Litter decomposition is a fundamental ecosystem process, influencing soil carbon storage, nutrient availability, and forest productivity. Climate change may affect litter decomposition and thus nutrient dynamics via altering plant phenology, litter quality, and the composition of soil microbial...

Litter comprises a major nutrient source when decomposed via soil microbes and functions as subtract that limits gas exchange between soil and atmosphere, thereby restricting methane (CH4) uptake in soils. However, the impact and inherent mechanism of litter and its decomposition on CH4 uptake in...

Aims Precipitation patterns in the tropics of southern China are predicted to change with an increase of the rainfall in the wet season (WW) and a delay of the wet season into autumn (DW). To explore how soil C cycles respond to a changing precipitation pattern, we established a precipitation...

The potential of agroforestry systems (AFS) for atmospheric carbon sequestration in degraded tropical lands is of key interest for climate change and rural development policies. This study evaluated aboveground and soil (0-20 cm) carbon stocks of AFS, secondary forests (SF), conserved and logged...

We investigated how legacies of land use and climate affected the microbial use of organic matter (OM) along a tropical climate gradient in Ethiopia. Four levels of land-use intensity ranging from croplands to pristine forests were assessed along a gradient from cool and moist high altitude (MAT =...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) has an important role as a key indicator for soil health due to its contributions on mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Tropical areas cover with Red-yellow soil (Udults) such as Amazon represents the highest amount of soil carbon sources in the earth. Although...

Tropical forest soils store a third of the global terrestrial carbon and control carbon dioxide (CO₂) terrestrial effluxes to the atmosphere produced by root and microbial respiration. Soil CO₂ efflux varies in time and space and is known to be strongly influenced by soil temperature and water...

The Amazon forests are one of the largest ecosystem carbon pools on Earth. Although more frequent and prolonged future droughts have been predicted, the impacts have remained largely uncertain, as most land surface models (LSMs) fail to capture the vegetation drought responses. In this study, the...

Although litter can regulate the global climate by influencing soil N₂O fluxes, there is no consensus on the major drivers or their relative importance and how these impact at the global scale. In this paper, we conducted a meta-analysis of 21 global studies to quantify the impact of litter removal ...

Changes in precipitation represent a major effect of climate change on tropical forests, which contain some of the earth's largest terrestrial carbon (C) stocks. Such changes are expected to influence microbes, nutrients, and the fate of C in tropical forest soils. To explore this, we assessed soil ...