Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships
Abstract Fires alter the stability of organic matter and promote soil erosion which threatens the fundamental coupling of soil biogeochemical cycles. Yet, how soil biogeochemistry and its environmental drivers respond to fire remain virtually unknown globally. Here, we integrate experimental observa...
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| author | Guiyao Zhou Nico Eisenhauer Zhenggang Du Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja Kaiyan Zhai Miguel Berdugo Huimin Duan Han Wu Shengen Liu Daniel Revillini Tadeo Sáez-Sandino Hua Chai Xuhui Zhou Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo |
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| description | Abstract Fires alter the stability of organic matter and promote soil erosion which threatens the fundamental coupling of soil biogeochemical cycles. Yet, how soil biogeochemistry and its environmental drivers respond to fire remain virtually unknown globally. Here, we integrate experimental observations and random forest model, and reveal significant divergence in the responses of soil biogeochemical attributes to fire, including soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) contents worldwide. Fire generally decreases soil C, has non-significant impacts on total N, while it increases the contents of inorganic N and P, with some effects persisting for decades. The impacts of fire are most strongly negative in cold climates, conifer forests, and under wildfires with high intensity and frequency. Our work provides evidence that fire decouples soil biogeochemistry globally and helps to identify high-priority ecosystems where critical components of soil biogeochemistry are especially unbalanced by fire, which is fundamental for the management of ecosystems in a world subjected to more severe, recurrent, and further-reaching wildfires. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-532224c75d0f46f7b62ce2590e26e6522025-02-02T12:32:48ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-01-0116111210.1038/s41467-025-56598-zFire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationshipsGuiyao Zhou0Nico Eisenhauer1Zhenggang Du2Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja3Kaiyan Zhai4Miguel Berdugo5Huimin Duan6Han Wu7Shengen Liu8Daniel Revillini9Tadeo Sáez-Sandino10Hua Chai11Xuhui Zhou12Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo13Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Av. Reina Mercedes 10German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, School of Ecology, Northeast Forestry UniversityHigher Technical School of Agronomic and Forestry Engineering and Biotechnology, Castilla-La Mancha UniversityLaboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Av. Reina Mercedes 10Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de MadridInstitute of Ecology and Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, Shandong UniversityInstitute of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, School of Ecology, Northeast Forestry UniversityCollege of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityInstitute of Biology, Leipzig University, Puschstrasse 4Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney UniversityInstitute of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, School of Ecology, Northeast Forestry UniversityInstitute of Carbon Neutrality, Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, School of Ecology, Northeast Forestry UniversityLaboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Av. Reina Mercedes 10Abstract Fires alter the stability of organic matter and promote soil erosion which threatens the fundamental coupling of soil biogeochemical cycles. Yet, how soil biogeochemistry and its environmental drivers respond to fire remain virtually unknown globally. Here, we integrate experimental observations and random forest model, and reveal significant divergence in the responses of soil biogeochemical attributes to fire, including soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) contents worldwide. Fire generally decreases soil C, has non-significant impacts on total N, while it increases the contents of inorganic N and P, with some effects persisting for decades. The impacts of fire are most strongly negative in cold climates, conifer forests, and under wildfires with high intensity and frequency. Our work provides evidence that fire decouples soil biogeochemistry globally and helps to identify high-priority ecosystems where critical components of soil biogeochemistry are especially unbalanced by fire, which is fundamental for the management of ecosystems in a world subjected to more severe, recurrent, and further-reaching wildfires.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56598-z |
| spellingShingle | Guiyao Zhou Nico Eisenhauer Zhenggang Du Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja Kaiyan Zhai Miguel Berdugo Huimin Duan Han Wu Shengen Liu Daniel Revillini Tadeo Sáez-Sandino Hua Chai Xuhui Zhou Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships Nature Communications |
| title | Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| title_full | Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| title_fullStr | Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| title_short | Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| title_sort | fire driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56598-z |
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