Experimental Open Air Burning of Vegetation Enhances Organic Matter Chemical Heterogeneity Compared to Laboratory Burns
Allison N. Myers-Pigg,
Samantha Grieger,
J. Alan Roebuck
et al.
Abstract:Wildfires
produce solid residuals that have unique chemical and
physical properties compared to unburned materials, which influence
their cycling and fate in the natural environment. Visual burn severity
assessment is used to evaluate post-fire alterations to the landscape
in field-based studies, yet muffle furnace methods are commonly used
in laboratory studies to assess molecular scale alterations along
a temperature continuum. Here, we examined solid and leachable organic
matter characteristics from chars v… Show more
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