River ecosystem response to prescribed vegetation burning on blanket peatland

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Lee E ^a   Johnston, Kerrylyn ^a,b   Palmer, SheilaM ^a   Aspray, Katie L ^a   Holden, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MANGANESE; SILICON; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENT; CHIRONOMIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PEATLAND; PH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASON; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION; VEGETATION BURNING; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; RIVER; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; FIRES; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL;

EID: 84896714367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081023     Document Type: Article

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