Prescribed fire's impact on water quality of depressional wetlands in southwestern Georgia

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-25

  Battle, Juliann ^a,b   Golladay, Stephen W ^a  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

(SOUTHWEST); GEORGIA;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 0037770275     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)150[0015:PFIOWQ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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