Long-term effects of wildfires on the biochemical quality of soil organic matter: A study on Mediterranean shrublands

Geoderma

Volumn 179-180, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-19

  Rovira, Pere ^a   Romanyà, Joan ^b   Duguy, Beatriz ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acid hydrolysis; Aromatic carbon; Carbohydrates; Labile and recalcitrant organic matter; Refractory OM; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ACID HYDROLYSIS; AROMATIC CARBON; AROMATICITIES; BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOCHEMICAL QUALITY; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CONDENSED FORM; DATA SETS; FIELD CONDITIONS; LABILE FRACTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; NMR ANALYSIS; PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; POST-FIRE; POST-FIRE RESTORATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; RECALCITRANT ORGANIC MATTER; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; SHRUBLANDS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL SAMPLE; TOTAL CARBOHYDRATES; VALENCIA; WILDFIRES;

AROMATIZATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBOHYDRATES; HYDROLYSIS; PHENOLS; RECOVERY; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SOILS;

FIRES;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CARBOHYDRATE; HYDROLYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHRUBLAND; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; WILDFIRE;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84858302861     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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