Wildfire effects on lipid composition and hydrophobicity of bulk soil and soil size fractions under Quercus suber cover (SW-Spain)

Environmental Research

Volumn 159, Issue , 2017, Pages 394-405

  Jiménez Morillo, Nicasio T ^a   Spangenberg, Jorge E ^b   Miller, Ana Z ^a   Jordán, Antonio ^c   Zavala, Lorena M ^c   González Vila, Francisco J ^a   González Pérez, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c MED_Soil Research Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire; GC MS; Lipids; Soil organic matter; Soil particle size fractions; Soil water repellency

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS SUBER;

LIPID; SOIL;

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; OAK; SOIL; SPAIN;

ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIPIDS; QUERCUS; SOIL; SPAIN;

EID: 85028356123     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.08.022     Document Type: Article

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