Figure 5 : Spatial arrangement of burn severity in A) Brush Creek which was 71% burned with most high severity fire occurring in the upper watershed and B) Pine Creek which was 59% burned with most high severity fire occurring in the lower watershed. Distribution of cumulative upslope accumulated area (black solid lines), cumulative burned area (red dashed lines), and mean catchment NDMI (blue dotted lines) for C) Brush and D) Pine. Upstream distance was relativized between 0 and 1 in all plots, with headwaters on the left and outlet on the right, to allow for comparisons between watersheds. The vertical grey line denotes the mid-point of the watershed. Distribution of relative lateral inputs with upstream distance for E) Brush and F) Pine where bars are colored according the mean NDMI of each discrete lateral input. Stream NO3- concentrations predicted from the NO3- SSN model (black circles) are compared for both E) Brush and F) Pine.