Changes in soil moisture drive soil methane uptake along a fire regeneration chronosequence in a eucalypt forest landscape

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4250-4264

  Fest, Benedikt ^a   Wardlaw, Tim ^b   Livesley, Stephen J ^a   Duff, Thomas J ^a   Arndt, Stefan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FORESTRY TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bushfire; Climate change; Forest regeneration; Methane oxidation; Soil moisture sensitivity; South eastern Australia; Wet sclerophyll eucalypt forest; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST SOIL; METHANE; OXIDATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

METHANE; SOIL; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EUCALYPTUS; FIRE; FOREST; METABOLISM; SOIL; TASMANIA;

EUCALYPTUS; FIRES; FORESTS; METHANE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; TASMANIA; WATER;

EID: 84944111536     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13003     Document Type: Article

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