Zhong, HSmith, CarolRobinson, BKim, YDickinson, Nicholas2021-10-132020-09-262021-02-152020-09-221085-3278QB0BN (isidoc)https://hdl.handle.net/10182/14294We aim to understand the impact of ecological restoration on soil biogeochemistry, and the interrelationship between vegetation and soil phosphorus. In a study of two different-aged soils in coastal New Zealand, soils are described along a transition from abandoned agricultural pasture, through 6-year old restoration plots, towards forest fragments that have been largely undisturbed for 75 and 166 years. Soil biogeochemistry varied spatially along this restoration trajectory; there were profound changes in surface soil, but little impact on deeper soil horizons. In the early stages, soil organic matter accumulation and decomposition, and increasing demand of N from fast-growing plants corresponded with rapid nutrient mineralization. Loss of soil total P, an increase of occluded P, and the increasing importance of soil organic P as soils weathered and aged, supported conceptual models of longer-term soil pedogenesis. There was no evidence that the success of the establishment of plants varied across the site, but this is a first report of vegetation establishment during ecological restoration markedly impacting soil P dynamics and biogeochemistry.pp.1250-1261en© 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.pedogenesisphosphorus dynamicsrestorationsoil biogeochemistrysoil chronosequenceJournal Article10.1002/ldr.37821099-145XANZSRC::3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscienceANZSRC::4104 Environmental management