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Articles | Volume 22, issue 23
Articles | Volume 22, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-7535-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-7535-2025
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 23
Research article
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02 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 02 Dec 2025

How does nitrogen control soil organic matter turnover and composition? – Theory and model

Chun Chung Yeung, Harald Bugmann, Frank Hagedorn, Margaux Moreno Duborgel, and Olalla Díaz-Yáñez

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To shed light on the interactions between soil nitrogen (N) and carbon (C), we set up a model “experiment” in silico to test several hypothesized responses of decomposers to N. We found that decomposers were stimulated by N when decomposing high C:N detritus, but inhibited when decomposing low C:N, processed organic C. The consequence is that under exogenous N addition (e.g., contemporary N deposition), forests may accumulate light fraction C predominantly, at the expense of coarse detritus.
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