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EOS: Bark Beetles Cause Big Tree Die-Offs, but Streams Flow Steadily

Researchers survey snow in a beetle-infested watershed in Wyoming. Credit: Paul D. Brooks, University of Utah

10 Mar 2016
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Image: Researchers survey snow in a beetle-infested watershed in Wyoming. Credit: Paul D. Brooks, University of Utah [Click image to enlarge]

EOS article written by Lily Strelich features research conducted by CZO investigators and their colleagues, which shows that bark beetle epidemics that caused regional-scale tree mortality in many snowmelt-dominated headwater catchments of western North America does not result in annual stream flow increase as previously reported.

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People Involved

CZO
Non-CZO

B. E. Ewers - University of Wyoming, Laramie

E. D. Gutmann - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder

A. J. H. Meddens - University of Idaho, Moscow

D. E. Reed - University of Wyoming, Laramie

R. L. Scott - Southwest Watershed Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Tucson

A. J. Somor - University of Arizona, Tucson


Publications

2014

Increased evaporation following widespread tree mortality limits streamflow response. Biederman J.A., Harpold A.A., Gochis D.J., Ewers B.E., Reed D.E., Papuga S.A., and Brooks P.D. (2014): Water Resources Research 50(7): 5395–5409

2015

Recent tree die-off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected increases from historical studies. Biederman J.A., Somor A.J., Harpold A.A., Gutmann E.D., Breshears D.D., Troch P.A., Gochis D.J., Scott R.l., Meddens A.J.H., and Brooks P.D. (2015): Water Resources Research 51(12): 9775-9789

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