Prescribed Fire: Effects on Water Quality and Forest Nutrient Cycling

D. D. Richter; C. W. Ralston; W. R. Harms

doi:10.1126/science.215.4533.661

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Prescribed Fire: Effects on Water Quality and Forest Nutrient Cycling

Formally Refereed

Authors:

D. D. Richter, C. W. Ralston, W. R. Harms

Year:

1982

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Southern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.215.4533.661

Source:

Science

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Abstract

Prescribed fire, a practice applied annually to about 106 hectares of forests in the southeastern United States, had limited effects on soils, nutrient cycling, and hydrologic systems of a coastal plain pine forest. Hydrologic fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and basic cations, from burned pine litter to ground and stream waters, are not likely to have appreciable impacts on water quality in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain.

Citation

Richter, D. D.; Ralston, C. W.; Harms, W. R. 1982. Prescribed fire: Effects on water quality and forest nutrient cycling. Science. 215(4533): 661-663.