Soil Water Repellency Severity and its Spatio-Temporal Variation in Burnt Eucalypt Plantations in North-Central Portugal

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1463-1478

  Malvar, Maruxa C ^a   Prats, Sergio A ^a   Nunes, João P ^a   Keizer, Jan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

eucalypt; post fire; soil moisture; soil water repellency; temporal pattern; transition zone

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; FORESTRY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE;

EUCALYPT; POST-FIRE; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TRANSITION ZONES;

SOIL TESTING;

PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSITION ZONE;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84948968188     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2450     Document Type: Article

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