How does water yield respond to mountain  pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest?

Ren, Jianning; Adam, Jennifer C.; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Hanan, Erin J.; Tague, Christina L.; Liu, Mingliang; Kolden, Crystal A.; Abatzoglou, John T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4681-2021

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Research article

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31 Aug 2021

Research article |

| 31 Aug 2021

How does water yield respond to mountain pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest?

Jianning Ren, Jennifer C. Adam, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Erin J. Hanan, Christina L. Tague, Mingliang Liu, Crystal A. Kolden, and John T. Abatzoglou

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Data sets

Dataset for how does water yield respond to mountain pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest? J. Ren, J. Adam, J. A. Hicke, E. Hanan, N. Tague, M. Liu, C. Kolden, and J. T. Abatzoglou https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NE4QU

Model code and software

Coupled beetle effect model and RHESSys model J. Ren, J. Adam, J. A. Hicke, E. Hanan, N. Tague, M. Liu, C. Kolden, and J. T. Abatzoglou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5156688

Short summary

Mountain pine beetle outbreaks have caused widespread tree mortality. While some research shows that water yield increases after trees are killed, many others document no change or a decrease. The climatic and environmental mechanisms driving hydrologic response to tree mortality are not well understood. We demonstrated that the direction of hydrologic response is a function of multiple factors, so previous studies do not necessarily conflict with each other; they represent different conditions.