Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Community Structure in a Soil Porous System
Year:2012

Research Areas
  • Physics chemical and mathematical

Information
Abstract
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.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Soil Science
ISBN
0038-075X
Impact factor JCR
1,144
Impact info
Volume
177
10.1097/SS.0b013e318245d3ec
Journal number
2
From page
81
To page
87
Month
FEBRERO
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Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • 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