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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.'
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- 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
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