Greenhouse gas emissions after a prescribed fire in white birch-dwarf bamboo stands in northern Japan, focusing on the role of charcoal

• DOI: 10.1007/s10342-011-0490-8
• Publication Date: 2011-02-22T08:39:02Z
• Authors: Yong Suk Kim; Kobayashi Makoto; Fumiaki Takakai; Hideaki Shibata; Takami Satomura; Kentaro Takagi; Ryusuke Hatano; Takayoshi Koike
• Keywords: Charcoal; Litter; Soil carbon; Prescribed burn

Forest fires affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in forest ecosystems, and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere exchange of major greenhouse gases (GHGs): carbon dioxide (CO(2)), metha ...