Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration

Termination of belowground C allocation by trees alters soil fungal and bacterial communities in a boreal forest.

The introduction of photosynthates through plant roots is a major source of carbon (C) for soil microbial biota and shapes the composition of fungal and bacterial communities in the rhizosphere. Although the importance of this process, especially to ectomycorrhizal fungi, has been known for some time, the extent to which plant belowground C allocation controls the composition of the wider soil ...

Spatial Patterns of Soil Respiration Links Above and Belowground Processes along a Boreal Aspen Fire Chronosequence

Fire in boreal ecosystems is known to affect CO2 efflux from forest soils, which is commonly termed soil respiration (Rs). However, there is limited information on how fire and recovery from this disturbance affects spatial variation in Rs. The main objective of this study was to quantify the spatial variability of Rs over the growing season in a boreal aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) fire c...

Soil carbon sequestration

Microbial soil model and boreal forest

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sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review

Riitta Hyvönen 1 , Göran I. Ågren 1 , Sune Linder 2 , Tryggve Persson 1 , M. Francesca Cotrufo 3 , Alf Ekblad 4 , Michael Freeman 1 , Achim Grelle 1 , Ivan A. Janssens 5 , Paul G. Jarvis 6 , Seppo Kellomäki 7 , Anders Lindroth 8 , Denis Loustau 9 , Tomas Lundmark 10 , Richard J. Norby 11 , Ram Oren 12 , Kim Pilegaard 13 , Michael G. Ryan 14 , Bjarni D. Sigurdsson 15 , Monika Strömgren 8,16 , Ma...