Nitrogen addition alters soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) accumulation in forest ecosystems

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Sourced from the future-work section and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 5 journals. Those papers have been cited 43 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 5 representative gaps

• Soil Carbon Under Native and Exotic Trees on a Pastoral Dairy Farm in New Zealand (2026) · Environments · doi

  Quantifying immobilisation, mineralisation and leaching of N and P is the next step, - Investigating the effects of tree species on soil carbon and nutrient cycling, - Studying the long-term effects of tree plantings on soil carbon and ecosystem services

  generalfuture-work section
  Keywords: quantifying immobilisation mineralisation leaching next step investigating effects
• Insights into the subdaily variations in methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide fluxes from upland tropical tree stems (2025) · New Phytologist · cited 15× · doi

  Summary Recent studies have shown that stem fluxes, although highly variable among trees, can alter the strength of the methane (CH 4 ) sink or nitrous oxide (N 2 O) source in some forests, but the patterns and magnitudes of these fluxes remain unclear.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: fluxes summary recent stem highly variable among trees alter strength methane sink nitrous oxide source
• Heavy Nitrogen Application Rate and Long-Term Duration Decrease the Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Rates in Forest Ecosystems (2024) · Forests · cited 17× · doi

  Nitrogen addition alters soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) accumulation in forest ecosystems, but the responses of SOC and TN sequestration rates and dynamics to nitrogen addition in forest ecosystems worldwide remain unclear.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: nitrogen addition forest ecosystems alters soil organic carbon total accumulation responses sequestration rates dynamics worldwide
• Consequences of nitrogen deposition and soil acidification in European forest ecosystems and mitigation approaches (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · cited 11× · doi

  , liming, harvesting, and intercropping with other tree species on traits of trees, soil and ecosystem properties and fluxes, however, a comprehensive review summarizing the current consequences of nitrogen saturation and soil acidification in European forest, particularly if current forest management approaches are able to mitigate these consequences in the context of climate change, is still lacking.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: soil current consequences forest liming harvesting intercropping tree species traits trees ecosystem properties fluxes comprehensive
• Long-term effects of forest liming on soil invertebrates (2025) · Applied Soil Ecology · doi

  As cross-taxon research on the long-term consequences of forest liming is scarce, we investigated the long-term (>30 years) effects of different liming treatments on the diversity and biomass of soil organisms in forests in south-western Germany.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: long term liming cross taxon consequences forest scarce investigated years effects different treatments diversity biomass

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