Changes in soil chemical and biological properties after thinning and prescribed fire for ecosystem restoration in a Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 275, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Switzer, Joshua M ^a   Hope, Graeme D ^b   Grayston, Sue J ^a   Prescott, Cindy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest floor; Fuel loading; Nitrogen; Nutrients; Pile burning; PLFA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; DOUGLAS FIR; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FIRE EFFECT; FIRE TEMPERATURES; FIRST YEAR; FOREST FLOORS; FUEL LOADING; FUEL MANAGEMENT; MATURE TREES; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL GROUPS; MINERAL SOILS; N CONTENT; NUTRIENT LEVELS; PLFA; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PRESCRIBED FIRES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOIL PH; SOIL PROPERTY; SULPHATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRES; FLOORS; FUELS; INCINERATION; LOADING; MINERALS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PH; PILES; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

FOREST FLOOR; MOISTURE CONTENT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THINNING; WILDFIRE;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; MOISTURE CONTENT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; THINNING;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII GLAUCA;

EID: 84860517669     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.025     Document Type: Article

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