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Project ID: 99-1-3-13

Year: 1999

Date Started: 09/10/1999

Date Completed: 05/13/2004

Title: Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling by Microbial Decomposers Following Thinning and Burning in a Southwest Ponderosa Pine Ecosystem

Project Proposal Abstract: Determination of impacts to functional decomposer populations and their role in C and N cycling following different levels of mechanical thinning and interaction with fire will allow better prescriptions that maintain soil quality and ecosystem sustainability. Southwest ponderosa pine ecosystems are nitrogen limited, therefore determining thinning levels and burning effects that provide plant available N without reducing the long-term total N pool is essential. By incorporation of practices that mitigate detrimental affects to microbial populations, long-term stability in soil quality and N available for plant growth, will greatly improve chances to succeed in creating vegetative communities of these fire-prone forest ecosystems that reduce the hazards of catastrophic fire.

Principal Investigator: Daniel G. Neary

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Southwest Forest Science Complex

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Federal Cooperator	Daniel G. Neary	Forest Service	RMRS-Southwest Forest Science Complex

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Southern Rockies

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Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

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