Rh is the sum over carbon emissions from three carbon pools (litter, intermediate and slow soil organic matter), for each PFT. Each pool has an assigned turnover rate (0.3, 0.03 and 0.001 a^-1 at 10°C, resp.) and decomposition rates are calculated as a function of turnover rate, air and soil temperature and moisture. The temperature sensitivity of Rh is an Arrhenius type function with decreasing Q10 values (Lloyd & Taylor, 1994).

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Parameters are defined in param.par or lpjparam.js respectively

Lloyd J, Taylor J (1994) On the temperature dependence of soil respiration. Functional ecology, 8, 315–323.