Immediate effects of prescribed burning in the Central Pyrenees on the amount and stability of topsoil organic matter

Catena

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 238-244

  Armas Herrera, Cecilia M ^a   Martí, Clara ^a   Badía, David ^a   Ortiz Perpiñá, Oriol ^a   Girona García, Antonio ^a   Porta, Jaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon mineralization; Controlled fire; Soil biological activity; Soil organic matter; Subalpine grassland; Woody encroachment

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SAMPLING; SHRUB; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOPSOIL; WILDFIRE;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84978795884     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.07.016     Document Type: Article

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