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Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1187-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1187-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
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On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration

Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Benjamin Sulman, Chelsea L. Arnold, Nathaniel A. Bogie, and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

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Soil water is a medium from which microbes acquire resources and within which they are able to move. Occupancy and availability of water and oxygen gas in soils are mutually exclusive. In addition, as soil dries the remaining water is held with an increasing degree of adhesive energy, which restricts microbes' ability to extract resources from water. We introduce a mathematical model that describes these interacting effects and organic matter decomposition.
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