Immediate and long-term fire effects on total mercury in forests soils of northeastern minnesota

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 5371-5376

  Woodruff, Laurel G ^a   Cannon, William F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FIRES; MERCURY (METAL); PARKS;

BURN SEVERITY; CONCENTRATION OF; FIRE EFFECT; FOREST SOILS; INTEGRATED DATA; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY LOSS; MINERAL SOILS; MINNESOTA; NATIONAL PARKS; SOIL DATA; TOTAL MERCURIES;

SOILS;

CARBON; MERCURY; SOIL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST SOIL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TYPE; WILDFIRE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CASE REPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESTRUCTION; FIRE; FOREST SOIL; HUMAN; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; SOIL; TIME; TREE;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES; VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK;

FIRES; MERCURY; MINNESOTA; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 77954588982     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100544d     Document Type: Article

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