Soil Microbes Mediate Productivity Differences Between Natural and Plantation Forests.

ABSTRACT: While climate is known to regulate forest productivity, the mechanistic contribution of soil microbial communities-and whether it differs between natural and plantation forests-remains poorly quantified at broad scales. Here, we provide a synthesis-level, unified analysis that jointly evaluates climate, edaphic conditions, and soil microbes to compare mechanistic pathways underlying productivity divergence between forest types. We synthesized 237 observations across China and integrated productivity metrics-gross primary productivity (GPP) and net primary productivity (NPP)-with microbial diversity, dominant taxa, and soil drivers to compare natural and plantation forests within the current environmental coverage. Plantation productivity showed nonlinear responses to microbial diversity an

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12787416 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature