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

This data package accompanies manuscript entitled "<b>On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration</b>" by Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Benjamin Sulman, Chelsea L. Arnol, Nathaniel A. Bogie and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, published in Biogeosciences (2019)<br>For additional information contact Soil Physics Lab at UC Merced (https://soilphysics.ucmerced.edu) [e-mail]<br><b>Contents</b>: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. <br>Both R codes will load the required packages at the start of execution.<br>Data used for model testing were obtained by one the following:1. Digitizing published figures2. Supplemental materials published by other researchers.<br><b>Data sources for this study are</b>: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.<br>