Use of thermal analysis and solid-state 13C CP-MAS NMR spectroscopy to diagnose organic matter quality in relation to burn severity in Atlantic soils

Geoderma

Volumn 226-227, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 376-386

  Merino, Agustín ^a   Ferreiro, Andrea ^a   Salgado, Josefa ^a   Fontúrbel, María T ^b   Barros, Nieves ^a   Fernández, Cristina ^b   Vega, Jose A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Investigacion Forestal de Lourizan   (Spain)

Author keywords

DSC; Soil burn severity; SOM quality; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FIRES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL SHIFT; ORGANIC CARBON;

BURN SEVERITY; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; DSC; FIRE-PRONE ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER QUALITIES; POST-FIRE REHABILITATIONS; VISUAL CLASSIFICATION; WILDFIRE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

BURNING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MINERAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; THERMODYNAMICS; WILDFIRE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLASSIFICATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SPECTROSCOPY;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; SPAIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84899064688     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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