Boreal-forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence

Andrieux, Benjamin; Paré, David; Beguin, Julien; Grondin, Pierre; Bergeron, Yves

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-195-2020

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-195-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-195-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

Original research article

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15 May 2020

Original research article |

| 15 May 2020

Boreal-forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence

Benjamin Andrieux, David Paré, Julien Beguin, Pierre Grondin, and Yves Bergeron

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RC1: 'Review: “Boreal forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence” (soil-2019-88)', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Benjamin Andrieux, 28 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review of Andrieux et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Feb 2020
- AC2: 'Response to RC2', Benjamin Andrieux, 28 Feb 2020

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ED: Revision (18 Mar 2020) by Stefan Doerr

AR by Benjamin Andrieux on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2020) by Stefan Doerr

ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2020) by Jorge Mataix-Solera (Executive editor)

AR by Benjamin Andrieux on behalf of the Authors (14 Apr 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Our study aimed to disentangle the contribution of several drivers to explaining the proportion of soil carbon that can be released to CO₂ through microbial respiration. We found that boreal-forest soil chemistry is an important driver of the amount of carbon that microbes can process. Our results emphasize the need to include the effects of soil chemistry into models of carbon cycling to better anticipate the role played by boreal-forest soils in carbon-cycle–climate feedbacks.