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SUBMITTER: Yan Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028431 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yan Zhifeng Z Bond-Lamberty Ben B Todd-Brown Katherine E KE Bailey Vanessa L VL Li SiLiang S Liu CongQiang C Liu Chongxuan C
Nature communications 20180702 1
Soil heterotrophic respiration (HR) is an important source of soil-to-atmosphere CO<sub>2</sub> flux, but its response to changes in soil water content (θ) is poorly understood. Earth system models commonly use empirical moisture functions to describe the HR-θ relationship, introducing significant uncertainty in predicting CO<sub>2</sub> flux from soils. Generalized, mechanistic models that address this uncertainty are thus urgently needed. Here we derive, test, and calibrate a novel moisture fu ...[more]