Hot water extractable carbon

URI: https://soilwise-he.github.io/soil-health#HotWaterExtractableCarbon

Definition

Hot water extractable carbon represents the labile fraction of the total soil organic carbon (SOC) pool and includes microbial carbon and carbon and nitrogen sources that are readily available to microbes

Broaders

• microbial biomass indicators

hasAbbreviation

HWC

includes

• isAvailableFor: Microbes
• object: CarbonSources
• object: NitrogenSources

includes

microbial carbon

RO_0017003

soil organic carbon

source

Gaublomme2006

SIO_000210

labile fraction of total soil organic carbon pool