Contribution of forest fire ash and plant litter decay on stream dissolved composition in a sub-humid tropical watershed (Mule Hole, Southern India)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 372, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-161

  Audry, Stéphane ^a   Akerman, Alisson ^a   Riotte, Jean ^a,b   Oliva, Priscia ^a   Maréchal, Jean Christophe ^c   Fraysse, Fabrice ^d   Pokrovsky, Oleg S ^a,e   Braun, Jean Jacques ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c BRGM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ash; Elemental fluxes; EMMA; Litter; Tropical watershed; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EMMA; END-MEMBER MIXING ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELLING; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; LITTER; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; WILDFIRE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ASHES; BATCH REACTORS; CALCIUM; DEFORESTATION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FIRES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LEACHING; QUARTZ; SILICON; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

MAGNESIUM;

ASH; DISSOLUTION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FOREST FIRE; LITTER; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

ASH; CALCIUM; DEFORESTATION; DISSOLVING; FOREST LITTER; MAGNESIUM; PLANTS; SILICON; SURFACE WATER; WATER SHEDS;

INDIA;

EID: 84903363865     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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