Farms, fires, and forestry: Disturbance legacies in the soils of the Northwest Wisconsin (USA) Sand Plain

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 827-836

  Grossmann, Emilie B ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Disturbance legacy; Magnesium; Nitrogen; Northwest Wisconsin Sand Plain; Organic matter; pH; Phosphorus; Potassium; Scale; Variance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CALCIUM; CONSERVATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FIRES; HARVESTING; HISTORY; LANDFORMS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PLANNING; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; SOILS; TIMBER;

(SPM) CLASSES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION (COV); CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECIDUOUS FORESTS; ELSEVIER (CO); EVERGREEN (CO); FIELD SAMPLING; FIRE EFFECTS; FIRE HISTORIES; FIRE SEVERITY; FOREST CANOPIES; FOREST SOILS; LONG TERM EFFECTS; MEAN VALUE (MV); PLANT GROWTH; POPULUS SPP.; QUERCUS; SANDY SOILS; SHRUB SPECIES; SITE SPECIFIC; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER (SOM); SOIL PROPERTIES; STABLE ELEMENTS; TEMPORAL DATABASES; WISCONSIN (USA);

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURE; CLEARCUTTING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; FOREST SOIL; FORESTRY; SANDY SOIL; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

AGRICULTURE; CALCIUM; CONSERVATION; FIRES; FORESTS; HARVESTING; HISTORY; LOGGING; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; PHOSPHORUS; PLANNING; POTASSIUM; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

COMPTONIA PEREGRINA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS RESINOSA; POPULUS; QUERCUS ELLIPSOIDALIS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM;

EID: 46849119440     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.048     Document Type: Article

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