Soil respiration is rarely studied at the landscape scale where forest and soil properties can be important drivers. We performed forest and soil inventories in 150 temperate forest sites in three German landscapes and measured in situ soil CO 2 efflux with the soda-lime method in early summer 2018 and…
Soil respiration is an important pathway of soil organic carbon losses in temperate grasslands; however, it is rarely studied across broad management intensity gradients in a landscape. Using the soda-lime method, we measured in-situ soil CO 2 efflux with single measurements of long exposure time (i.e.…
Grassland management intensity influences nutrient cycling both directly, by changing nutrient inputs and outputs from the ecosystem, and indirectly, by altering the nutrient content, and the diversity and functional composition of plant and microbial communities. However, the relative importance of…
Land-use and management influence the coupled carbon and nutrients cycles in soils. However, studies that investigate carbon and nutrient cycling in multiple land-uses over multiple study regions with distinct environmental conditions and across broad management gradients are scarce. Therefore, many…