Assessing five evolving microbial enzyme models against field measurements from a semiarid savannah - What are the mechanisms of soil respiration pulses?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6428-6434

  Zhang, Xia ^a,b   Niu, Guo Yue ^b   Elshall, Ahmed S ^c   Ye, Ming ^c   Barron Gafford, Greg A ^b   Pavao Zuckerman, Mitch ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birch effect; climate change; extracellular enzyme; land surface model; microbial respiration; soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ENZYMES; LAKES; MICROORGANISMS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; ORGANIC CARBON; PULSE GENERATORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; STORMS;

BIRCH EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAND SURFACE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION;

EID: 84911191318     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061399     Document Type: Article

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