SoilR (version 1.1-23)

fW.Skopp: Effects of moisture on decomposition rates according to the function proposed by Skopp et al. 1990

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

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))