Organic nitrogen fluxes related to the soil organic carbon fluxes

The fluxes of nitrogen are directly related to the carbon flows. When carbon is taken up into the microbial pool there is an associated nitrogen flow, NLitter1 and 2→Microbes, NFaeces→Microbes and NHumus→Microbes. Also when carbon is transferred to the humus pool there are associated nitrogen fluxes, NLitter1 and 2→Humus and NFaeces→Humus. All these nitrogen fluxes are calculated in the same way: by dividing the carbon flux by the CN ratio of the source.