Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Committee Member Lajtha, Kate Degree Level Bachelor's

Soil Fire Ecology: Assessing Wildfire Severity Impacts on Pacific Northwest Forest Soil Carbon

Creator:

Fleetwood, Shea

Abstract:

Pacific Northwest temperate rainforests are anticipated to experience increasingly frequent and severe wildfires in the foreseeable future due to climate change, increased fuel loads, and deforestation. Soil, underlying these forests, is the largest terrestrial carbon (“C”) reservoir. Fire disturbance influences soil C persistence, the timeframe and magnitude of which remain...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis
Detrital Input and Removal Treatment (DIRT) Network Soil Analysis in the UMBS Michigan Field Site

Creator:

Bushyhead, Coryn N.

Abstract:

Soil contains approximately 75% of the carbon pool on land - three times more than the amount stored in living plants and animals (Schlesinger 1999). Therefore, soils play a major role in maintaining a balanced global carbon cycle. Models of the soil carbon ecosystem assume a strong relationship between organic...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis