By the independent analysis of DNA and RNA, whole communities of bacteria and fungi and its active members were compared in topsoil of a Picea abies forest during a period of organic matter ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems shows that particulate organic carbon (POC) dominates surface soils, while mineral-associated ...

More information: Fei Li et al, The changes in soil organic carbon stock and quality across a subalpine forest successional series, Forest Ecosystems (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.fecs.2024.100203 ...

Forests, for their part, store roughly 40% of the Earth's soil carbon. Because of that, there have been many research projects studying how climate change affects the carbon flux from forest soils.