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Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

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  • T. W. Crowther

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology
    Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University)

  • K. E. O. Todd-Brown

    (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland)

  • C. W. Rowe

    (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University)

  • W. R. Wieder

    (Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
    Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado)

  • J. C. Carey

    (Marine Biological Laboratory)

  • M. B. Machmuller

    (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, 1499 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University)

  • B. L. Snoek

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology
    Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University)

  • S. Fang

    (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
    Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast Meteorological Disaster Warning & Assessment, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology)

  • G. Zhou

    (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)

  • S. D. Allison

    (University of California Irvine
    University of California)

  • J. M. Blair

    (Kansas State University)

  • S. D. Bridgham

    (Institute of Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon)

  • A. J. Burton

    (School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University)

  • Y. Carrillo

    (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University)

  • P. B. Reich

    (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
    University of Minnesota)

  • J. S. Clark

    (Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University)

  • A. T. Classen

    (The Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken, 15, 2100, København Ø, Denmark.
    University of Tennessee)

  • F. A. Dijkstra

    (Centre for Carbon, Water & Food, The University of Sydney)

  • B. Elberling

    (Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.)

  • B. A. Emmett

    (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales)

  • M. Estiarte

    (CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès
    CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès)

  • S. D. Frey

    (University of New Hampshire)

  • J. Guo

    (Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University)

  • J. Harte

    (Energy & Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley)

  • L. Jiang

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • B. R. Johnson

    (University of Oregon)

  • G. Kröel-Dulay

    (Institute of Ecology & Botany, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Centre for Ecological Research)

  • K. S. Larsen

    (University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.)

  • H. Laudon

    (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden.)

  • J. M. Lavallee

    (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, 1499 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University
    Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

  • Y. Luo

    (University of Oklahoma
    Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University)

  • M. Lupascu

    (National University of Singapore)

  • L. N. Ma

    (State Key Laboratory of Vegetation & Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • S. Marhan

    (Institute of Soil Science & Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim)

  • A. Michelsen

    (Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
    University of Copenhagen)

  • J. Mohan

    (Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia)

  • S. Niu

    (Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation & Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • E. Pendall

    (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University)

  • J. Peñuelas

    (CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC, Cerdanyola del Vallès
    CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès)

  • L. Pfeifer-Meister

    (Institute of Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon)

  • C. Poll

    (Institute of Soil Science & Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim)

  • S. Reinsch

    (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales)

  • L. L. Reynolds

    (Institute of Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon)

  • I. K. Schmidt

    (University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.)

  • S. Sistla

    (School of Natural Science, Hampshire College)

  • N. W. Sokol

    (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland)

  • P. H. Templer

    (Boston University)

  • K. K. Treseder

    (University of California)

  • J. M. Welker

    (University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA.)

  • M. A. Bradford

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology
    Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University)

Abstract

A compilation of global soil carbon data from field experiments provides empirical evidence that warming-induced net losses of soil carbon could accelerate climate change.

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  • T. W. Crowther & K. E. O. Todd-Brown & C. W. Rowe & W. R. Wieder & J. C. Carey & M. B. Machmuller & B. L. Snoek & S. Fang & G. Zhou & S. D. Allison & J. M. Blair & S. D. Bridgham & A. J. Burton & Y. C, 2016. "Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming," Nature, Nature, vol. 540(7631), pages 104-108, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:540:y:2016:i:7631:d:10.1038_nature20150
    DOI: 10.1038/nature20150
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