Effects of fire and ash on soil water retention

Geoderma

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 276-285

  Stoof, Cathelijne R ^a   Wesseling, Jan G ^a   Ritsema, Coen J ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Ash; Burning; Fire; Heating; Soil water retention

Indexed keywords

ASH; AVAILABLE WATER; BULK DENSITY; BURNING; EROSION PROCESS; FIELD CAPACITY; HEATING EXPERIMENT; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; ORGANIC MATTER; POST-FIRE; SAND CONTENT; SILT CONTENTS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL WATER RETENTION; WATER RETENTION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS;

HEATING;

ASH; BULK DENSITY; BURNING; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; ORGANIC MATTER; SAND; SATURATION; SILTY CLAY; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 78650175203     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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