%0 Journal Article
%T Monitoring fire impacts in soil water repellency and structure stability during 6 years
%A A.J. Gordillo-Rivero
%A J. Garc¨Şa-Moreno
%A A. Jord¨˘n
%A L. Zavala
%J Flamma
%D 2013
%I FuegoRed
%X Wildfires induce a series of soil changes affecting their physical and chemical properties and the hydrological and erosive response. Two of the properties that are commonly affected by burning are soil water repellency and structural stability. This paper carries out the study and monitoring of water repellency and soil structural stability during a period of 6 years after fire in calcareous soils of southern Spain in different aggregate size fractions (<2, 1-2, 0.5-1 and 0.25-0.5 mm). During this time, it was observed that both properties showed different tendencies in different aggregate size fractions. It was observed that water repellency increased after fire especially in the finer fractions (0.25-0.5 mm). Structural stability increased significantly after the fire and was progressively reduced during the experimental period.
%K Soil water repellency
%K Aggregate stability
%K Wildfires
%U https://sites.google.com/site/flammafgr/texto/volumen-4-2013/4-2-2013/4_2_2/4_2_2.pdf?attredirects=0