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Fire Ecology I

Cobo & Carreira Fig. 7: Study results: Relation between nutrient pool sizes and erosion fluxes, 1989-1991

graph of nutrient pool sizes and erosion fluxes, showing inverse relationship between the two

  • Unit D, the reference plot, has not burned since at least the 1950s.
  • Unit C burned once, during the 1975 "baseline" fire.
  • Unit B burned twice, in 1975 and 1981.
  • Unit A burned three times, in 1975, 1981, and 1986.
  • C.I.C. = Cation interchange (or exchange) capacity

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