Fire effects on soils: The human dimension

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1696, 2016, Pages

  Santín, Cristina ^a   Doerr, Stefan H ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bushfire; Climate change; Land cover; Prescribed fire; Wildfire; Wildland fire

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL EROSION; SOIL FERTILITY; WILDFIRE;

SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; HUMAN; SOIL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; SOIL;

EID: 84969722043     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0171     Document Type: Review

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