Processes of soil carbon dynamics and ecosystem carbon cycling in a changing world

Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 396-428

  Heitkamp, Felix ^a,b   Jacobs, Anna ^c   Jungkunst, Hermann F ^a   Heinze, Stefanie ^d   Wendland, Matthias ^e   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Sugar Beet Research   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e Institut fur Agrarokologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhenius equation; Autotrophic organisms; Biochemical recalcitrance; Climate change; CO2 fertilization; CO2 fertilization effect; Depolymerization; Ecosystem C cycling; Extreme weather events; FACE experiments; Litter decomposition; Mean residence time; Organo mineral associations; Priming effect; Rate constant; Residues incorporation; Respiration; Rhizodeposition; Rhizosphere respiration; Root litter; Roth C model; SOC dynamics; Soil fauna; Soil organic matter; Soil organic matter fractions; Soil respiration; Spatial inaccessibility; Spectroscopic methods; Stabilization of soil organic carbon; Substrate; Temperature sensitivity; Temperature sensitivity (Q10); Thermal stability; Van't Hoff equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949231544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4159-1_18     Document Type: Chapter

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