Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Plenary Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Why evaluate soil organic matter models?

      • David S. Powlson

      Pages 3-11

   3. The Contribution of the Soil Organic Matter Network (SOMNET) to GCTE

      • P. J. Gregory, J. S. I. Ingram

      Pages 13-26

   4. Why Site Networks?

      • Edward T. Elliott, Keith Paustian

      Pages 27-36

   5. The North American Site Network

      • Keith Paustian, Edward T. Elliott, Eldor A. Paul, Harold P. Collins, C. Vernon Cole, Serita D. Frey

      Pages 37-54

   6. The Australian Site Network

      • Peter R. Grace

      Pages 55-67

   7. Long-term data sets from Germany and Eastern Europe

      • Martin Körschens

      Pages 69-80

   8. Establishing a European GCTE Soil Organic Matter Network (SOMNET)

      • Pete Smith, David Powlson, Margaret Glendining

      Pages 81-97

   9. Interpretation Difficulties with Long-Term Experiments

      • M. J. Glendining, P. R. Poulton

      Pages 99-109

   10. Review and Classification of Ten Soil Organic Matter (SOM) Models

       • William B. McGill

       Pages 111-132

   11. Ecosystem model comparisons: science or fantasy world?

       • William J. Parton

       Pages 133-142

   12. Matching Measurable Soil Organic Matter Fractions with Conceptual Pools in Simulation Models of Carbon Turnover: Revision of Model Structure

       • Bent T. Christensen

       Pages 143-159

   13. Modeling the Measurable or Measuring the Modelable: A Hierarchical Approach to Isolating Meaningful Soil Organic Matter Fractionations

       • Edward T. Elliott, Keith Paustian, Serita D. Frey

       Pages 161-179

   14. Quantitative methods to evaluate and compare Soil Organic Matter (SOM) Models

       • Jo Smith, Pete Smith, Tom Addiscott

       Pages 181-199

   15. Soil Organic Matter Models and Global Estimates of Soil Organic Carbon

       • W. M. Post, A. W. King, S. D. Wullschleger

       Pages 201-222

3. Soil Organic Matter Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. The Soil Submodel of the ITE (Edinburgh) Forest and Hurley Pasture Models

      • J. R. M. Arah

      Pages 225-230

   3. SOMM - a model of soil organic matter and nitrogen dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems

      • O. G. Chertov, A. S. Komarov

      Pages 231-236

   4. RothC-26.3 - A Model for the turnover of carbon in soil

      • K. Coleman, D. S. Jenkinson

      Pages 237-246

Soil organic matter (SOM) represents a major pool of carbon within the biosphere, roughly twice than in atmospheric CO2. SOM models embody our best understanding of soil carbon dynamics and are needed to predict how global environmental change will influence soil carbon stocks. These models are also required for evaluating the likely effectiveness of different mitigation options. The first important step towards systematically evaluating the suitability of SOM models for these purposes is to test their simulations against real data. Since changes in SOM occur slowly, long-term datasets are required. This volume brings together leading SOM model developers and experimentalists to test SOM models using long-term datasets from diverse ecosystems, land uses and climatic zones within the temperate region.

• Boden
• Globale Umweltveränderung
• Klimatologie
• Modellierung
• biosphere
• climatology
• ecosystem
• ecosystem research
• environment
• environmental change
• global environmental change
• modelling
• organic matter
• soil
• Ökosystemforschung

• Soil Science Department, IACR-Rothamsted, Hertfordshire, UK

  David S. Powlson, Pete Smith, Jo U. Smith

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