Quantitative imaging of the 3-D distribution of organic carbon in naturally structured soil using joint neutron and X-ray imaging

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Soil organic carbon is of key importance for soil functioning. It strongly impacts soil fertility, greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient retention, and contaminant degradation properties. Equally fundamental to soil functions is the soil pore network architecture. It determines how oxygen, water and nutrients are transported and exchanged in soil. For a thorough understanding of the latter, the soil pore network architecture needs to be evaluated alongside with the distribution of soil organic carbon relative to it. It is meanwhile possible to non-invasively map the soil pore network architecture in high detail using X-ray imaging. Methods for quantifying the spatial distribution of carbon at a similar level of detail are yet to be found. Joint neutron and X-ray imaging have shown potential to deliver such data. It is the aim of this project to use explore such an approach in detail.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910494-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103211016
Provenance
Creator Dr Mats Larsbo; Dr Magnus Simonsson; Mr Jumpei Fukumasu; Dr Anke Herrmann; Dr John Koestel; Dr Genoveva Burca
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-06-09T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-06-17T23:51:39Z