Bioavailability and isotopic composition of CO2 released from incubated soil organic matter fractions

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 168-178

  Mueller, Carsten W ^a   Gutsch, Martin ^b   Kothieringer, Katja ^c,f   Leifeld, Jens ^d   Rethemeyer, Janet ^e   Brueggemann, Nicolas ^c,g   Kögel Knabner, Ingrid ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^g FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density fractionation; Heterotrophic respiration; Laboratory incubation; Mean residence time; Microbial biomass; Particle size fractionation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILT; STABILIZATION;

DENSITY FRACTIONATIONS; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGGREGATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; RESIDENCE TIME; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; STABILIZATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84896932221     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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