The long-term effects of wildfire and post-fire vegetation on sierra nevada forest soils

Forests

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 398-416

  Johnson, Dale W ^a   Walker, Roger F ^a   McNulty, Michelle ^a   Rau, Benjamin M ^a   Miller, Watkins W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Long term; N fixation; Nutrients; Soils; Vegetation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ALFISOLS; CALIFORNIA; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST SOILS; FORESTED SITES; LONG-TERM; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; N CONTENT; N-FIXATION; NUTRIENT CONTENTS; PARENT MATERIALS; POST-FIRE; SIERRA NEVADA; SOIL TYPES; WILDFIRE;

CARBON; FIRES; GRANITE; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENTS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ALFISOL; BICARBONATE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DOMINANCE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST SOIL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOSPHORUS; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NUTRIENT; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; SAGEHEN BASIN; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CEANOTHUS VELUTINUS; PINUS JEFFREYI;

EID: 84869240654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f3020398     Document Type: Article

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