Patch Burning: Implications on Water Erosion and Soil Properties

dc.contributor.authorParlak, Altingul Ozaslan
dc.contributor.authorParlak, Mehmet
dc.contributor.authorBlanco-Canqui, Humberto
dc.contributor.authorSchacht, Walter H.
dc.contributor.authorGuretzky, John A.
dc.contributor.authorMamo, Martha
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:52:30Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:52:30Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPatch burning can be a potential management tool to create grassland heterogeneity and enhance forage productivity and plant biodiversity, but its impacts on soil and environment have not been widely documented. In summer 2013, we studied the effect of time after patch burning (4 mo after burning [recently burned patches], 16 mo after burning [older burned patches], and unburned patches [control]) on vegetative cover, water erosion, and soil properties on a patch-burn experiment established in 2011 on a Yutan silty clay loam near Mead, NE. The recently burned patches had 29 +/- 8.0% (mean +/- SD) more bare ground, 21 +/- 1.4% less canopy cover, and 40 +/- 11% less litter cover than older burned and unburned patches. Bare ground and canopy cover did not differ between the older burned and unburned patches, indicating that vegetation recovered. Runoff depth from the older burned and recently burned patches was 2.8 times (19.6 +/- 4.1 vs. 7.1 +/- 3.0 mm [mean +/- SD]) greater than the unburned patches. The recently burned patches had 4.5 times greater sediment loss (293 +/- 89 vs. 65 +/- 56 g m(-2)) and 3.8 times greater sediment-associated organic C loss (9.2 +/- 2.0 vs. 2.4 +/- 1.9 g m(-2)) than the older burned and unburned patches. The recently burned patches had increased daytime soil temperature but no differences in soil compaction and structural properties, dissolved nutrients, soil C, and total N concentration relative to older burned and unburned patches. Overall, recently burned patches can have reduced canopy and litter cover and increased water erosion, but soil properties may not differ from older burn or unburned patches under the conditions of this study.
dc.identifier.doi10.2134/jeq2014.12.0523
dc.identifier.endpage909
dc.identifier.issn0047-2425
dc.identifier.issn1537-2537
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.pmid26024270
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84929462323
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage903
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2014.12.0523
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/25782
dc.identifier.volume44
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000353637200017
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Environmental Quality
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectPrescribed Fire
dc.subjectPostfire Runoff
dc.subjectVegetation
dc.subjectNitrogen
dc.subjectWildfire
dc.subjectForests
dc.titlePatch Burning: Implications on Water Erosion and Soil Properties
dc.typeArticle

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