Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Wildfires increasingly impact western US fluvial networks

  • Grady Ball,
  • Peter Regier,
  • Ricardo González-Pinzón,
  • Justin Reale,
  • David Van Horn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22747-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The authors investigate the impacts of wildfires on fluvial networks in the western US. They find that wildfires directly impacted ~6% of the total stream length between 1984 and 2014. When longitudinal propagation was included, they estimate that wildfires affected ~11% of the total stream length.