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In SoilR: Models of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition

Description

Calculates the effects of relative soil water content on decomposition rates.

Usage

fW.Skopp(rwc, alpha = 2, beta = 2, f = 1.3, g = 0.8)

Arguments

rwc	relative water content
alpha	Empirical parameter
beta	Empirical parameter
f	Empirical parameter
g	Empirical parameter

Author(s)

Carlos A. Sierra, Markus Mueller

References

J. Skopp, M. D. Jawson, and J. W. Doran. 1990. Steady-state aerobic microbial activity as a function of soil water content. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 54(6):1619-1625

Examples

th=seq(0,1,0.01)
xi=fW.Skopp(rwc=th)
plot(th,xi,type="l",main="Effects of soil water content on decomposition rates",
     xlab="Relative water content",ylab=expression(xi))

SoilR documentation built on May 4, 2017, 9:08 p.m.