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Soil Nutrient and Organic Matter Responses to Fire, Harvesting, and
Salvage logging in the Chisholm Fire
L. Nadeau for B. Kishchuk Canadian Forest Service
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Questions to be Addressed:
1. Which sites are more productive from a nutritional standpoint – harvested or burned?
2. What are factors responsible for differences in nutrient availability?
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Objectives
1. To identify properties of forest floor, mineral soil, and foliar nutrition under different types of disturbances
2. To identify the role of saproxylic beetle and bryophyte communities in the turnover of nutrients
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Four StudiesForest floor, mineral soil, and foliage properties
Fine woody debris decomposition
Bryophytes and fine woody debris decomposition
Saproxylic beetles and coarse woody debris decomposition
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Research plotsestablished in 2001 and 2002
Two stand typesMixedwoodSpruce
Four treatmentsBurnedSalvage loggedHarvestedControl
Three replicates
Total of 24 sites
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Forest Floor,
Mineral Soil,
Foliage Properties
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Forest Floor and Mineral Soils
At each of the 24 sites
Grid establishedForest floor and soil sampled at each point
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Physical and Chemical Analyses
Physical propertiesDepth, mass, bulk density
Chemical propertiespH, total and extractable N (ammonium and nitrate), C , P, S, exchangeable cations (K, Ca, Mg, Na), cation exchange capacity
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Statistical Analyses
Tested for normality and homogeneity
Analysis of variance
Separation of means using Tukey or TukeyKramer’s test
Bonferroni correction
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BurnedControlForest Floor Properties
Harvested site Salvage logged
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Forest Floor Properties
Physical properties of interest:Depth, mass, bulk density
Chemical properties of interest:Calcium, magnesium, carbon, pH, CEC
No consistent effects across disturbances
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Mineral Soil Properties
Physical properties of interest:Bulk density
Chemical properties of interest:Calcium, magnesium, carbon, pH, CEC
No consistent effects across disturbances
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FoliageRegenerating aspen foliage from mixedwoodstands
Leaves collected in 2003Nutrient concentration
variable
No consistent effects
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Fine Woody Debris
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Experimental design:
Same sites as the ones chosen for soils(24 sites)
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Chemical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously but done on woody debris
Statistical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously
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Chemical properties of interest over years:Intact woody debris
Carbon and available phosphorus decreasedAmmonium nitrogen increased
Fragmented woody debrisCarbon decreased
Intact vs fragmented woody debris:Total nitrogen and exchangeable calcium lower in fragmented woody debris than in intact woody debrisAmmonium nitrogen greatest in small, fragmented woody debris compared to large class size and intact debris
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Chemical properties of interest among treatments:
Ammonium nitrogen (P = 0.09)Control was higher than the three disturbance treatmentsPresence of mosses on control plots
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Bryophyte and Fine Woody Debris
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On one burned site:High moss/debrisLow moss/debrisHigh moss/no debrisLow moss/no debris
Three replicates
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Chemical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously but done on soil and woody debris
Statistical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously
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Chemical properties of interest over one year:
Fine woody debrisCarbon decreasedExchangeable calcium increased
SoilExchangeable calcium increased
No moss effect as was speculated
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Saproxylic Beetles and Woody Debris
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Logs inoculated with 0, 2 ,5 , 8 or 10 beetle larvae in enclosures
Four replicatesControl enclosures
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Chemical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously but done on soil
Statistical analyses Similar to the ones shown previously
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Chemical properties of interest :Total nitrogenAvailable phosphorus
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Summary• Effects of disturbances on soil properties were not
consistent across wildfire, salvage-logged and harvest treatments
• Changes in chemical composition of woody debris reflected decomposition over time, and was somewhat faster in fragmented debris
• Disturbance types did not have major effects on decomposition of fine woody debris
• Mosses did not affect decomposition of woody debris in one year
• Beetle larvae affected soil nitrogen and available phosphorus
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Conclusions
Unexplained variabilityFurther research required to identify other driving variables