20 concepts
Dimensionless number comparing transport timescale to reaction timescale, used to determine whether transport or reaction processes dominate
Quantitative measure of the sensitivity of weathering rates to changes in atmospheric CO2, characterized by 1st and 2nd order components
Quantitative measurement of the relative amounts of different organic functional groups (carbonyl, aliphatic, amide, quinonic, aromatic, phenolic, polysaccharide) in soil organic matter
A measure directly related to the amount of energy required for microbial oxidation of a given compound, with higher NOSC values correlating to lower ΔGox and greater energy yield
The elapsed time carbon atoms spend in the soil, characterizing the age structure of output flux from the soil
The average time required for dead wood to decompose, calculated as the inverse of the decay rate constant