Wildfire effects on forest carbon and nutrient budgets

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-192

  Johnson, Dale ^a   Murphy, James D ^a   Walker, Roger F ^a   Glass, Dallas W ^a   Miller, Watkins W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Budgets; Carbon; Leaching; Nutrients; Soils; Vegetation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMBUSTION; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION;

VEGETATION COLONIZED; WILDFIRE;

FORESTRY;

CARBON; COMBUSTION; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION;

CARBON BUDGET; LEACHING; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PHOSPHORUS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

COMBUSTION; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS;

EID: 34447328665     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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