Dead wood
by Antonio Jordán, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
When crop residues fall to soil after the death of plants, organic compounds undergo decomposition. Decomposition is a biological process that includes physical decomposition (fragmentation) and transformation of organic complex biochemicals in simpler organic molecules (sugar, aminoacids, etc.) and inorganic molecules (salts). With time and microbial activity, new complex organic molecules (humus) are formed.
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- Europe (3773)
- Southern Europe (1625)
- Spain (782)
- Exact location (-6.5666 W, 37.0481 N)
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2012
Submitted on 12 May 2015
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Antonio Jordán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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