Regulation of priming effect by soil organic matter stability over a broad geographic scale

Global soil carbon dynamics are regulated by the modification of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition by plant carbon input (priming effect). Here, the authors collect soil data along a 2200 km grassland transect on the Tibetan Plateau and find that SOM stability is the major control on priming e...

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Main Authors: Leiyi Chen, Li Liu, Shuqi Qin, Guibiao Yang, Kai Fang, Biao Zhu, Yakov Kuzyakov, Pengdong Chen, Yunping Xu, Yuanhe Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13119-z