Agroforestry development drives a progressive shift from physicochemical to microbially mediated organic matter cycling in tropical soils.
Land-use change in tropical soils alters dissolved organic matter (DOM) chemistry and carbon cycling, however, linkages to microbial functions remain unresolved. We tested whether microbial carbon-degradation potential is associated with DOM composition along an Amazonian agroforestry chronosequence (10, 20, and 30 yea...