Soil water repellency and its implications for organic matter decomposition - is there a link to extreme climatic events?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2640-2656

  Goebel, Marc O ^a   Bachmann, Jörg ^a   Reichstein, Markus ^b   Janssens, Ivan A ^c   Guggenberger, Georg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aggregate stability; Carbon cycle; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Extreme climatic events; Hydrophobicity; Microbial respiration; Soil organic matter; Soil water repellency; Substrate availability

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; MINERALIZATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 79959922311     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02414.x     Document Type: Article

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