… properties through: variation in the amount and chemical makeup of the organic material
produced that could alter soil pH and rate of organic matter decomposition, the depth of rooting …

… First, there are significant differences in pool sizes, turnover times, and molecular characteristics
of C stored at different depths in forest soils, which may cause the forest floor to be more …

… shallower than 5 cm, and the brown B-horizon started within 7.5 cm of the mineral soil
surface and extended beyond 15 cm depth, we assumed the 7.5–10 cm layer had the same …

… five soil depths down to 50 cm in a broad-leaved temperate forest… the surface soil but lower
below 10-cm soil depth compared … nitrogen (N) concentrations with soil depth, whereas the N …

… obtain a more complete picture of temporal and spatial trends in DOC in temperate forests. …
and fluxes of soil solution from three different soil depths of 22 temperate forest sites in …

… Chinese temperate forest despite the importance of this forest … six temperate forest types,
representing the typical secondary … The sensitivity of R S to soil temperature at 10 cm depth (Q …

… variation in summertime soil CO 2 efflux in forests, but this … hardwood stand of the Harvard
Forest, Massachusetts, USA, … greater depths that we were able to dig in this glacial till soil. …

… In the present work we examined the composition and distribution across three soil layers
of the buried soil seed bank under three different overstory types (Fagus sylvatica, Quercus …

… By contrast, a very large part of the variance in SOC (p<0.0001), STN (p<0.0001) and C-to-N
ratio (p<0.0001) were explained by site effects in all mineral soil depths. The highest SOC …

… characterizing soil fungal communities. Our results also suggest that in temperate forests, …
mineral horizons occur similarly in both ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal forests. …