Effects of prescribed fire on topsoil properties: a small-scale straw burning experiment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F22%3A43922370" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/22:43922370 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68407700:21110/22:00360887
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2022-0032" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2022-0032</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/johh-2022-0032" target="_blank" >10.2478/johh-2022-0032</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of prescribed fire on topsoil properties: a small-scale straw burning experiment
Original language description
A grassland was burned to investigate how a short prescribed fire affected soil physical and hydraulic properties, soil water balance, and emergent vegetation. Three years before the experiment at Řisuty, Czech Republic, the grassland was re-established on arable soil. At the experimental site there is a weather station and sensors measuring soil temperature and moisture at three different depths. The 5 m x 5 m burned plot was compared to a nearby unburned reference location. The loamy Cambisol soil was not water-repellent. 250 m2 of sun-dried grass was raked and burned at the burned plot. The fire lasted approximately 15-minute and reached 700 oC. Soil samples were taken immediately after the fire and weekly to monthly thereafter to quantify organic carbon content, soil structure stability, hydraulic conductivity, bulk density, and texture. According to the research results, it appears that temporary burning improved the hydraulic properties of the topsoil. The fire plot's infiltration capacity was increased, and soil water content was higher than the control plot throughout the year, providing suitable habitat for colonizing vegetation. The results suggest that small-scale controlled biomass burning can be risk-free to the soil ecosystem and may even temporarily improve the hydraulic properties of the upper soil layer.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTC20001" target="_blank" >LTC20001: Fire effects on soils</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
ISSN
0042-790X
e-ISSN
1338-4333
Volume of the periodical
70
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
450-461
UT code for WoS article
000884434100008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85143062566