How does carbon affect soil structure?
Soil structure plays an important role in maintaining the quality of soil, mediating important biological, chemical and physical soil processes. Soil structure determines water retention, and infiltration, hence water availability to plants, it also has the potential to sequester carbon. Although it has been well known that soil organic carbon interacts and influences the formation of soil structure, there is little evidence of attempts being made to directly describe this relationship using mechanistic models. This project will build and validate a mechanistic model of soil carbon dynamics.
