Substantial rewetting phenomena on soil respiration can be observed at low water availability

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1577-1579

  Fischer, Thomas ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Soil respiration; Soil rewetting; Soil water potential

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW WATER; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; ORGANIC LAYERS; RE-WETTING; SOIL ORGANISMS; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; WATER ACCESSIBILITY; WATER POTENTIAL;

SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS;

FORESTRY;

METABOLISM; REWETTING; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL RESPIRATION; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 67349089007     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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