Climate change is a crucial factor in increasing wildfire risks, where warmer and drier conditions, increased drought periods and increased lightning strikes have made many areas more susceptible to burning. This special issue focuses on Wildfire and Hydrological Processes, exploring how wildfire has impacted watersheds and water resources. The manuscripts in this collection underscore how wildfire can change the nature of vegetation, characteristics of soils, hydrological flow paths, and residence times of water in the critical zone, and provide new insights toward predictability of wildfire impacts on watersheds. The studies reveal that wildfire can affect water quantity and quality over varying timescales, from during the active burning to years and decades afterward.

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野火和水文过程

气候变化是增加野火风险的关键因素，气候变暖和干燥、干旱期延长和雷击增加使许多地区更容易发生火灾。本期特刊关注野火和水文过程，探讨野火如何影响流域和水资源。本集中的手稿强调了野火如何改变植被的性质、土壤的特征、水文流动路径和水在临界区的停留时间，并为野火对流域影响的可预测性提供了新的见解。研究表明，野火会在不同的时间尺度上影响水的数量和质量，从活跃燃烧期间到几年和几十年后。