Microbe-mediated processes as indicators to establish the normal operating range of soil functioning

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 995-1002

  Pereira e Silva, Michele C ^a   Semenov, Alexander V ^a   Schmitt, Heike ^b   van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a   Salles, Joana Falcão ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disturbances; Indicators; Nitrification; NOR; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS; AMMONIA OXIDATION; DISTURBANCES; FIELD CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; NOR; NUTRIENT CYCLING PROCESS; OPERATING RANGES; SOIL FUNCTION; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL QUALITY;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIFICATION; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AMMONIA; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FIELD METHOD; NITRIFICATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY;

EID: 84873286303     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.10.002     Document Type: Review

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