Heterotrophic_respiration

Heterotrophic respiration

Rh is the sum over carbon emissions from three carbon pools (litter, intermediate and slow soil organic matter), for each PFT. Each pool has an assigned turnover rate (0.3, 0.03 and 0.001 a^-1 at 10°C, resp.) and decomposition rates are calculated as a function of turnover rate, air and soil temperature and moisture. The temperature sensitivity of Rh is an Arrhenius type function with decreasing Q10 values (Lloyd & Taylor, 1994).

Technical Notes

Main function(s)

littersom.c

Input and parameters

Parameters are defined in param.par or lpjparam.js respectively

References

Lloyd J, Taylor J (1994) On the temperature dependence of soil respiration. Functional ecology, 8, 315–323.