Tree effect on soil biota – Response to long-term forest tree density manipulation across a stand age gradient
Effet des arbres sur le biota du sol - réponse à la manipulation sur le long terme de la densité sur un gradient d'âge
Résumé
In the framework of the Imprebio project, our study showed that long-term forest tree density manipulation could alter soil biota and the soil food web structure. This could have important implications for litter decomposition and could subsequently alter soil process and ecosystem functioning, i.e. carbon and nutrients cycling. We also showed that the soil biota reponse to forest tree density depend on forest successional stage and that the stand age effect was predominant compared to the tree density effect.