Dunmei Lin

1 Introduction Litter decomposition plays an important role in carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in ecosystems (Handa et al. 2014; Xu et al. 2020). More than 90% of net primary production enters the soil through plant litter, thus supporting complex food webs (Gessner et al. 2010). During litter decomposition, the activities of colonizing microorganisms, in addition to physical leaching, are the main biological mechanisms driving decomposition.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no competing interest. Supporting Information Filename Description jec14297-sup-0001-Supinfo.docxWord 2007 document , 3.3 MB Table S1. Variation of soil properties across the 22 Pinus massoniana forest sites. Table S2. Results of the principal components analysis (PCA) on the 15 soil properties data. Table S3. Results of the principal components analysis (PCA) on the eight root functional traits. Table S4.

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