Microscale heterogeneity explains experimental variability and non-linearity in soil organic matter mineralisation
- Submitting institution
-
Abertay University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 17661731
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1371/journal.pone.0123774
- Title of journal
- PLoS One
- Article number
- e0123774
- First page
- -
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
https://figshare.com/collections/Biophysical_modelling_of_soil_organic_matter_dynamics_/2068637
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
5
- Research group(s)
-
D - Modelling & Simulation
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Our theoretical framework of the soil-fungal complex was applied in the study of soil organic matter degradation. Abertay were invited as partners onto the MEPSOM project (ANR French research council, 2009-2014). This paper demonstrated the significance of microscale soil structure, quantified by X-Ray CT, on ecosystems services mediated by fungi. The ideas presented within were subsequently translated to the bacterial-soil complex. The modelling work is now being applied to understand ecosystems service delivery as provided by urban soils and is currently supported by NERC through collaborations with Cranfield and Essex Universities (via projects NE/S004920/1 and NE/P014208/1).
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
