The Effect of Vegetation Restoration on Forest Soil Nutrients

Dear Colleagues,

Vegetation restoration is one of the principal strategies to control soil erosion and manage ecosystem recovery in ecologically fragile regions. The expansions of managed forestlands accelerate ecosystem restoration and affect the cycles and pools of C, N and P stored in soils. There is evidence that soil carbon accumulation in late vegetation restoration stage was limited by N and P nutrients, supported by the theory of plant homeostasis and soil enzyme stoichiometry. Elucidating soil C, N and P dynamics and analyzing their relations along vegetation restoration have important implications for sustainable forest managements and predictions of global future C cycles. Climate, soils, plants as well as global change have co-determined the processes and magnitude of soil C, N and P dynamics. However, the driving mechanism of plants’, soils’ and microbes’ effect on soil C, N and P dynamics is also not yet well understood, especially in the context of global change. The objectives of this issue are to bring together experiences from different parts of the world on “the Effect of Vegetation Restoration on Forest Soil Nutrient”, to explore soil C and nutrient dynamics and their driving mechanism following forest restoration. Session outputs will be very helpful to guide future forest management.

Dr. Lei Deng
Prof. Dr. Xinzhang Song
Guest Editors

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