On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration

This data package accompanies manuscript entitled "On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration" by Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Benjamin Sulman, Chelsea L. Arnol, Nathaniel A. Bogie and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, published in Biogeosciences (2019)
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Contents:There are two self-contained R files that fit the proposed respiration model to experimental data. The codes are well anottated and self-explanatory. They read raw and proceesed data from accompanying folders and produce tabulated outputs and figures. A figures folder contains all the figures that are included in the paper and generated by these codes.
Both R codes will load the required packages at the start of execution.
Data used for model testing were obtained by one the following:1. Digitizing published figures2. Supplemental materials published by other researchers.
Data sources for this study are:1. Moyano, F. E., Vasilyeva, N., Bouckaert, L., Cook, F., Craine, J., Yuste, J.C., Don, A., Epron, D., Formanek, P., Franzluebbers, A., Ilstedt, U., Kätterer, T., Orchard, V., Reichstein, M., Rey, A., Ruamps, L., Subke, J. A., Thomsen, I. K. and Chenu, C.: The moisture response of soil heterotrophic respiration: interaction with soil properties, Biogeosciences, 9(3), 1173–1182, doi:10.5194/bg-9-1173-2012, 2012.
2.Arnold, C., Ghezzehei, T. A. and Berhe, A. A.: Decomposition of distinct organic matter pools is regulated by moisture status in structured wetland soils, Soil Biol Biochem, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.10.029, 2015.
3. Miller, A. E., Schimel, J. P., Meixner, T., Sickman, J. O. and Melack, J. M.: Episodic rewetting enhances carbon and nitrogen release from chaparral soils, Soil Biol Biochem Soil Biol Biochem, 37(12), 2195–2204, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.03.021, 2005.