Prescribed burning impact on forest soil properties-A Fuzzy Boolean Nets approach

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-204

  Castro, Ana C Meira ^a   Paulo Carvalho, Joao ^b   Ribeiro, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Forest soil; Fuzzy Boolean Nets; Fuzzy systems; Prescribed burning; Soil physical properties

Indexed keywords

IRON; ORGANIC MATTER;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST SOIL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; PH; PRESCRIBED BURNING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FIRE; FOREST; PH; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FIRES; FUZZY LOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PORTUGAL; SOIL; TREES;

CAMINHA; PORTUGAL; VIANA DO CASTELO [PORTUGAL];

EID: 79451475567     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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