Effects of salvage logging on soil properties and vegetation recovery in a fire-affected Mediterranean forest: A two year monitoring research

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 586, Issue , 2017, Pages 1057-1065

  Garcia Orenes F ^a   Arcenegui, V ^a   Chrenkova K ^a   Mataix Solera, J ^a   Molto J ^a   Jara Navarro, A B ^a   Torres, M P ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burnt soil; Post fire treatments; Salvage logging; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; MACHINERY; RECOVERY;

BASAL SOIL RESPIRATIONS; BURNT SOIL; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON; MICROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; POST-FIRE; SALVAGE LOGGING; WILDFIRE;

SOILS;

CARBON; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; LOGGING (TIMBER); SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOREST; LOGGING; NONHUMAN; PINE; PINUS HALEPENSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

SPAIN;

PARTHENIUM INCANUM;

EID: 85012890973     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.090     Document Type: Article

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