Wildfires influence on soil organic matter in an Atlantic mountainous region (NW of Spain)

Catena

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-295

  Santín, Cristina ^a   Knicker, Heike ^b   Fernández, Susana ^a   Menéndez Duarte, Rosana ^a   Álvarez, Miguel Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C VACP MAS NMR spectroscopy; Atlantic mountainous region; Soil organic matter; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

BURNING; MOUNTAIN REGION; SLOPE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WILDFIRE;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 48649098579     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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