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{"title":"Evaluating the performance of mainstream Swedish growth models in uneven-aged forestry systems","authors":"Mateusz Grzeszkiewicz ,&nbsp;Alex Appiah Mensah ,&nbsp;Martin Goude ,&nbsp;Jeannette Eggers ,&nbsp;Renats Trubins ,&nbsp;Göran Ståhl","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) practices are increasingly recognized for their potential in climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation. Selection cutting, a key method within CCF, presents unique challenges for forest growth modelling due to its complex structure and distinct growth dynamics. Current models, largely developed from data obtained from even-aged stands, may exhibit lower accuracy when applied to uneven-aged stands. This study assessed the short-term (i.e., up to 15 years) predictive accuracy of the Swedish Heureka Decision Support System for stands managed with selection cutting. It assessed growth models for tree recruitment, growth, and mortality using data from 27 CCF field experiments covering a broad latitudinal and environmental range across Sweden. A linear mixed-effects modelling approach was used to analyse differences between observations and model predictions. Findings revealed potential species-specific biases, with an average underestimation of volume growth by 2 m³ ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ after ten years of simulation, driven predominantly by underestimations in Norway spruce growth. While mortality predictions were generally accurate, they exhibited slight underestimation after recent cutting and overestimation otherwise. Ingrowth density predictions demonstrated minor biases, with spruce being underestimated and birch overestimated, but displayed high residual variability. Sensitivity analysis revealed correlations of residuals with stand variables, including site index, proportion of spruce, and stand basal area. The study faced limitations due to data scarcity and the short observation periods. Although most observed biases were not statistically significant, the findings underscore potential discrepancies when applying current Swedish models to selection cutting stands.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"582 ","pages":"Article 122560"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Density-dependent selection effect of dominant species rather than species diversity increased aboveground biomass accumulation in a temperate oak forest","authors":"Guanjie Wang ,&nbsp;Liu Yang ,&nbsp;Xiuchen Wu ,&nbsp;Ting Wang ,&nbsp;Hongyan Liu ,&nbsp;Zhicheng Chen ,&nbsp;Chenyi Yu ,&nbsp;Shengyun Liu ,&nbsp;Zhenjiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122563","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) exerts a critical role in mediating the global carbon cycle. The impacts of multiple abiotic and biotic factors on AGB have been extensively discussed, research on artificially assembled ecosystems has consistently shown that AGB is predominantly influenced by the prevalence of dominant species. However, it is unclear whether forest AGB is also regulated by the varying proportions of dominant species within a community. Based on nine relative density gradients (10 % - 90 %) of <em>Quercus aliena</em> var. <em>acutiserrata</em> populations, this study explored the spatial pattern in forest AGB and the underpinning drivers using generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) and structural equation modeling (SEM). Our results showed that as relative density of the dominant oak species increases, the community AGB, soil nutrients, intraspecific competition intensity and evolution diversity significantly increased, whereas tree species diversity, intraspecific and interspecific diameter at breast height (DBH) variation and interspecific competition intensity all significantly decreased. Soil nutrients could exert an important positive effect on forest AGB accumulation by mediating tree species diversity (Simpson index) and interspecific exclusion stress (interspecific DBH variation and competition intensity). Species diversity and interspecific DBH variation had negative impact whereas the interspecific competition intensity exerted positive contribution on forest AGB. We found that the density-dependent selection effect may be the fundamental cause of biodiversity loss and aboveground biomass accumulation, which highlights the significant influence of dominant species density on community development. Our study provides a valuable insight into the crucial role of dominant species populations in regional forest carbon sinks predication and forest ecosystem management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"582 ","pages":"Article 122563"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spruce hybrids show superior lifespan growth but intermediate response to climate stress compared to their ecologically divergent parental species","authors":"Edouard Reed-Métayer ,&nbsp;Claire Depardieu ,&nbsp;Patrick Lenz ,&nbsp;Jean Bousquet ,&nbsp;Martin Perron","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122550","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change brings new constraints to which trees will have to adapt, including more frequent severe weather events due to climate anomalies. Black spruce and red spruce are phylogenetically close but adapted to different ecological conditions, and they form a natural hybrid zone where their natural distributions come into contact. Thus, they represent an interesting model to study the effect of introgressive hybridization in the context of climate change, given that interspecific gene flow could eventually affect their capacity to adapt where their natural distributions overlap. Using a common garden field test gathering 20-year-old progeny trees resulting from rigorous controlled crosses including previously verified genetic identity of the parents, growth patterns and wood density differences could be observed between species and between them and their F₁ hybrids. A dendroecological analytical approach relying on wood cores was used and revealed similar wood responses to climatic variations between species, both through lifespan climate sensitivity and through episodic stress response indexes. They were however differentially expressed in early- and latewood between black spruce and red spruce, differences likely driven by diverging cambial phenology adaptations to different growing season lengths. F₁ hybrids exhibited hybrid vigor for lifespan cumulative growth under the test site conditions but showed intermediate values for traits related to climate response. These results may assist the management of forest genetic resources and contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of adaptation to climate in hybrid zones.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122550"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Litter context shapes seed persistence of an invasive pine in Patagonia","authors":"Jorgelina Franzese,&nbsp;Ramiro Rubén Ripa,&nbsp;Estela Raffaele","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural plant communities are highly vulnerable to invasion by neighboring invasive species. Understanding how litter influences invasive species establishment is essential for assessing its impact on invasion. We conducted a field experiment to investigate how litter context, related to disturbance and habitat type, affects the seed longevity of <em>Pinus radiata</em>, an invasive, fire-adapted species in Patagonia, Argentina. We simulated litter conditions that pine seeds may encounter along the edges of invasive pine-dominated areas, including post-fire scenarios. We examined the response of <em>Pinus radiata</em> seed viability to the combined effects of litter origin (native forest <em>vs</em>. pine-invaded forest), litter burn status (burned litter residue <em>vs</em>. unburned litter), and time since deposition in the field (4 months, 1 year, and 2 years). Burned litter generally reduced viability, though the effect was less pronounced in native litter than in pine forest litter. <em>Pinus radiata</em> seeds remained viable for at least one year in burned forest substrates, indicating that forests affected by fires are highly vulnerable to pine invasion. Burned litter residue, particularly from pine, promoted germination shortly after seeds were left in the field (pine litter: 30 % ± 1.4 <em>vs</em>. native litter: 17 % ± 1.1), compared to no germination in unburned litter, suggesting that burning accelerates pine colonization. The differing impacts of burned litter from different habitats on seed viability and germination emphasize that microcontext influences on regeneration are specific to each reproductive process. Prolonged seed deposition in the field reduced seed viability, yet some seeds remained viable after 2 years. Overall, these results highlight the role of disturbances in determining seed persistence and the potential for <em>P. radiata</em> to spread over time through the establishment of persistent soil seed banks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122565"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143421220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The importance of the volatile carbon fraction in estimating deadwood carbon concentrations","authors":"Mahendra Doraisami ,&nbsp;Sean.C. Thomas ,&nbsp;Adam S. Gorgolewski ,&nbsp;Adam R. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122555","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122555","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The volatile carbon concentration or fraction (VCF) of wood—i.e., the proportion of woody tissue which is composed of heat-sensitive volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are lost during sample preparation—is an important contributor to wood C concentrations. Studies of live wood have shown that failure to account for the VCF of wood may result in significant errors in forest C stock estimates. However, while studies have shown that deadwood C concentrations differ from those in live wood, no study has explicitly quantified the VCF in deadwood. Here, we quantify the VCF in deadwood for the first time, using <em>n</em> = 400 individual deadwood samples obtained from 13 species, multiple decay classes (DC), and two primary woody tissue types (i.e., stem wood and bark), in a temperate forest. The VCF in deadwood is non-trivial, averaging ∼0.9 % and ranging widely across species and decay classes. Across both taxonomic divisions (gymnosperms vs. angiosperms) VCF is largest (1.73 %) in DC 1 but declines to 0 % in DC 5. Overall, stem wood exhibits higher VCF (1.06 %) than bark (0.64 %). Lastly, deadwood VCF appears systematically lower than that in live wood, indicating that live wood VCFs may not be good approximators of the VCF in deadwood. Our results suggest that failing to account for the VCF of deadwood in forest C estimation studies, especially in the early stages of decay, results in errors in deadwood C stock estimates of ∼0.9 % on average. Future studies focused on tree- and forest-scale C estimation should therefore account for the VCF in their analyses, in order to improve the accuracy of C stock estimates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122555"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143421219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conifer epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities respond more strongly to rain exclusion and host species identity than to soil water content","authors":"Rim Khlifa ,&nbsp;Marie Renaudin ,&nbsp;Daniel Houle ,&nbsp;Loïc D’Orangeville ,&nbsp;Louis Duchesne ,&nbsp;Steven W. Kembel","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122554","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122554","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With global warming, the frequency and intensity of drought episodes are projected to increase worldwide, especially in the boreal forest. This represents a serious threat to the boreal forest ecosystem’s productivity and environmental services. It is thus crucial to better understand how drought or water limitation could affect boreal forest ecosystems functioning, and to be prepared to overcome damage caused by drought events. Studies suggest that microbes may mitigate the negative effects of drought or water shortage on plants. However, most of these studies focused on soil microbes and on agricultural ecosystems. Here, we used a rainout shelters and soil irrigation experimental design to study the response to rain exclusion and soil water content of epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities associated with four boreal conifer tree species. Our results showed only a weak response of phyllosphere bacterial communities to variation in soil water content. On the other hand, host tree species identity and rain exclusion were the main drivers of epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities’ structure and diversity. This suggests that fewer rain events, in the context of climate change, would impact boreal trees phyllosphere microbiome composition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122554"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combined effects of environmental conditions and stand age–induced tree size variation on temperate forest carbon pools among stand types in South Korea","authors":"Yong-Ju Lee ,&nbsp;Min-Ki Lee ,&nbsp;Chang-Bae Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The conservation of biodiversity and carbon sequestration in forests has global significance. In this study, we aimed to investigate strategies to enhance biodiversity and forest carbon pools in temperate forests. We analyzed soil sample data from 725 plots (400 m² each) collected from the National Forest Inventory of South Korea, categorizing them into three forest stand types: conifer, broadleaved, and mixed stands. Abiotic drivers (topographic and climatic factors, and soil properties), biotic drivers (taxonomic and functional trait diversity, functional trait identity, and stand structural diversity), and forest development stage-related factor (stand age) served as independent variables. We applied a multimodel averaging approach and piecewise structural equation modeling to identify the main drivers and linkages controlling forest carbon pools, including tree biomass, coarse woody debris, and soil organic carbon (SOC) for each stand type. Our findings revealed that stand age–driven tree size variation (i.e., standard deviation of diameter at breast height) influenced each forest carbon pool across all stand types, with different biotic drivers affecting the linkages among carbon pools depending on forest type. Additionally, environmental conditions, especially soil chemical properties, were the main drivers controlling SOC among forest carbon pools. In this study, we suggest that different forest management plans should be implemented to enhance the carbon sequestration capacity and biodiversity of each forest stand type.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122553"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing two ground-based seed count methods and their effect on masting metrics","authors":"Jessie J. Foest ,&nbsp;Michal Bogdziewicz ,&nbsp;Thomas Caignard ,&nbsp;Martin Hadad ,&nbsp;Peter A. Thomas ,&nbsp;Andrew Hacket-Pain","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122551","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Masting, i.e. interannually variable and synchronized seed production, plays a crucial role in forest ecosystems, influencing wildlife dynamics, pathogen prevalence, and forest regeneration. Accurately capturing masting variability is important for effective forest management, conservation efforts, and predicting ecosystem responses to environmental changes. The adoption of low-cost methods facilitates the large-scale data acquisition needed in this time of unprecedented environmental upheaval, but it is important to understand the reliability of such methods. We investigated the relationship between the timed count method and the quadrat-based method for monitoring seed production in European beech (<em>Fagus sylvatica</em>). The timed count method is fast, cost-effective, and suitable for areas with public access. These characteristics make time counts a practical choice for large-scale seed monitoring. However, the method has not been cross-calibrated with more traditional ground-based methods like quadrat sampling, which involves exhaustive seed collection from designated plots under tree canopies. Our research reveals a loglinear relationship between seed counts obtained by the two methods, and shows that the timed count is an effective method of estimating seed production. We also found that seed production exhibits greater dispersion in patchiness at lower levels of seed fall, which explains why the timed count method, covering a larger area, captures greater variability in seed fall compared to the quadrat method in such contexts. This highlights the importance of choosing an appropriate sampling strategy to accurately assess seed fall. The differences between the two methods introduce variability into derived masting metrics, such as the coefficient of variation and synchrony, with individual-level seed production variability metrics being more affected than population-level ones. The findings underscore the importance of understanding how different sampling methods can impact long-term ecological studies, particularly those focused on masting behaviour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122551"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The future is uncertain: Wind resilient forests in a changing climate","authors":"Barry Gardiner,&nbsp;Emanuele Lingua,&nbsp;Maximiliano Costa,&nbsp;Yi-Ying Chen,&nbsp;Kana Kamimura,&nbsp;Amanda Bunce,&nbsp;Dirk Schindler","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122556","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122556","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the process of wind damage to trees and forests is an important requirement for developing strategies to create forests and urban environments resilient to climate change and for understanding the ecology of forests subject to wind damage. This special issue is a collection of papers based on work associated with the 10th IUFRO Wind and Trees Conference held in June 2023 in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. The 1st IUFRO Wind and Trees Conference was held in 1993 in Edinburgh, Scotland and this latest publication allows us to reflect on how the subject has developed over the last 30 years. Familiar themes continue to be important including the interaction between trees and forests and the wind, and predicting the risk of damage to forests and trees. However, there has been an increased awareness of the importance of wind disturbance in shaping the ecology of many forests including broadleaf forests and forests in tropical and subtropical regions. Furthermore, there is now more emphasis on trying to understand the response of individual trees to the wind and together with the increased research on wind impacts on broadleaved trees this is allowing a better understanding of the risk that urban trees, trees in rural landscapes, and mixed species forests are facing. A new development has been the emergence of clear evidence of genetic differences in the wind resistance of different clones of the same species. This gives us the opportunity to breed trees with greater resistance to wind damage. At the same time a paper in this special issue shows that Scots pine (<em>Pinus sylvestris</em>) trees across Europe adjusted their wind resistance to the local wind environment, demonstrating the high plasticity of this and other tree species. Understanding the interaction of genetics and environmental influences on tree resistance to wind remains a major challenge for future research. Further challenges are to develop a better understanding of tree dynamics, root fatiguing, and the interaction of roots, soil and moisture. It is clear that we need to take a holistic view of forest disturbance by understanding the interaction of wind with other disturbance agents such as drought, bark beetles, and fire. In this way we can hopefully help to develop forest ecosystems that are more resilient to our future climate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"581 ","pages":"Article 122556"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nutrient enrichment shapes litter micro-food webs in a subtropical plantation","authors":"Hui Shao ,&nbsp;Huimin Wang ,&nbsp;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo ,&nbsp;Xiaoqin Dai ,&nbsp;Shengwang Meng ,&nbsp;Paul Kardol ,&nbsp;Yuxin Wang ,&nbsp;Fusheng Chen ,&nbsp;Liang Kou ,&nbsp;Decai Gao ,&nbsp;Xiaoli Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tropical and subtropical forests are important for terrestrial gross primary production. These forests are limited by nutrient availability and are vulnerable to nutrient enrichment under global change. However, little is known about how and why belowground biodiversity responds to nutrient enrichment during litter decomposition in these forests – the fundamental process fuelling nutrients to the soil system while supporting carbon sequestration. We conducted a 6-year field microcosm experiment and used a linear mixed effect to investigate the effects of nutrient enrichment on micro-food webs (i.e., microbes and nematodes) of leaf and root litters in a subtropical plantation. We found strong effects of nutrient enrichment on diversity and structure of microbes and nematodes during litter decomposition. For instance, fertilization (nitrogen+phosphorus; N + P) significantly decreased fungal richness of diversity (OTUs richness) throughout the decomposition process, and shifted the litter biota toward lower bacterial evenness of diversity (OTUs evenness), with higher relative abundances of fungi and herbivores at the humus-near stage. Nutrient enrichment also modulated leaf and root litter micro-food webs in different ways. NP addition had stronger positive effects on leaf litter bacterial oligotrophs:copiotrophs at the early stage, and stronger positive effects on root litter fungi:bacteria, but stronger negative effects on leaf litter fungal oligotrophs:copiotrophs at the humus-near stage. Overall, our results indicate that nutrient enrichment significantly alters microbes and microfauna associated with litter decomposition in subtropical forests, with important consequences for nutrient replenishment and soil organic carbon formation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12350,"journal":{"name":"Forest Ecology and Management","volume":"580 ","pages":"Article 122545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}