Author Correction: Tropical forest soil carbon stocks do not increase despite 15 years of doubled litter inputs

Degradation in carbon stocks near tropical forest edges

Carbon stock estimates based on land cover type are critical for informing climate change assessment and landscape management, but field and theoretical evidence indicates that forest fragmentation reduces the amount of carbon stored at forest edges. Here, using remotely sensed pantropical biomass and land cover data sets, we estimate that biomass within the first 500 m of the forest edge is on...

2.3 Estimation of Forest Carbon Stocks

Soil stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a tropical rain forest landscape

CATHERINE E. LOVELOCK, SARA F. WRIGHT*, DEBORAH A. CLARK† and ROGER W. RUESS‡ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, PO Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA, * USDA-ARS, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA, † Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121–4499, USA, and ‡ Institute of Arctic Biology, Univer...

Estimating soil carbon stocks of Africa

Soil carbon stocks in ecoregions of Africa M. Henry, R. Valentini, and M. Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, UR SeqBio, SupAgro, Bat. 12, 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France Laboratorio di Ecologia Forestale, Di.S.A.F.Ri. – Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Via Camillo de Lellis, snc – 01100, Viterbo, Italy AgroParisTech – ENGREF, GEEFT...

Significance of microbial asynchronous anabolism to soil carbon dynamics driven by litter inputs

Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, it remains largely unknown how plant litter inputs impact magnitude, composition and source configuration of the SOC stocks over long term through microbial catabolism and anabolism, mostly due to uncoupled research on litter decomposition and SOC formation. This limits our ability to predict soil system resp...