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Attributing the U.S. Southwest's Recent Shift Into Drier Conditions

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Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands

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Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity

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The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West

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How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?

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A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

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Enhanced precipitation variability decreases grass- and increases shrub-productivity

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Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

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Historical and National Perspectives on Extreme West Coast Precipitation Associated with Atmospheric Rivers during December 2010

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Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland

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Prolonged Dry Episodes over the Conterminous United States: New Tendencies Emerging during the Last 40 Years

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Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

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