Mid-term and scaling effects of forest residue mulching on post-fire runoff and soil erosion

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 573, Issue , 2016, Pages 1242-1254

  Prats, Sergio Alegre ^a   Wagenbrenner, Joseph W ^b   Martins, Martinho António Santos ^a   Malvar, Maruxa Cortizo ^a   Keizer, Jan Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eucalypt; Mulch; Runoff; Scale; Soil loss; Soil water repellency; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EROSION; FIRES; FORESTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

EUCALYPT; MULCH; SCALE; SOIL LOSS; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; WILDFIRE;

SOILS;

RAIN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL WATER;

FOREST SOIL; MULCHING; PLANTATION; RUNOFF; SOIL EROSION; SOIL WATER; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; FIRE; FOREST; LAND USE; MULCH; PLANTATION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNOFF; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84964833059     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.064     Document Type: Article

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