Five-year legacy of wildfire and salvage logging impacts on nutrient runoff and aquatic plant, invertebrate, and fish productivity

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1508-1523

  Silins, Uldis ^a   Bladon, Kevin D ^a,b   Kelly, Erin N ^c   Esch, Evan ^a   Spence, John R ^a   Stone, Micheal ^d   Emelko, Monica B ^d   Boon, Sarah ^e   Wagner, Michael J ^f   Williams, Chris H S ^a   Tichkowsky, Ian ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^f ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^g Matrix Solutions Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algae; Forest fire; Hydrologic recovery; Macroinvertebrates; Natural disturbance; Phosphorus; Sediment; Stream ecology

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FISH; PHOSPHORUS; PRODUCTIVITY; RECOVERY; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; FOREST FIRES; MACROINVERTEBRATES; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; STABLE CARBON AND NITROGEN ISOTOPES; STREAM ECOLOGY;

FIRES;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII;

EID: 84919402111     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1474     Document Type: Article

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