Restoration treatments in a Montana ponderosa pine forest: Effects on soil physical, chemical and biological properties

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 25-38

  Gundale, Michael J ^a   DeLuca, Thomas H ^a   Fiedler, Carl E ^a   Ramsey, Philip W ^a   Harrington, Michael G ^b   Gannon, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuels management; Microbial community; Nitrogen cycling; Ponderosa pine; Prescribed fire; Restoration; Thinning

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; NITRIFICATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOILS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LOW-SEVERITY FIRE; RESTORATION TREATMENTS;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL PROPERTY; THINNING;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LIPIDS; NITRIFICATION; PINUS; SOIL; THINNING; WEATHER;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 20544455920     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.015     Document Type: Article

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