In this new publication, RHESSys is used to explore the mechanisms that control the change in water yield following a beetle outbreak. Results indicate that the response to beetle-caused tree mortality is nonlinear – the direction of water yield change was location specific & driven by inter-annual climate variability, .
Ren, J., Adam, J.C., Hicke, J.A., Hanan, E.J., Tague, C.L., Liu, M., Kolden, C.A., Abatzoglou, J.T. (2021) How does water yield respond to mountain pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest? Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25: 4681–4699. doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4681-2021
The Tague Team Lab 