Wildfires burn extensive forest areas around the world each year. In many locations, fire-
prone forest catchments are utilised for the supply of potable water to small communities up …

Forest soil carbon (C) storage is a significant component of the global C cycle, and is
important for sustaining forest productivity. Although forest management may have …

High-intensity and fast-spreading wildfires are natural in the Mediterranean basin. However,
since 1960, wildfire occurrence has increased because of changes in land use, which …

Forest soils represent a substantial portion of the terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and changes to
soil C cycling are globally significant not only for C sequestration but also for sustaining …

Current Sierra Nevada forest management is often focused on strategically reducing fuels
without an explicit strategy for ecological restoration across the landscape matrix …

For the last 23years, low-severity prescribed fire has been used to decrease shade and fire
tolerant tree species, increase oak (Quercus spp.), and increase herbaceous plant diversity …

Wildfires affect ecosystems depending on the fire regime. Long-term studies are needed to
understand the ecological role played by fire, especially as regards its impact on soils. The …

Forest residues and logging slash from pre-commercial forest thinning and regeneration
harvests are a potential feedstock for bioenergy production but there has been a concern …

Understanding the impact of forest harvesting is critical to sustainable forest management,
yet there remains much uncertainty regarding how harvesting affects soil carbon (C) …

This study presents data on mercury (Hg) concentrations, stochiometric relations to carbon
(C) and nitrogen (N), and Hg pool sizes in four Sierra Nevada forest sites of similar exposure …