Looking at #soil heterotrophic respiration (Rh) through the lens of precipitation driven biomass dynamics. Hourly Rh & precip from #FluxNet sites were correlated via soil moisture within a biomass framework.

Huang etal 2021 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2115283118 found that precip can be a significant explainer of temperature corrected Rh

#Soil #Biogeochemistry #ScientificLiterature #CriticalZone #FluxTower #MicrobesInClimateModels

[Personal note - Clever use of 'microbial' models here!]

A reading list from the American Society for Microbiology on #MicrobesInClimateModels:

• Academy Colloquium Report: Incorporating Microbial Processes into Climate Models 2011 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK561255/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK561255.pdf
• Academy Colloquium Report: Microbes and Climate Change - Science, People & Impacts (2021) Microbes in Models And Data Systems chapter) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK580166/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK580166.pdf
• Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models (2015) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GB005188

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