Model of apparent and real priming effects: Linking microbial activity with soil organic matter decomposition

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1275-1283

  Blagodatsky, Sergey ^b,c   Blagodatskaya, Evgenia ^a,b   Yuyukina, Tatyana ^a   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

14C; Apparent and real priming effects; Carbon turnover; Microbial biomass activity; Modeling of decomposition; Soil organic matter turnover

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; C AND N DYNAMICS; CARBON TURNOVER; DECOMPOSABILITY; DECOMPOSITION RATE; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL TURNOVER; NEW MODEL; PARAMETERIZED; PRIMING EFFECTS; SEQUENTIAL DECOMPOSITION; SIMPLE MODEL; SIMULATION RESULT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER TURNOVER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOLUBLE SUBSTRATES; SOM DECOMPOSITION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; GLUCOSE; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS; SUBSTRATES;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DECOMPOSITION; GLUCOSE; LUVISOL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TURNOVER;

EID: 77954814860     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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