Effects of wildfire and topography on soil nitrogen availability in a boreal larch forest of northeastern China

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 433-442

  Kong, Jian Jian ^a,b,c   Yang, Jian ^a   Chu, Haiyan ^d   Xiang, Xingjia ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

disturbance; Eurasian boreal forest; fire severity; landscape heterogeneity; nitrogen mineralisation

Indexed keywords

LARIX;

EID: 84929337362     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF13218     Document Type: Article

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