Century-long afforestation induces microbial metabolic nitrogen . . . In this study, we selected the Saihanba Mechanized Forest Farm in China's northeastern Mollisols region as our study site due to its century-long history of afforestation, which provided an ideal setting for studying the long-term afforestation effects on soil microbial properties
Afforestation increased the microbial necromass carbon accumulation in . . . Abstract Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) is a stable part of SOC that makes up most of the C pool in land ecosystem However, the contribution of MNC to SOC accumulation during afforestation is still unclear, particularly in the deep soil
Microbial Adaptations Within Fine-Scale Soil Structure Alleviate . . . Here, we investigated how microbial adaptations within different soil aggregate-size fractions (fine-scale soil structure) were upscaled to influence P availability for soil C sequestration following long-term (around 32 years) afforestation in subtropical China