One-week habitation of two humans in an airtight facility with two goats and 23 crops - Analysis of carbon, oxygen, and water circulation

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 714-724

  Tako, Y ^a   Tsuga, S ^a   Tani, T ^a   Arai, R ^a   Komatsubara, O ^a   Shinohara, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALSS; Artificial ecosystem; Biomass; C 13; C 14; Carbon transfer; CELSS; Closed Ecology Experiment Facilities; Crops; Eco nauts; Gas balance; Goats; Habitation; Material circulation; Water balance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; NUCLEAR FUELS; OXYGEN; WATER;

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; CLOSED ECOLOGY EXPERIMENT FACILITIES; MATERIAL CIRCULATION;

CARBON;

EID: 38749100161     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.09.023     Document Type: Article

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