Microbial Respiration
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Evidence & Context
The calculated value of approximately 84 mg CO₂-C kg⁻¹ day⁻¹ represents a robust estimate for a high-functioning conservation rainforest.
Microbial respiration rate measured as the flux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the soil surface resulting from microbial metabolic activity.
Microbial respiration rate indicating the metabolic activity of soil microbes in a high-functioning conservation tropical rainforest ecosystem.
Derived from field-measured soil respiration in a primary forest analogue and converted to mass-based units using a soil bulk density of 0.65 g/cm³ specific to Australian tropical rainforest Ferrosols. Supported by peer-reviewed data from relevant, high-functioning ecosystems and transparent calculations.
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Reforestation, carbon sequestration and relationships between soil attributes in the Wet Tropics of Australia (Schmidt et al., 2014)
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