A new, offer versus demand, modelling approach to assess the impact of micro-organisms spatio-temporal population dynamics on soil organic matter decomposition rates

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 209, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 301-313

  Cambier, C ^a,b,d   Bousso, M ^a,b   Masse, D ^c   Perrier, E ^a,e  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Decomposition rate; Individual based modelling; Micro organisms; Multi agent simulations; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

INDIVIDUAL BASED MODELING; MULTI AGENT SIMULATIONS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

MICROORGANISMS;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MICROORGANISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35948943475     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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