Changes in peat chemical properties during post-fire succession on blanket bog moorland

Geoderma

Volumn 211-212, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 98-106

  Rosenburgh, Angus ^a,b   Alday, Josu G ^a   Harris, Michael P K ^a   Allen, Katherine A ^a   Connor, Leslie ^a   Blackbird, Sabina ^a   Eyre, Geoff ^c   Marrs, Rob H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c William Eyre and Sons   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C:N ratio; Chronosequence; Conservation policy; Mixed effects modelling; Multivariate analysis; Nitrogen saturation

Indexed keywords

C:N RATIO; CHRONOSEQUENCES; CONSERVATION POLICY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN SATURATION;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; DIGITAL STORAGE; FIRES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PEAT; SOILS; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

BLANKET BOG; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DRY DEPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MOORLAND; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEAT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RAINFALL; SUCCESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84881257334     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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