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Community Structure in a Soil Porous System
Año:2012
Áreas de investigación
  • Física química y matemáticas
Datos
Descripción
Soil is well recognized as a highly complex system. The interaction and coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes and phenomena occurring in the soil environment at different spatial and temporal scales are the main reasons for such complexity. There is a need for appropriate methodologies to characterize soil porous systems with an interdisciplinary character. Four different real soil samples, presenting different textures, have been modeled as heterogeneous complex networks, applying a model known as the heterogeneous preferential attachment. An analytical study of the degree distributions in the soil model shows a multiscaling behavior in the connectivity degrees, leaving an empirically testable signature of heterogeneity in the topology of soil pore networks. We also show that the power-law scaling in the degree distribution is a robust trait of the soil model. Last, the detection of spatial pore communities, as densely connected groups with only sparser connections between them, has been studied for the first time in these soil networks. Our results show that the presence of these communities depends on the parameter values used to construct the network. These findings could contribute to understanding the mechanisms of the diffusion phenomena in soils, such as gas and water diffusion, development and dynamics of microorganisms, among others.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Soil Science
ISSN
0038-075X
Factor de impacto JCR
1,144
Información de impacto
Volumen
177
DOI
10.1097/SS.0b013e318245d3ec
Número de revista
2
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81
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Participantes
  • Autor: Juan Pablo Cárdenas Villalobos (UPM)
  • Autor: Antonio Santiago Andrés (UPM)
  • Autor: Ana Maria Tarquis Alfonso (UPM)
  • Autor: Juan Carlos Losada Gonzalez (UPM)
  • Autor: Florentino Borondo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • Autor: Rosa Maria Benito Zafrilla (UPM)
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Automatización en Señal y Comunicaciones (GASC)
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Estudios e Investigación para la Gestión de Riesgos Agrarios Medioambientales (CEIGRAM)
  • Departamento: Física y Mecánica Fundamentales y Aplicada a la Ingeniería Agroforestal
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