Microbial Respiration
Benchmark Value
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Evidence & Context
Lower Critical Threshold: A ~50% reduction from this benchmark (i.e., <45 mg CO₂-C/kg/day) indicates significant functional impairment, consistent with degradation from a conservation to a production agriculture state.
Microbial respiration rate indicating functional impairment when below threshold.
Threshold below which microbial respiration indicates significant ecosystem functional impairment in tropical rainforest under conservation management.
Based on evidence of a halving of microbial biomass and respiration rates in agricultural conversion and disturbance studies in the Australian Wet Tropics.
Sources (1)
Reforestation, carbon sequestration and relationships between soil attributes in the Wet Tropics of Australia (Schmidt et al., 2014)
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