1. Briefly, fire can induce soil water repellence which decreases soil hydraulic conductivity by reducing the capacity for soils to infiltrate incoming rainfall (Scott and Van Wyk;Neary;Benavides-Solorio and MacDonald,1990
2. Fire can reduce soil porosity by disrupting soil aggregates through heating;Leighton-Boyce;Fire completely or partially removes litter and vegetation present on a hillslope, reducing rainfall storage,1984
3. Fuel availability (amount and moisture) controls the amount of soil heating during combustion. Fuel loads and flammability vary with the vegetation functional groups present in the landscape (Bradstock, 2010) and can be considered as an inherent landscape property, being a function of climate, topography, geology, and time since fire;Nolan Ebel;Boer et al., 2016), and fire frequency and intensity,1995
4. A comparison of soil climate and biological activity along an elevation gradient in the eastern Mojave Desert;R Amundson;Oecologia,1989