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soil moisture limitations — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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soil moisture limitations

Scope: biogeochemistry

Papers: 8 | Mentions: 10

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Knowledge graph centered on soil moisture limitations with 72 nodes and 154 connections. Top connected: Plant functional trait change across a warming tun, Global warming and soil microclimate: results from, Spruce, Potentilla, climate change.

Definition

The constraint of microbial activity and carbon respiration by water availability in soil systems

Related Terms (3)

rain pulse responsemoisture limitationwater limitation

Publications (9)

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

2025Hydrological Processescontext

Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

2022Ecology and Evolutionmeasured variable

A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration

2021Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciencemeasured variable

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

2020Remote Sensingprimary focus

Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

2020Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencestested

Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencesprimary focus

Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Related Concepts (10)

soil respiration

process11 shared papers

leaf water content

measurement9 shared papers

nitrogen retention

process8 shared papers

snowpack persistence

process7 shared papers

thermal constraints

process6 shared papers

carbon cycling

process6 shared papers

climate change

phenomenon6 shared papers

air temperature

measurement5 shared papers

groundwater storage dynamics

process5 shared papers

soil organic carbon stabilization

process5 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Spruce

Cinnamomum camphora

Lauraceae2 papers

Potentilla

Rosaceae2 papers

terrestrial organisms

Veratrum

Melanthiaceae2 papers

Picea abies

Pinaceae2 papers

Pinus elliottii

Pinaceae2 papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae2 papers

Bacteria

Liquidambar formosana

central

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018Natureanalysis

Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological Applicationscentral