ASU NEWS - As wildfires increasingly threaten arid regions, a new conceptual framework developed by a team of researchers offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between fire, water quality and ecosystem recovery.
Led by Tamara Harms, ASU School of Life Sciences alumna and associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, a collaborative study titled "Fire influence on land–water interactions in aridland catchments" was recently published in BioScience and emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and watershed-focused research.
“This paper is conceptual, so we were a collaborative group of people with expertise in an array of disciplines across ecology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, terrestrial and aquatic perspectives,” Harms said.