Effects of slash pile burning on the physical and chemical soil properties of Vassar soils

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-86

  Oswald, Brian P ^a   Davenport, Douglas ^b   Neuenschwander, Léon F ^c  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032891496     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J091v08n01_06     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Anderson, H.W. 1976. Fire effects on water supply, floods and sedimentation. Proc. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference. 15: 249-260.
2. Bohn, H.L., B.L. McNeal and G.A. O'Connor. 1979. Soil chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 329 p.
3. Brady, N.C. 1974. The nature and properties of soils. Macmillan Publishing Co. New York. 639 p.
4. Chapman, H.O. 1965. Cation exchange capacity. In Methods of soil analysis. C. A. Black (ed.) 1965. American Society of Agronomy, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 891-899.
5. Cooper, S.V., K.E. Neiman, R. Steele, and D.W. Roberts. 1991. Forest habitat types of northern Idaho: a second approximation. Revised 1991. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report INT-236. 135 p.
6. DeByle, N.V. 1976. Soil fertility as affected by broadcast burning following clearcutting in northern Rocky Mountain larch-fir forests. Proc. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference. 14: 447-464.
7. Dyrness, C.T. and C.T. Youngberg. 1957. The effect of logging and slash burning on soil structure. Soil Science of America Proceedings. 21: 444-447.
8. Fisher, R.A. 1949. The design of experiments. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Ltd. 249 pp.
9. Grier, C.C. 1975. Wildfire effects on nutrient distribution and leaching in a coniferous ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 5: 599-607.
10. Jackson, W.A., C.E. Frost, and D.M. Haldreth. 1975. Versatile multirange analytical manifold for automated analysis of nitrate-nitrogen. Soil Science of America Proceedings. 39: 592-593.
11. Jurgensen, M.F. and C.G. Wells. 1971. Apparent nitrogen fixation in soil influenced by prescribed burning. Soil Science of America Proceedings. 35(5): 806-810.
12. Jurgensen, M.F., A.E. Harvey, and M.J. Larsen. 1981. The effects of prescribed fire on soil nitrogen levels in a cutover Douglas-fir/western larch forest. USDA Forest Service Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Research Paper INT-275. 24 pp.
13. Macadam, A.M. 1987. Effects of broadcast slash burning on fuels and soil chemical properties in the Sub-boreal spruce zone of Central British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17: 1577-1584.
14. Mroz, G.D., M.F. Jurgensen, A.E. Harvey, and M.J. Larsen. 1980. Effects of fire on nitrogen in forest floor horizons. Soil Science Society of America Journal 44: 395-400.
15. Ott, L. 1984. An introduction to statistical methods and data analysis. Duxbury Press, North Scituate, Mass. 730 pp.
16. Packer, P.E. and B.D. Williams. 1976. Logging and prescribed burning effects on the hydrologic and soil stability behavior of larch/Douglas-fir forests in the northern Rocky Mountains. Proc. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 14: 465-480.
17. Peech, M. and L. English. 1944. Rapid microchemical soil test. Soil Science 57: 167.
18. Schoch, P. and D. Binkley. 1986. Prescribed burning increases nitrogen availability in a mature loblolly pine stand. For. Ecology and Management 14: 13-22.
19. Shearer, R.C. 1976. Early establishment of conifers following prescribed broadcast burning in western larch/Douglas-fir forests. Proc. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 14: 481-500.
20. Stark, N. 1977. Fire and nutrient cycling in a Douglas-fir/larch forest. Ecology 58: 16-30.
21. Tarrant, R.F. 1956. Effects of slash burning on some soils of the Douglas-fir region. Soil Science of America Proceedings 20: 408-411.
22. Technicon Industrial Methods. 1975. Industrial method No. 369-75A. Digestion and sample preparation for the analysis of total Kjeldahl nitrogen and/or total phosphorus in food and agricultural products using the Technicon BD-20 block digestor.
23. Wright, E. and R.F. Tarrant. 1957. Microbial soil properties after logging and slash burning. USFS Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Research Note 157. 5 p.
24. Wells, C.G. 1971. Effects of burning on soil chemical properties and nutrient availability. USFS Southeast Forest Experiment Station Prescribed Burning Symposium pp. 86. 97.