Charcoal and total carbon in soils from foothills shrublands to subalpine forests in the colorado front raneg

Forests

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 944-958

  Licata, Christopher ^a   Sanford, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Charcoal; Fire; Fire regime; Forests; Rocky Mountains; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; FIRE REGIMES; FORESTS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

CHARCOAL; ECOLOGY; FIRES; LAKES; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

BLACK CARBON; CHARCOAL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST FIRE; SHRUBLAND; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

CHARCOAL; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTS; LAKES; SOIL;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS CONTORTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84883302223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f3040944     Document Type: Article

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