada, California

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Bayesian analyses of seventeen winters of water vapor fluxes show bark beetles reduce sublimation

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Vegetation change during 40 years of repeated managed wildfires in the Sierra Nevada, California

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Forest thinning impacts on the water balance of Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer headwater basins

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Managed Wildfire Effects on Forest Resilience and Water in the Sierra Nevada

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Hydrologic effects of large southwestern USA wildfires significantly increase regional water supply: fact or fiction?

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Using one year post-fire fire severity assessments to estimate longer-term effects of fire in conifer forests of northern and eastern California, USA

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Variability in vegetation and surface fuels across mixed-conifer-dominated landscapes with over 40 years of natural fire

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Snowmelt rate dictates streamflow

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Wildfire and Spatial Patterns in Forests in Northwestern Mexico: The United States Wishes It Had Similar Fire Problems

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Effect of Tree-to-Shrub Type Conversion in Lower Montane Forests of the Sierra Nevada (USA) on Streamflow

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Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns

(2015) Van R. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Does soil burn severity affect the post-fire runoff and interrill erosion response? A review based on meta-analysis of field rainfall simulation data

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Wildfire and the Future of Water Supply

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(2013) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Effects of changes in winter snowpacks on summer low flows: case studies in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

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Modeling increases in snowmelt yield and desynchronization resulting from forest gap-thinning treatments in a northern mountain headwater basin

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Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: A global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling

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Evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient in California's Sierra Nevada

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Quantification of incoming all-wave radiation in discontinuous forest canopies with application to snowmelt prediction

(2011) Robert R. Lawler et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

How evaporative water losses vary between wet and dry water years as a function of elevation in the Sierra Nevada, California, and critical factors for modeling

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Hydrological minimal model for fire regime assessment in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2011) Nadia Ursino et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

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Effects of wildfire on catchment runoff response: a modelling approach to detect changes in snow-dominated forested catchments

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Stand-replacing patches within a ‘mixed severity’ fire regime: quantitative characterization using recent fires in a long-established natural fire area

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How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment?

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Modelling the long term water yield impact of wildfire and other forest disturbance in Eucalypt forests

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Modeling soil depth from topographic and land cover attributes

(2009) Teklu K. Tesfa et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Groundwater dynamics mediate low-flow response to global warming in snow-dominated alpine regions

(2009) Christina Tague et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Modeling snow accumulation and ablation processes in forested environments

(2009) Konstantinos M. Andreadis et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Interactions Among Wildland Fires in a Long-Established Sierra Nevada Natural Fire Area

(2008) Brandon M. Collins et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Spatial patterns of simulated transpiration response to climate variability in a snow dominated mountain ecosystem

(2008) Lindsey Christensen et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Automated algorithm for mapping regions of cold-air pooling in complex terrain

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