Groundwater Recharge in a Fire-Adapted, Semi-Arid Forest: A Watershed Water Balance Approach.

ABSTRACT: Climate change induced aridity and Euro-American settlement have altered the historical disturbance and flow regimes of large portions of the ponderosa pine forests of northern Arizona. The increased occurrence of high-severity wildfires due to these changes has led to the establishment of various forest restoration programs to protect the region's forests and their watersheds. In 2014, a paired-watershed monitoring project was implemented to compare the impacts of differing levels of forest thinning to watershed hydrology in seven experimental watersheds nested within the Upper Lake Mary (ULM) watershed in Arizona. This study expands the calibration phase of the ULM paired-watershed by synthesizing historic precipitation, surface runoff, groundwater recharge, soil moisture data, and evapo

SUBMITTER: Denver C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12435141 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature