Vulnerability of Soil Organic Matter to Microbial Decomposition as a Consequence of Burning

• Main Authors: Dicen, Gerald P, Rallos, Roland V, Labides, John Leonard R, Navarrete, Ian A
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Carbon emission; Fire; Greenhouse gases; Soil organic matter microbial decomposition; Stable isotopes; Water-extractable organic matter; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate; Environmental Sciences; Soil Science
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/es-faculty-pubs/89; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-020-00688-1
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Ecosystem fires are stochastic and anthropogenic phenomena that affect critical soil processes. Nevertheless, environmental managers, policy-makers, and even scientists have often overlooked the induced transformations that fire does to soil organic matter (SOM), which sustains an ecosystem’s overal...