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    Soil nitrogen dynamics after fire in a boreal forest of Interior Alaska

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    Lyle, Susanne Elisabeth
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    Abstract
    This study is part of the FROSTFIRE experiment, a controlled bum of black spruce (BS) and mixed hardwood (MH) forest in the boreal zone of Interior Alaska in 1999. As part of the examination of post-burn changes in soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics, this study reports on active soil C and net N mineralization and nitrification in-situ over one year (beginning the year after the burn) in BS and MH stands. Total soil C and N concentrations and pools were higher in burned BS (BS-B) than in controls (BS-C), whereas MH stands (MH-B and MH-C) showed no fire effect. MH stands exhibited substantially higher net N mineralization and nitrification rates than equivalent BS stands. Annual net N mineralization was lower and annual net nitrification was much higher in MH-B stands than in controls, whereas it did not differ between BS-B Band BS-C. Potentially mineralizable soil C was substantially higher in BS than in MH and was lower in burned soils relative to controls. Findings indicate that post-fire soil N dynamics in Interior Alaska are highly dependent on forest type and that MH stands, but not BS, may be a large source of soil nitrate (NO₃⁻) after fire.
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    Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005
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    Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Soil temperature and moisture content -- Bulk densities and soil layer weights -- Soil C and N concentrations and pools -- Extractable NH₄ -N and NO₃⁻ -N -- Net N mineralization -- Nitrification -- Soil CO₂ efflux -- Discussion -- Soil temperature -- Soil moisture -- Bulk densities and soil layer weights -- Soil C and N concentrations and pools -- Extractable NH₄⁺ -N and NO₃ -N -- Net N mineralization and nitrification -- Soil CO₂ efflux -- Conclusions -- Figures -- Tables -- References.
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    2005-05
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