Long term consequences of a controlled slash burn and slash mastication to soil moisture and CO2 at a Southern Colorado site

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Massman, W J ^a,b   Frank, J M ^b   Esquilin, A E Jiménez ^c   Stromberger, M E ^c   Shepperd, W D ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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