Forest Plant Soil Microorganisms and Their Interactions

<p>Forests are the most important terrestrial ecosystems in the world providing diverse ecosystem services including food production biodiversity conservation sand storm prevention water and soil conservation nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration. It is well known that plants soil and microbes in forest ecosystems do not exist in isolation; rather they are intricately interconnected. Their complex coupling interrelationships are crucial for driving ecological processes and ecosystem functions in forest ecosystems. This reprint presents several new results on plant functional traits soil nutrient cycling soil microbial diversity and plant-soil microbe interactions from the perspective of forest succession elevation climate warming atmospheric N deposition land use changes and application of soil microbial inoculants aiming to promote forest management.</p>