Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

Nature

Volumn 553, Issue 7687, 2018, Pages 194-198

  Pellegrini, Adam F A ^a   Ahlström, Anders ^a,b   Hobbie, Sarah E ^c   Reich, Peter B ^c,d   Nieradzik, Lars P ^e   Staver, A Carla ^f   Scharenbroch, Bryant C ^g   Jumpponen, Ari ^h   Anderegg, William R L ⁱ   Randerson, James T ^j   Jackson, Robert B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^h KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; CALCIUM; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; BIOMASS BURNING; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DECADAL VARIATION; GRASSLAND; PREDICTION; SAVANNA; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TEMPERATE FOREST; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CARBON STORAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIRE; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SURFACE SOIL; VEGETATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; DEFICIENCY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GRASSLAND; METABOLISM; SOIL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; WILDFIRE;

CALCIUM; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SOIL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WILDFIRES;

EID: 85040443941     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature24668     Document Type: Article

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