Estimation of plant litter pools and decomposition-related parameters in a mechanistic model

Plant and Soil

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 205-222

  Borgen, Signe Kynding ^a   Molstad, Lars ^a   Bruun, Sander ^b   Breland, Tor Arvid ^a   Bakken, Lars Reier ^a   Bleken, Marina Azzaroli ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

N mineralization immobilization; Near infrared reflectance spectrometry (NIR); Neutral detergent soluble (NDS); Optimization; Soil organic matter model

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DECOMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FUNGUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LEAF LITTER; MINERALIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT RESIDUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 78650304830     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0404-4     Document Type: Article

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