Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen cycling along a 72-year wildfire chronosequence in Michigan jack pine forests

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 690-700

  Yermakov, Zhanna ^a,b   Rothstein, David E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Fire; Nitrogen mineralization; Organic horizon accrual; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MINERALIZATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; METABOLISM; PINE; SOIL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MICHIGAN; NITROGEN; PINUS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 33748939101     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0474-4     Document Type: Article

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