Plant nutrient losses by soil erosion and mass movement after wildfire

JD Helvey, AR Tiedemann… - Journal of Soil and Water …, 1985 - jswconline.org
Annual sediment yields increased as much as 180 times above pre-fire levels after wildfire
destroyed all vegetation on three forested watersheds in the Entiat Experimental Forest in …

Prefire and postfire erosion of soil nutrients within a chaparral watershed

JP de Koff, RC Graham, KR Hubbert… - Soil …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Prescribed burns are an effective and increasingly popular strategy for inhibiting wildfires.
The goal of this study was to characterize soil nutrient loss after a prescribed fire within a …

First‐year post‐fire erosion rates in Bitterroot National Forest, Montana

KM Spigel, PR Robichaud - Hydrological Processes: An …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerated runoff and erosion commonly occur following forest fires due to combustion of
protective forest floor material, which results in bare soil being exposed to overland flow and …

Effects of postfire seeding and fertilizing on hillslope erosion in north-central Washington, USA

PR Robichaud, TR Lillybridge, JW Wagenbrenner - Catena, 2006 - Elsevier
After the 1998 North 25 Fire in the Wenatchee National Forest, eight study sites were
established on steep, severely burned hillslopes to examine the effectiveness of postfire …

EFFECTS OF A NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON WILDFIRE ON RUNOFF AND SEDIMENT PRODUCTION1

JD Helvey - JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources …, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
Runoff was measured from a 564‐ha catchment located on the Entiat Experimental Forest
for nine years before a severe wild‐fire in 1970 destroyed the mixed conifer vegetation …

Sediment and nutrient export in runoff from burned and harvested pine watersheds in the South Carolina Piedmont

DH Van Lear, JE Douglass, SK Cox, MK Augspurger - 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Soil and nutrient export in ephemeral flow were studied over a 3‐yr period following
clearcutting three loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) watersheds (0.60–1.24 ha). Two preharvest …

Large-scale erosion and flooding after wildfires: understanding the soil conditions.

M Curran, B Chapman, G Hope, D Scott - 2006 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This bulletin discusses soil-related properties and processes determining large-scale soil
erosion and associated runoff. Soil characteristics related to these properties and processes …

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 …

Prescribed burning and water quality of ephemeral streams in the Piedmont of South Carolina

JE Douglass, DH Van Lear - Forest Science, 1983 - academic.oup.com
Soil and nutrient export were monitored before and after two prescribed burns 18 months
apart. Burns were designed to prepare Piedmont pine stands for regeneration. Data from …

Plant nutrient concentrations in runoff from fertilized cultivated erosion plots and prairie in eastern South Dakota

EM White, EJ Williamson - 1973 - Wiley Online Library
Runoff waters from fertilized erosion plots and from native prairie in South Dakota were
compared to determine the effect agriculture has had on water quality. Calcium, Mg, K, Na …