Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

  • Felipe Bastida,
  • Carlos García,
  • Noah Fierer,
  • David J. Eldridge,
  • Matthew A. Bowker,
  • Sebastián Abades,
  • Fernando D. Alfaro,
  • Asmeret Asefaw Berhe,
  • Nick A. Cutler,
  • Antonio Gallardo,
  • Laura García-Velázquez,
  • Stephen C. Hart,
  • Patrick E. Hayes,
  • Teresa Hernández,
  • Zeng-Yei Hseu,
  • Nico Jehmlich,
  • Martin Kirchmair,
  • Hans Lambers,
  • Sigrid Neuhauser,
  • Víctor M. Peña-Ramírez,
  • Cecilia A. Pérez,
  • Sasha C. Reed,
  • Fernanda Santos,
  • Christina Siebe,
  • Benjamin W. Sullivan,
  • Pankaj Trivedi,
  • Alfonso Vera,
  • Mark A. Williams,
  • José Luis Moreno,
  • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11472-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The global ecological predictors of soil priming remain unclear. Here the authors conducted a global survey of soils from 86 global locations using an isotopic approach and find that in more mesic sites with high SOC concentrations, soil priming effects are more likely to be negative.