Shifts in the brown food web along forest edge-to-interior gradients and their consequences for carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling Ghent University
Forests around the world are severely fragmented due to conversion to other land-use types.
Small and isolated forest fragments contain large proportions of forest edge, which store more
carbon and have a faster nutrient cycling than forest interiors. Hence, if forest edges are ignored in
carbon models, total carbon stocks are underestimated. A large part of all aboveground plant
material enters the soil as litter, ...