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Creator:: Keirstead, Heath
Abstract:: The mechanisms governing short- and long-term belowground carbon dynamics need to be understood. As part of a larger project developed to assess the effect of quantity and quality of litter inputs on the rate of soil organic matter (SOM) formation, I examined SOM in the H. J. Andrews Detritus Input...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Heath Keirstead for the degree of

Creator:: Brant, Justin B.
Abstract:: Most carbon (C) transformations in soil are carried out by a diverse and complex soil microbial community. The size and composition of the soil microbial community is determined by poorly understood interactions between the quantity and chemical composition of plant inputs, as well as climate. Given the metabolic diversity of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Heath Keirstead, and Lisa Brutcher for help with lab incubations, they certainly would not have been

Creator:: Murphey, Virginia L. W.
Abstract:: There is a growing consensus that anthropogenic warming will impact soil organic matter (SOM). Globally, soil contains 2-3 times more carbon (C) than plants, and like plants, temperature induced change of SOM could have significant climate repercussions. Although, the majority of warming experiments have increased day and night temperatures equally,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Robins, Colin R.
Abstract:: In unstable landscapes, modern pedological research explores the role of soils as products and indicators of geomorphologic change. Understanding the dynamics of hill slope pedogenesis is especially important in regions with limited, poor, or threatened soil resources. The island of Cyprus, situated in the eastern Mediterranean, is claimed by many...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Lyman-Holz for all their assistance, stories, and understanding; to Candace Banners, Eric Gale, Heath

Creator:: Gale, Eric S.
Abstract:: In order to properly utilize organic amendments as nitrogen sources, reliable methods to estimate plant-available nitrogen (PAN) are needed. The objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate the use of crop and soil responses in fertilizer N equivalence (FNE) calculations, (2) examine the relationships between the C/N ratio, total...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Cohn Robins, Heath Keirstead, Teresa Matteson, Charirat Kusonwiriyawong, and Dan Franek. Joan Sandeno

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