The Forest Vegetation-Soil System: Interactions and Feedback

Dear Colleagues,

Forests play a central role in global biogeochemical cycles, acting both as sinks and sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Forest soils and vegetation jointly regulate essential ecosystem functions, including nutrient cycling, carbon storage and GHG dynamics. These coupled processes influence the exchange of CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O and shape soil structure, organic matter turnover and microbial activity. With accelerating climate change, altered precipitation patterns, nitrogen deposition and increasing disturbance events, vegetation–soil feedback is becoming more variable and uncertain. Understanding how the forest vegetation-soil system responds to environmental pressures is critical for predicting forest resilience, stability and contributions to global biogeochemical cycles.

This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in understanding forest vegetation–soil interactions and their roles in GHG dynamics under changing environmental conditions. We welcome studies that explore plant–soil–microbe interactions, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration and GHG source–sink behavior across spatial and temporal scales. Contributions addressing climate change effects, extreme events and expanding knowledge of biogeochemical and GHG processes are especially encouraged.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Plant–soil feedback;
• Carbon and Nitrogen cycling;
• Greenhouse gas fluxes (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O);
• Soil microbiome and biogeochemical processes;
• Climate change impacts.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Di Wu
Guest Editor

Dr. Huanhuan Wei
Guest Editor Assistant

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