Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges Author / Editor: Mike Stone, Adrian Collins & Martin Thoms
Publication Number: 354
ISBN Number: 978-1-907161-32-2
Year: 2012
Pages: 124 Price: £40.00 There is increasing global concern over the impacts of landscape disturbance by wildfire on a range of aquatic ecosystem services and drinking water supply. Profound and often irreversible changes in river ecosystem function, geomorphology, water quality and water supply occur due to the severity and magnitude of wildfire-related landscape disturbance. Such impacts have important management implications for source water supply and protection at the catchment scale.
Themes addressed in this volume include: (1) impacts of wildfire on hillslope hydrology, (2) effects of wildfire on the physical, chemical and biological composition of soils, (3) changes in sediment transport dynamics and yields resulting from wildfires, (4) methodologies used to evaluate the provenance and fate of wildfire impacted sediments and associated contaminants, (5) prediction of hydrological and sediment transport recovery trajectories at the local and catchment scale, (6) impacts of wildfire on aquatic ecology, (7) post-fire sedimentation and water quality impacts in reservoirs, and (8) management actions to reduce the impact of wildfires on river ecosystems. Contents for Wildfire and Water Quality: Processes, Impacts and Challenges | Title | Pages | File | Preface by M. Stone et al.
Stone, M. et al. | v-vi |  | The effects of wildfire on sediment-associated phosphorus forms in the Crowsnest River basin, Alberta, Canada
Don Allin, Micheal Stone, Uldis Silins, Monica B. Emelko & Adrian L. Collins | 1-8 | | The applicability of black carbon for tracing soil erosion: fire impacts on landscape dynamics in Cyprus
Jens Brauneck & Manfred Lange | 9-16 | | Suspended sediment yield following wildfires in a mixed species eucalypt forest, southeastern Australia
Deirdre Dragovich, Ashley A. Webb & Reza Jamshidi | 17-24 | | Sediment yields and water quality effects of severe wildfires in southern British Columbia
Peter Jordan | 25-35 | | The effect of in-stream wood structures on fine sediment storage in headwater streams of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Kathleen Little, Mike Stone & Uldis Silins | 36-41 | | Hillslope erosion and post-fire sediment trapping at Mount Bold, South Australia
Rowena Morris, Deirdre Dragovich & Bertram Ostendorf | 42-50 | | Effects of flow regime on stream turbidity and suspended solids after wildfire, Colorado Front Range
Sheila F. Murphy, R. Blaine McCleskey & Jeffrey H. Writer | 51-58 | | Fire and sediment in an upland stream in Hong Kong
Mervyn. R. Peart, Lincoln Fok & Ronald. D. Hill | 59-65 | | Changes in benthic community structure and function in an Australian regulated upland stream following wildfire
Michael A. Reid & Martin C. Thoms | 66-74 | | Wildfire impacts on stream sedimentation: re-visiting the Boulder Creek Burn in Little Granite Creek, Wyoming, USA
Sandra Ryan & Kathleen Dwire | 75-80 | | Application of sediment tracers to discriminate sediment sources following wildfire
Hugh G. Smith, William H. Blake & Philip N. Owens | 81-89 | | Double trouble: the influence of wildfire and flow regulation on fine sediment accumulation in the Cotter River, Australia
Mark Southwell & Martin Thoms | 90-98 | | The issue below the surface: wildfire, riverbed sediments and flow regulation
Martin C. Thoms | 99-107 | | Reducing wildfire risk in water supply catchments using payments for ecosystem services
Ashley A. Webb | 108-116 | | Effects of wildfire on source-water quality and aquatic ecosystems, Colorado Front Range
Jeffrey H. Writer, R. Blaine McCleskey & Sheila F. Murphy | 117-122 | |
| |
