Combined influence of fire and salvage logging on carbon and nitrogen storage in boreal forest soil profiles

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 326, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-141

  Poirier, Vincent ^a   Paré, David ^b   Boiffin, Juliette ^a   Munson, Alison D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce forest; Salvage logging; Soil horizons; Soil organic carbon; Total soil nitrogen; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FIRES; FORESTRY; MINERALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BLACK SPRUCE FORESTS; SALVAGE LOGGING; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; WILDFIRE;

SOILS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOREAL FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST SOIL; LOGGING (TIMBER); SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; WILDFIRE;

CARBON; FIRES; FORESTRY; MINERALS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PICEA MARIANA; SOIL;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84900036806     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.04.021     Document Type: Article

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