Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

Nature

Volumn 540, Issue 7631, 2016, Pages 104-108

  Crowther, T W ^a,b   Todd Brown, K E O ^c   Rowe, C W ^b   Wieder, W R ^d,e   Carey, J C ^f   MacHmuller, M B ^g   Snoek, B L ^a,h   Fang, S ^i,j   Zhou, G ⁱ   Allison, S D ^k   Blair, J M ^l   Bridgham, S D ^m   Burton, A J ⁿ   Carrillo, Y ^o   Reich, P B ^o,p   Clark, J S ^q   Classen, A T ^r,s   Dijkstra, F A ^t   Elberling, B ^u   Emmett, B A ^v   Estiarte, M ^w,x   Frey, S D ^y   Guo, J ^z   Harte, J ^aa   Jiang, L ^ab   Johnson, B R ^m   Kroel Dulay G ^ac   Larsen, K S ^u   Laudon, H ^ad   Lavallee, J M ^g,ae   Luo, Y ^ab,af   Lupascu, M ^ag   Ma, L N ^ah   Marhan, S ^ai   Michelsen, A ^u   Mohan, J ^aj   Niu, S ^ak   Pendall, E ^o   Penuelas J ^w,x   Pfeifer Meister, L ^m   Poll, C ^ai   Reinsch, S ^v   Reynolds, L L ^m   Schmidt, I K ^u   Sistla, S ^al   Sokol, N W ^c   Templer, P H ^am   Treseder, K K ^k   Welker, J M ^an   Bradford, M A ^a,b   more..

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^h WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^j NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

ⁿ MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^q DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^u UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^v CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^w CSIC   (Spain)

^x CREAF   (Spain)

^y UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^z NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^ac INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^ad SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^af TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^ag NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^ah INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^ak INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^al HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^am Boston University   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SOIL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; SOIL CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WARMING; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85000415012     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20150     Document Type: Article

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