Microbial life-history strategies mediate soil organic carbon partitioning and stability during the temperate forest succession

We elucidated depth-explicit regulatory mechanisms: fungal and bacterial necromass C explained the observed reduction in POC and MAOC, highlighting the importance of the “in vivo turnover” pathway (yield growth strategy) in driving contrasted C pools turnover. While MAOC in surface layer was governed by reduced resource acquisition (A) strategy, favoring “ex vivo modification” pathways.