Skip to main content

FRAMES logo
Resource Catalog

Document

Type: Book
Author(s): W. H. McKee
Publication Date: 1980

From the Summary ... 'A controlled burning study on the coastal plain of South Alabama was sampled after 8 years. Biennial winter burning was compared with an unburned control. Exchangeable calcium in the surface 3 inches of soil increased 49 percent and nitrogen in the 3 to 6-inch layer of soil was increased 28 percent with biennial winter burning. Prescribed burning increased the levels of aluminum organic and total phosphorus fractions of the surface three inches of soil by 47, 16, and 11 percent. Levels of nutrients in the forest floor decreased with burning. Expression of nutrients on a weight per area basis indicated that burning reduced that portion of the nutrients in the forest floor and resulted in a comparative increase in these nutrients in the surface soil. Data agrees with findings at other locations that prescribed burning is not resulting in a pronounced loss of nutrients from the site.'

Citation: McKee, W. H. 1980. Effects of prescribed burning on soil chemical properties after 8 years for deep, well drained sand soils in Alabama. Progress Report 4110-FS-SE-1103-104 (1). Charleston, SC, USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station.

Cataloging Information

Topics:
Regions:
Keywords:
  • Alabama
  • aluminum
  • burning intervals
  • calcium
  • coastal plain
  • drainage
  • fire management
  • K - potassium
  • litter
  • magnesium
  • nitrogen
  • nutrients
  • organic soils
  • overstory
  • phosphorus
  • pine forests
  • Pinus palustris
  • post fire recovery
  • sampling
  • season of fire
  • sodium
  • soil management
  • soil nutrients
  • soils
  • succession
  • thinning
  • understory vegetation
Tall Timbers Record Number: 13607Location Status: In-fileCall Number: Fire FileAbstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
Record Last Modified:
Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 38983

This bibliographic record was either created or modified by Tall Timbers and is provided without charge to promote research and education in Fire Ecology. The E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database is the intellectual property of Tall Timbers.