A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

Elevated CO2 does not stimulate carbon sink in a semi-arid grassland

(2019) Jian Song et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Reconciling multiple impacts of nitrogen enrichment on soil carbon: plant, microbial and geochemical controls

(2018) Chenglong Ye et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?

(2018) Alan K. Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY

Favorable effect of mycorrhizae on biomass production efficiency exceeds their carbon cost in a fertilization experiment

(2018) Melanie S. Verlinden et al.   ECOLOGY

To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

(2018) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

(2018) A. T. Trugman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of climate warming on photosynthesis in boreal tree species depend on soil moisture

(2018) Peter B. Reich et al.   NATURE

Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands

(2018) Marina Dacal et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shrubland primary production and soil respiration diverge along European climate gradient

(2017) Sabine Reinsch et al.   Scientific Reports

Global evidence on nitrogen saturation of terrestrial ecosystem net primary productivity

(2016) Dashuan Tian et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

(2016) Marc Estiarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A cross-biome synthesis of soil respiration and its determinants under simulated precipitation changes

(2016) Lingli Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Interactive effects of global change factors on soil respiration and its components: a meta-analysis

(2016) Lingyan Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water-limited ecosystems to elevated CO2

(2016) Simone Fatichi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nonlinear, interacting responses to climate limit grassland production under global change

(2016) Kai Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

(2016) C. Terrer et al.   SCIENCE

Reduced CO2 fertilization effect in temperate C3 grasslands under more extreme weather conditions

(2016) W. A. Obermeier et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Experiments to confront the environmental extremes of climate change

(2015) Zachary E Kayler et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Does the growth response of woody plants to elevated CO2increase with temperature? A model-oriented meta-analysis

(2015) Sofia Baig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

(2015) E. A. G. Schuur et al.   NATURE

Model-data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

(2015) Richard J. Norby et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments

(2015) Melinda D. Smith et al.   OECOLOGIA

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

(2015) Belinda E. Medlyn et al.   Nature Climate Change

Conducting Meta-Analyses inRwith themetaforPackage

(2015) Wolfgang Viechtbauer   Journal of Statistical Software

Improving the representation of roots in terrestrial models

(2014) Erica A.H. Smithwick et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration

(2014) Xin Wang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

(2014) Xuhui Wang et al.   NATURE

Seasonal not annual rainfall determines grassland biomass response to carbon dioxide

(2014) Mark J. Hovenden et al.   NATURE

Using results from global change experiments to inform land model development and calibration

(2014) Jeffrey S. Dukes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment sites

(2014) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Faster Decomposition Under Increased Atmospheric CO2 Limits Soil Carbon Storage

(2014) K. J. van Groenigen et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond realism in climate change experiments: gradient approaches identify thresholds and tipping points

(2013) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Means and extremes: building variability into community-level climate change experiments

(2013) Ross M. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2trends

(2013) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Altered root traits due to elevated CO2: a meta-analysis

(2013) Ming Nie et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Responses of ecosystem carbon cycle to experimental warming: a meta-analysis

(2012) Meng Lu et al.   ECOLOGY

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently

(2012) S. Vicca et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2and temperature

(2012) Wouter I. J. Dieleman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Urgent need for a common metric to make precipitation manipulation experiments comparable

(2012) S. Vicca et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Crossing the threshold: the power of multi-level experiments in identifying global change responses

(2012) Paul Kardol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Warming accelerates decomposition of decades-old carbon in forest soils

(2012) F. M. Hopkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and aerosols in the Representative Concentration Pathways

(2011) Jean-François Lamarque et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

On the meta-analysis of response ratios for studies with correlated and multi-group designs

(2011) Marc J. Lajeunesse   ECOLOGY

Interactive responses of old-field plant growth and composition to warming and precipitation

(2011) Susanne S. Hoeppner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil warming, carbon-nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgets

(2011) J. M. Melillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

(2011) Sebastian Leuzinger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reduced N cycling in response to elevated CO2, warming, and drought in a Danish heathland: Synthesizing results of the CLIMAITE project after two years of treatments

(2010) KLAUS S. LARSEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem response to elevated CO2 levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift

(2010) J. Adam Langley et al.   NATURE

Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

(2010) I. A. Janssens et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate warming and biomass accumulation of terrestrial plants: a meta-analysis

(2010) Delu Lin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

(2010) M. D. Mahecha et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamic disequilibrium of the terrestrial carbon cycle under global change

(2010) Yiqi Luo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

(2009) Andrew D. B. Leakey et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Digging deeper: fine-root responses to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration in forested ecosystems

(2009) Colleen M. Iversen   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Belowground drought response of European beech: fine root biomass and carbon partitioning in 14 mature stands across a precipitation gradient

(2008) INA C. MEIER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland

(2008) WEIXING LIU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition

(2008) Jianyang Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST