Influence of thinning on carbon storage mediated by soil physicochemical properties and microbial community composition in large Chinese fir timber plantation

These findings are important because they show that SOC and its fractions and the abundance of the soil microorganism community in large Chinese fir timber plantations can be significantly altered by thinning, thus affecting the capacity for carbon storage. These results may advance our understanding of how the density of large timber plantations could be modified to promote soil carbon storage.