| Title | The effects of soil moisture and soil temperature on decomposition of chitin and chitin containing complexes in soil |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 1971 |
| Authors | Wahlquist BT |
| Date Published | 1971 |
| University | New Mexico State University |
| City | Las Cruces, New Mexico |
| Thesis Type | Ph.D. Dissertation |
| Call Number | 00352 |
| Keywords | chitin,decomposition, decomposition,chitin, decomposition,soil moisture, decomposition,soil temperature, dissertation, dissertations, theses, thesis |
| Abstract | Decomposition studies were conducted using soil collected from the fringe of the playa utilized as the IBP Desert Jornada site. Commercial chitin, larvae casts and a mixture of elytra and thorax cuticle from mature adults of Tenebrio molitor L. were used as soil amendments.... A mathematical model to predict chitin decomposition rates at intermediate moisture-temperature combinations was constructed. A predictive third order regression curve for chitin decomposition at 25 C - 40% moisture was generated that had a correlation coefficient of 0.9623 with regression curve of actual data obtained from a validation study. |
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