Soil microbial biomass and its activity estimated by kinetic respiration analysis - Statistical guidelines

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-112

  Wutzler, Thomas ^a   Blagodatsky, Sergey A ^b,c   Blagodatskaya, Evgenia ^c   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microbial activity; Microbial biomass; Microbial growth rate; Non linear regression; Respiration kinetics; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL GROWTH RATE; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; RESPIRATION KINETICS;

BIOMASS; CURVE FITTING; DATA HANDLING; ECOLOGY; GLUCOSE; GROWTH KINETICS; GROWTH RATE; KINETICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOILS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; DATA SET; GROWTH RATE; GUIDELINE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONLINEARITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82055166000     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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