Alpine forests are key regulators of soil biogeochemical cycles, yet the extent to which forest type constrains soil microbial diversity and soil quality in high-elevation regions remains insufficiently resolved. Here, we assessed how contrasting alp...
The transition from natural forest to plantations has increased dramatically in the past decades. Forest conversion will affect soil properties and thus soil ecosystem services. Based on soil indicators, we studied the differences of soil ecosystem s...
Forests have a key role in mitigating both non-biological and biological ecological disturbances. However, major disturbances (soil pollution, shift from native forest species to exoticones, forested watersheds and climate changes) can have different...
Soil infiltration properties (SIPs) are important components of forest hydrological responses; however, few studies have investigated the mechanisms through which soil physical properties affect SIPs. In this study, two SIPs, the initial infiltration...
Forest gaps play a crucial role in community succession and assembly in forest ecosystems; therefore, they have recently been recognized and implemented as effective forest management practice all over the world. Forest gaps are commonly created as s...
Soil respiration is rarely studied at the landscape scale where forest and soil properties can be important drivers. We performed forest and soil inventories in 150 temperate forest sites in three German landscapes and measured in situ soil CO2 efflu...
This study aimed to investigate the role of plantation forests and natural secondary forests in controlling soil physicochemical properties and microbial biomass in urban forest ecosystems. (1) Background: Urban forests provide numerous benefits to u...
As the responsive soil properties, soil microbial fractions and enzymatic activities are often recommended for assessing soil environment. Different flora, silvicultural practices, and anthropogenic activities regulate essential ecosystem processes....
In recent years, three sections (Humipedon, Copedon and Lithopedon) were recognized in the soil profile. It was then possible to link the first and most biologically active section to the characteristics of the environment and soil genesis. In partic...
The stability of soil aggregates is critical for maintaining soil structures and is positively correlated with soil resident organic and inorganic colloids. Forest conversion and soil depth affects the formation of soil aggregates; however, the detai...
Soil hydraulic properties are central for soil quality and affect forest productivity and the impacts of climate change on forests. The water retention characteristics (WRC) of mineral forest soils in Finland are not well known, and practical tools t...
The agroforestry system provides a new option for P. notoginseng cultivation. However, the effects on soil health and microbial communities are still incomplete when monoculture coniferous forests are converted to P. notoginseng–pine plantation...
Boreal forests have historically been regarded as some of the largest terrestrial carbon (C) sinks. However, increased soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition due to forest harvesting and post-harvest silviculture (e.g., site preparation, planting, a...
Soil fungal communities are pivotal components in ecosystems and play an essential role in global biogeochemical cycles. In this study, we determined the fungal communities of a natural larch forest and a manual plantation larch forest in Heilongjian...
As an important part of terrestrial ecosystems, the forest soil nutrient content is easily affected by thinning. However, the effects of thinning on soil phosphorus (P) stocks and dynamics have not yet been systematically analyzed. In this study, we...
Forest soils represent a substantial portion of the terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and changes to soil C cycling are globally significant not only for C sequestration but also for sustaining forest productivity and ecosystem services. To quantify the e...
Background and objectives: aggregation and structure play key roles in the water-holding capacity and stability of soils and are important for the physical protection and storage of soil carbon (C). Forest soils are an important sink of ecosystem C,...
This study focuses on two Mediterranean beech forests located in northern and southern Italy and therefore subjected to different environmental conditions. The research goal was to understand C storage in the forest floor and mineral soil and the maj...
In forest ecosystems, soil CO2 efflux is an important component of ecosystem respiration (RE), which is generally driven by variability in soil temperature and soil moisture. Tree harvesting in forests can alter the soil variables and, consequently,...
Research Highlights: It was found that both tree species and ground vegetation affected soil carbon stock in boreal forests. Carbon stocks in the mineral layers were related negatively to the C/N ratio in the organic horizon and pine proportion in th...
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The influence of forest type on soil aggregates distribution, stability, and the contribution of aggregate-associated carbon (C) to bulk soil organic carbon (SOC) remains poorly understood. This may be crucial for the accumulation and persistence of...
Myxobacteria are abundant micropredators in soil, and are social bacteria with multicellular behavior and producers of versatile secondary metabolites. The interaction between predator and prey populations is an important component in the soil microb...
Knowledge regarding changes in soil microbial communities with forest succession is vital to understand soil microbial community shifts under global change scenarios. The composition and diversity of soil microbial communities across a subalpine fore...
The paper presents the study of the soil quality and health expressed by the chemical and biological properties in a research field placed at Varciorog, Bihor County, Romania. The soil samples were collected from 3 soil variants in March 2023. In eac...
Natural vegetation restoration has emerged as an effective and rapid approach for ecological restoration in fragile areas. However, the response of soil microorganisms to natural succession remains unclear. To address this, we utilized high-throughpu...
Ecological restoration is widely recognized as an essential technique for addressing soil degradation, biomass decline, and biodiversity loss. Improving and maintaining soil quality is critical to ensuring environmental sustainability and successful...
The soil quality index (SQI) is based on several key indicators and is used to assess soil quality. More than 250,000 ha of walnut saplings (Juglans regia L.) were planted in previous cropland areas in the Sichuan Basin, China, using a range of soil...
The forest swamp ecosystem, as a special wetland ecosystem, is a key link in the material cycle and an important carbon sink in the carbon cycle. The global carbon cycle is of great significance, but the impact of forest swamp succession and soil dep...
To date, there has been limited knowledge about how soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest ecosystems at a global scale respond to the altered precipitation, and the key influencing mechanisms involved. Thirty-seven studies conducted under t...
The use of forest biomass to produce energy is increasingly viewed as a means to reduce fossil fuel consumption and mitigate global warming. However, the impact of such practices on soils in the long term is not well known. We revisited forest plots...
Knowledge regarding the response of soil invertebrate communities to typhoon disturbance is limited, although it is known that soil invertebrates are sensitive to forest disturbances and that tropical cyclones (typhoons/hurricanes) are the most destr...
Forests can affect soil organic carbon (SOC) quality and distribution through forest types and traits. However, much less is known about the influence of urban forests on SOC, especially in the effects of different forest types, such as coniferous an...
Hurricanes are an important disturbance in the tropics that can alter forest ecosystem properties and processes. To understand the immediate influence of hurricane disturbance on carbon cycling, we examined soil labile organic carbon (LOC) in a Canop...
When forest fires occur, highly complex effects on soil properties and hydrological processes are activated. However, in countries such as Iran, these consequences are not widely studied and there is a lack of studies. Therefore, the main aim of this...
Revealing soil microbial diversity and metabolic limitations in different land uses and soil depths is essential to understanding the regulation processes of soil nutrients. Here, bacterial and fungal microbial diversity and metabolic restriction in...
Soil stoichiometry is essential for determining the ecological functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding the stoichiometric relationships in mixed forests could enhance our knowledge of nutrient cycling. In a mixed forest zone of Larix pri...
Forest soil acidification is a global environmental problem, and forest ecosystems play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems. To provide a theoretical basis for the sustainable development of areas, this study selected Daluoshan and Wuyanling...
Stand-replacing disturbances are a key element of the Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest life cycle. While the effect of a natural disturbance regime on forest physiognomy, spatial structure and pedocomplexity was well described in the literature, it...
Although forest soils play an important role in the carbon cycle, the influence of topography has received little attention. Since the topographical gradient may affect CO2 emissions and C sequestration, the aims of the study were: (1) to identify th...
Both altitude and vegetation are known to affect the amount and quality of soil organic matter (SOM) and the size and activity of soil microbial biomass. However, when altitude and vegetation changes are combined, it is still unclear which one has a...
Reliable estimation of the forest soil nitrogen spatial distribution is necessary for effective forest ecosystem management. This study aimed to develop high-resolution digital soil maps of forest soil nitrogen across South Korea using three powerful...
This study presents the results of the soil hydraulic characterization performed under three land covers, namely pasture, 9-year-old restored forest, and remnant forest, in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Two types of infiltration tests were performed...
Although the importance of the soil bacterial community for ecosystem functions has long been recognized, there is still a limited understanding of the associations between its community composition, structure, co-occurrence patterns, and soil physic...
Broad-scale assessments often track forest productivity, yet they rarely quantify how soil conditions determine whether these gains persist as long-lived carbon and generate measurable economic value. This study focused on Northeast China, where fore...
Forestry machinery plays a key role in forest management, but its increasing weight significantly impacts soil condition. Machinery passage causes soil compaction, which alters the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil and affects...
The effect of climatic factors on soil nutrients is significant. Identifying whether soil nutrients respond to local climate and how the forest types modulate this responsiveness is critical for forest management. Therefore, six soil nutrients from f...
The study on the spatial distribution of forest soil nutrients is important not only as a reference for understanding the factors affecting soil variability, but also for the rational use of soil resources and the establishment of a virtuous cycle of...
Forests play a pivotal role in the global carbon cycle, yet accurately simulating forest soil carbon dynamics remains a significant challenge for process-based models. This review systematically compares the mechanistic foundations of traditional mod...
The paper deals with measurements of water infiltration carried out on a well-developed forest floor formed by needle-leaf litter of Norway spruce. Three field methods (tension disk permeameter, single-ring infiltrometer and Guelph permeameter) were...
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