Abstract
There are a number of approaches to modeling soil organic matter turnover including: 1) process-based multicompartment models; 2) models that consider each fresh addition of plant debris as a separate cohort which decays in a continuous way; and 3) models that account for carbon and nitrogen transfers through various trophic levels in a soil food web. These approaches are described in more detail below.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOIL SCIENCE, VOLS I-III, 3RD EDITION |
| Editors | R Lal |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 2159-2165 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4987-8699-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- SIMULATING TRENDS
- CARBON TURNOVER
- NITROGEN
- DYNAMICS
- DECOMPOSITION
- RATES
- WATER
- SENSITIVITY
- EROSION
- SYSTEMS