Soil water repellency persistence after recurrent forest fires on Mount Carmel, Israel

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 515-526

  Tessler, Naama ^a   Wittenberg, Lea ^a   Greenbaum, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mediterranean; organic matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879571465     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF12063     Document Type: Article

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