Substrate and environmental controls on microbial assimilation of soil organic carbon: A framework for Earth system models

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 547-555

  Xu, Xiaofeng ^a   Schimel, Joshua P ^b   Thornton, Peter E ^a   Song, Xia ^a   Yuan, Fengming ^a   Goswami, Santonu ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative microbial activity index; Microbial annual active period; Microbial assimilation; Substrate quality

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CUMULATIVE MICROBIAL ACTIVITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENT; LETTER; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ANNUAL ACTIVE PERIOD; MICROBIAL ASSIMILATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; SUBSTRATE QUALITY;

CUMULATIVE MICROBIAL ACTIVITY INDEX; MICROBIAL ANNUAL ACTIVE PERIOD; MICROBIAL ASSIMILATION; SUBSTRATE QUALITY;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84898057463     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12254     Document Type: Article

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