Effects of forest wildfire on soil microbial-community activity and chemical components on a temporal-seasonal scale

Plant and Soil

Volumn 360, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 243-257

  Ginzburg, Orit ^a   Steinberger, Yosef ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Microbial community; Microbial N; Pine forest; Resilience index (R x); Seasonality; Temporal scale; Total soluble nitrogen (TSN); Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEASONALITY; SOIL COVER; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84867743298     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1243-2     Document Type: Article

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