Temperature-related mortality: a systematic review and investigation of effect modifiers

JY Son, JC Liu, ML Bell - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Background: Understanding which populations are vulnerable and which factors affect
vulnerability to temperature-mortality associations is important to reduce the health burden …

North American extreme precipitation events and related large-scale meteorological patterns: a review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends

M Barlow, WJ Gutowski, JR Gyakum, RW Katz, YK Lim… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This paper surveys the current state of knowledge regarding large-scale meteorological
patterns (LSMPs) associated with short-duration (less than 1 week) extreme precipitation …

Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

AP Williams, R Seager, AK Macalady… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
We related measurements of annual burned area in the southwest United States during
1984–2013 to records of climate variability. Within forests, annual burned area correlated at …

Fire, livestock grazing, topography, and precipitation affect occurrence and prevalence of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in the central Great Basin, USA

MA Williamson, E Fleishman, RC Mac Nally… - Biological …, 2020 - Springer
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) has increased the extent and frequency of fire and negatively
affected native plant and animal species across the Intermountain West (USA). However, the …

Reducing urban heat wave risk in the 21st century

BF Milan, F Creutzig - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Projected changes in heat waves and urbanization will increase health risks in
cities.•Risks are unequally distributed across intrinsic and extrinsic factors.•Public health …

[HTML][HTML] Water security under severe drought and climate change: Disparate impacts of the recent severe drought on environmental flows and water supplies in …

IT Stewart, J Rogers, A Graham - Journal of Hydrology X, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The record-breaking 2014–2016 California drought, emblematic of the more
frequent and extreme climatic events projected under climate change, highlighted the …

Beef production in the southwestern United States: strategies toward sustainability

S Spiegal, AF Cibils, BT Bestelmeyer… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
From grazing lands to meat packing, beef production systems in the United States are
striving to meet global demands without compromising environmental quality or local …

Grass finishing of Criollo cattle can provide an environmentally preferred and cost effective meat supply chain from United States drylands

JP Castaño-Sánchez, CA Rotz, MM McIntosh, C Tolle… - Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract CONTEXT The southwestern United States is experiencing an increasingly warmer
and drier climate that is affecting cattle production systems of the region. Adaptation …

When humans work like beavers: Riparian restoration enhances invertebrate gamma diversity and habitat heterogeneity

NJ Corline, P Vasquez‐Housley, E Yokel… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Restoration has the potential to increase habitat heterogeneity through the creation of
unique habitat patches that, in turn, increase regional species richness or gamma diversity …

Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture

C Steele, J Reyes, E Elias, S Aney, A Rango - Climatic Change, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The interior southwest United States is one of the hottest, driest regions on the
planet, yet irrigated cropland agriculture is successfully practiced where there is access to …