Soil respiration response to prescribed burning and thinning in mixed-conifer and hardwood forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1581-1591

  Concilio, Amy ^a   Ma, Siyan ^b   Li, Qinglin ^a   LeMoine, James ^c   Chen, Jiquan ^a   North, Malcolm ^d   Moorhead, Daryl ^a   Jensen, Randy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; COMBUSTION; HARDWOODS; MOISTURE; SOILS;

HARDWOOD FORESTS; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL RESPIRATION RATE (SRR);

FORESTRY;

CARBON FLUX; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL RESPIRATION; THINNING;

CARBON; COMBUSTION; FORESTS; HARDWOODS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; SOIL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 27744584918     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x05-091     Document Type: Article

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