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Boreal-forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence
Benjamin Andrieux
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NSERC-UQAT-UQAM Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management,
Forest Research Institute, Université du Québec en
Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X5E4, Canada
David Paré
Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Quebec, QC, G1V4C7, Canada
Julien Beguin
Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Quebec, QC, G1V4C7, Canada
Pierre Grondin
Direction de la Recherche Forestière, Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Quebec, QC, G1P3W8, Canada
Yves Bergeron
NSERC-UQAT-UQAM Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management,
Forest Research Institute, Université du Québec en
Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X5E4, Canada
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We provide a new global data set of charcoal preserved in sediments that can be used to examine how fire regimes have changed during past millennia and to investigate what caused these changes. The individual records have been standardised, and new age models have been constructed to allow better comparison across sites. The data set contains 1681 records from 1477 sites worldwide.
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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.
Our study aimed to disentangle the contribution of several drivers to explaining the proportion...
