ArticleGlobal change biology2022
Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long-term irrigated dry pine forest.
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- Earthworms Enhance Global Soil Carbon Storage Through Microbial-Mineral Stabilization.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Carbon Sequestration Enhancement by Irrigation in a Mediterranean Pine Forest.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A soil food web approach to integrate soil fauna into multitrophic biogeochemistry.Communications earth & environment · 2026Review
- Long-Term Ecological Impacts of Norway Spruce Plantations on Biodiversity and Microhabitat Conditions.Ecosystems (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Temporal response of belowground and aboveground organisms to microclimate changes in irrigated mediterranean vineyards.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Plant Diversity Maintains Soil Detritivore Activity Under Drought.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Shifting Carbon Fractions in Forest Soils OffsetGlobal change biology · 2025Article
- Functional diversity of soil macrofauna may contribute to microbial community stabilization under drought stress.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Water limitation intensity shifts carbon allocation dynamics in Scots pine mesocosms.Plant and soil · 2023Article
- Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long-term irrigated dry pine forest.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Summer droughts strongly affect soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling, but net effects on SOC storage are unclear as drought affects both C inputs and outputs from soils. Here, we explored the overlooked role of soil fauna on SOC storage in forests, hypothesizing that soil faunal activity is particularly drought-sensitive, thereby reducing litter incorporation into the mineral soil and, eventually, long-term SOC storage. In a drought-prone pine forest (Switzerland), we performed a large-scale irrigation experiment for 17 years and assessed its impact on vertical SOC distribution and composition. We also examined litter mass loss of dominant tree species using different mesh-size litterbags and determined soil fauna abundance and community composition. The 17-year-long irrigation resulted in a C loss in the organic layers (-1.0 kg C m
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