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Deforestation for agriculture leads to soil warming and enhanced litter decomposition in subarctic soils
Tino Peplau
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 68,
38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Christopher Poeplau
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 68,
38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Edward Gregorich
Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
Julia Schroeder
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Bundesallee 68,
38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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We buried tea bags and temperature loggers in a paired-plot design in soils under forest and agricultural land and retrieved them after 2 years to quantify the effect of land-use change on soil temperature and litter decomposition in subarctic agricultural systems. We could show that agricultural soils were on average 2 °C warmer than forests and that litter decomposition was enhanced. The results imply that deforestation amplifies effects of climate change on soil organic matter dynamics.
We buried tea bags and temperature loggers in a paired-plot design in soils under forest and...
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