Forest soil is a larger carbon storage than trees, and forest management affects soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sinks. A publication by the international HoliSoils project ...

Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

Logging destabilizes forest soil carbon over time Date: December 2, 2014 Source: Dartmouth College Summary: Logging doesn't immediately jettison carbon stored in a forest's mineral soils into the ...

By Petro Kotzé The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...

Hidden giants in forest soils A surprising wealth of novel giant viruses has been found in a soil ecosystem Date: November 19, 2018 Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

Deep forest soils lose carbon under experimental warming Experiment shows that even large, old, and presumably stable stores of soil carbon are vulnerable to warming and could amplify climate change.

Bowd said the team’s findings show that forest soils recover from disturbances slowly over many years — up to 80 years following a wildfire and as many as 30 years after logging, much longer ...

Carbon feedback from forest soils will accelerate global warming, 26-year study projects Peer-Reviewed Publication. Marine Biological Laboratory ...

Luca Morreale at urban forest field site in Boston, MA. (Photo courtesy Sarah Garvey) A separate study published Wednesday in Global Change Biology found that the soil around these urban forest ...

At the microscopic level, soil from Germany’s Black Forest is a fantastical realm—one that’s mirrored in wooded ecosystems worldwide. The newfound species seen here is one of about 1,300 ...

Destroying Nutrients In The Soil. When a rain forest is burned to raise crops or cattle, most of the nutrients are destroyed along with the vegetation. Grass may grow for a year, ...