Simple Summary Microorganisms and their enzymes are crucial to ensuring soil quality,
health, and carbon sequestration. Their numerous reactions are essential for …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 939–947 Abstract Tropical rain forests play a dominant role in
global biosphere‐atmosphere CO2 exchange. Although climate and nutrient availability …

Understanding the mechanisms controlling the formation and persistence of soil organic
matter (SOM) is important for managing soil health and sustainable food production. The …

The relative activities of soil enzymes involved in mineralizing organic carbon (C), nitrogen
(N), and phosphorus (P) reveal stoichiometric and energetic constraints on microbial …

Iron (Fe)-bearing mineral phases contribute disproportionately to adsorption of soil organic
matter (SOM) due to their elevated chemical reactivity and specific surface area (SSA) …

Bacteria control major nutrient cycles and directly influence plant, animal and human health.
However, we know relatively little about the forces sha** their large‐scale ecological …

We observed strong positive relationships between soil properties and forest dynamics of
growth and mortality across twelve primary lowland tropical forests in a phosphorus-poor …

Litter decomposition and nutrient release are key processes for soil C and nutrient cycling.
However, the relative importance of the effects of litter quality, fauna and decomposition site …

Tropical forests dominate global terrestrial carbon (C) exchange, and recent droughts in the
Amazon Basin have contributed to short‐term declines in terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake …

Experimental evidence for limitation of net primary productivity (NPP) by nitrogen (N) or
phosphorus (P) in lowland tropical forests is rare, and the results from the few existing …