Inorganic and organic N pools in soils burned or heated: Immediate alterations and evolution after forest wildfires

Geoderma

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 291-306

  Prieto Fernández, Ángeles ^a   Carballas, Modesto ^a   Carballas, Tarsy ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest fires; Hydrolysable N; Nitrogen; Recalcitrant and labile N; Residual N; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; COMBUSTION; FORESTRY; HYDROLYSIS; NITROGEN; SOLUBILITY;

ACID HYDROLYSIS; FOREST WILDFIRES;

SOILS;

FOREST FIRE; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN;

EID: 3042722104     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2003.11.016     Document Type: Article

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