Lunch seminar: Soil Respiration - A Geochemist's Perspective

Soil respiration is a key ecosystem function and an important component of the global carbon cycle. In this Focus on Soils & Water lunch seminar, Philippe will review some of the geochemical controls on organic carbon degradation processes in soils with an emphasis on lowland environments. He will also provide information on a new international research partnership in cold regions ecohydrogeology between Canada (University of Waterloo, UW), China (China University of Geosciences, CUG), Russia (Moscow State University, MSU), University of Rennes (France) and Sweden (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU).