Long-term impact of wildfire on soils exposed to different fire severities. A case study in Cadiretes Massif (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 615, Issue , 2018, Pages 664-671

  Francos, Marcos ^a   Úbeda, Xavier ^a   Pereira, Paulo ^b   Alcañiz, Meritxell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Fire recurrence; Fire severity; Forest resilience; Long term; Soil chemical properties

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; VEGETATION;

EXPOSED TO; EXTRACTABLES; FIRE RECURRENCE; FIRE REGIMES; FIRE SEVERITY; FOREST RESILIENCE; LONG-TERM; SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; TOTAL CARBON;

SOILS;

CALCIUM; CARBON; MAGNESIUM; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; FOREST SOIL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LEACHING; NATURAL DISASTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 85030695105     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.311     Document Type: Article

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