Essays about: "forest firest"

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  1. 1. A high resolution analysis of macroscopic charcoal deposited in peat

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : David Ventorp; [2007]
    Keywords : macrocharcoal; sieving; dendrochronology; peat; forest firest; in-situ; ex-situ;

    Abstract : The amount of macroscopic charcoal in the top 25 cm of three cores from a peat land in Hornsö Ecopark, south-eastern Sweden, was compared to the dendrochronology inferred fire history of the site. Because of the occurrence of a recent fire ex-situ (1999) and one fire ¬in-situ inferred by three fire scared Scots pines, Pinus sylvestris, adjacent (5-10 m) to the peat cores, the site provided an excellent opportunity to compare the abundance of charcoal deposited in a peat land after fires in-situ and ex-situ. READ MORE