Fig. 1From: Soil carbon and nutrient stocks under Scots pine plantations in comparison to European beech forests: a paired-plot study across forests with different management history and precipitation regimesLocation of the study sites. Location of the nine study sites in Germany (inlet) and location of the 18 stands in the North German Plain (grey-shaded, Be = near-natural beech forests, Pi = pine forests). The white triangles mark the location of the additionally analyzed seven recent pine stands in western Brandenburg adopted from Leuschner et al. (2013)Back to article page