Impact of fire on chemical properties and respiration of boreal forest soils
- University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- USDA Forest Service Products Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
We collected both organic-rich and sandy soil cores from 12 sites (site_location_and_texture.csv) within Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta, Canada. Laboratory burns were conducted by exposing intact soil cores to 60 kW m^-2 in a mass loss calorimeter to simulate boreal forest crown fires in order to measure the effects of burning (temp_data.csv) on soil properties including pH, total C, and total nitrogen (N) (metadata.csv). We used 70-day soil incubations and two-pool exponential decay models to characterize the impacts of burning and burn-induced changes in soil properties on soil respiration (soil_moisture_at_end_of_incubation.csv; soil_mass_at_end_of_incubation.csv; respiration_data.csv). Laboratory burns successfully captured a range of soil temperatures that were realistic for natural wildfire events.
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Modelling Microbes to Predict Post-fire Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest across Burn Severities
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 2438579
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > CARBON
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > NITROGEN
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL BULK DENSITY
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL PH
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL RESPIRATION
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEXTURE