Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1782-1800

  Wieder, William R ^a   Allison, Steven D ^b   Davidson, Eric A ^c   Georgiou, Katerina ^d,e   Hararuk, Oleksandra ^f   He, Yujie ^b,g   Hopkins, Francesca ^b,h   Luo, Yiqi ⁱ   Smith, Matthew J ^j   Sulman, Benjamin ^k   Todd Brown, Katherine ^i,l   Wang, Ying Ping ^m   Xia, Jianyang ^i,n   Xu, Xiaofeng ^o  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^j MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^k INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁿ EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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Author keywords

biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling; carbon cycling; Earth system modeling; microbe mineral interactions; soils pedology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECOMPOSITION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDOLOGY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABILIZATION;

EID: 84946543320     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005188     Document Type: Article

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