How strongly can forest management influence soil carbon sequestration?

R Jandl, M Lindner, L Vesterdal, B Bauwens, R Baritz… - Geoderma, 2007 - Elsevier
We reviewed the experimental evidence for long-term carbon (C) sequestration in soils as
consequence of specific forest management strategies. Utilization of terrestrial C sinks …

How do natural disturbances and human activities affect soils and tree nutrition and growth in the Canadian boreal forest?

DG Maynard, D Paré, E Thiffault, B Lafleur… - Environmental …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
There are concerns about the effect of increasing resource extraction and other human
activities on the soils and vegetation of the boreal zone. The review covers published papers …

Testing the ability of visual indicators of soil burn severity to reflect changes in soil chemical and microbial properties in pine forests and shrubland

JA Vega, T Fontúrbel, A Merino, C Fernández… - Plant and Soil, 2013 - Springer
Aims Areas affected by wildfire comprise spatially complex mosaics of burned patches in
which a wide range of burn severities coexist. Rapid diagnosis of the different levels of soil …

Wildfire effects on soil nutrients and leaching in a Tahoe Basin watershed

JD Murphy, DW Johnson, WW Miller… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A wildfire burned through a previously sampled research site, allowing pre‐and
post‐burn measurements of the forest floor, soils, and soil leaching near Lake Tahoe …

Post-fire recovery of soil organic carbon, soil total nitrogen, soil nutrients, and soil erodibility in rotational shifting cultivation in Northern Thailand

N Arunrat, S Sereenonchai, P Kongsurakan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The hill tribes in Thailand traditionally depend on rotational shifting cultivation (RSC).
However, insufficient understanding remains on post-fire soil properties and soil erodibility …

Intense forest wildfire sharply reduces mineral soil C and N: the first direct evidence

BT Bormann, PS Homann… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - cdnsciencepub.com
Direct evidence of the effects of intense wildfire on forest soil is rare because reliable prefire
data are lacking. By chance, an established large-scale experiment was partially burned in …

Soil microbial activity in response to fire severity in Zagros oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) forests, Iran, after one year

M Pourreza, SM Hosseini, AAS Sinegani… - Geoderma, 2014 - Elsevier
The Zagros forest ecosystem is being threatened by increasing number of forest fires. These
forests are generally in coppice form and oak sprout clumps occupy forest area like patches …

Tamm Review: Nutrient cycling in forests: A historical look and newer developments

DW Johnson, J Turner - Forest Ecology and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, we consider a traditional conceptual model of nutrient cycling in forests and
evaluate (1) assumptions and issues with existing methods for measuring and calculating …

Wildfire effects on forest carbon and nutrient budgets

D Johnson, JD Murphy, RF Walker, DW Glass… - ecological …, 2007 - Elsevier
A wildfire burned through previously established research plots, allowing comparisons of
pre-and post-fire nutrient pools and fluxes. The Gondola fire resulted in the loss of 30.9 …

Root carbon and soil temperature may be key drivers of below-ground biomass in grassland following prescribed fires in autumn and spring

C Luo, Z Fang, J Liu, F Han, Y Wu, H Bing… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Under global warming, fire and the season in which the fire occurs both have important
impacts on grassland plant biomass. Still, the effect of fire on below-ground biomass (BB) …