Linking food webs to ecosystem processes: Piecewise linear models of soil microcosms

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 87-94

  Nieminen, Jouni K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fungus nematode food chain; Mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen mineralization; Piecewise linear model; Pine growth

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CANNING; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDING; FOOD PRESERVATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOILS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AMMONIUM DYNAMICS; AMMONIUM NITROGEN; BIOMASS DYNAMICS; DECOMPOSER; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; FOOD CHAINS; FOOD WEBS; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; MYCORRHIZAL FUNGUS; N-MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN MODELS; PIECE WISE LINEAR (PWL) MODELS; PIECE-WISE LINEAR (PWL); PINE SEEDLINGS; PLANT GROWTH RATE; SOIL MICROCOSMS; SOIL NITROGEN DYNAMICS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AMMONIUM; DETRITUS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FUNGUS; MINERALIZATION; NEMATODE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

FUNGI; NEMATODA;

EID: 48149092145     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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