Relative importance of climatic variables, soil properties and plant traits to spatial variability in net CO2 exchange across global forests and grasslands

Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

(2020) Enzai Du et al.   Nature Geoscience

Traits mediate drought effects on wood carbon fluxes

(2020) Zhenhong Hu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns of soil autotrophic respiration and its relation to climate, soil and vegetation characteristics

(2020) Xiaolu Tang et al.   GEODERMA

Spatial patterns and climate controls of seasonal variations in carbon fluxes in China's terrestrial ecosystems

(2020) Lang Han et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

(2020) Gilberto Pastorello et al.   Scientific Data

Plant evolutionary history mainly explains the variance in biomass responses to climate warming at a global scale

(2019) Junjiong Shao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

(2019) Thomas A. M. Pugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A synthesis of ecosystem aboveground productivity and its process variables under simulated drought stress

(2019) Jiangbo Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate and Vegetation Drivers of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes: A Global Data Synthesis

(2019) Shutao Chen et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

(2019) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

(2019) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global subsoil organic carbon turnover times dominantly controlled by soil properties rather than climate

(2019) Zhongkui Luo et al.   Nature Communications

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

(2019) David M. Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Estimation of Global Grassland Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange Using a Model Tree Ensemble Approach

(2019) Wei Liang et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Functioning of potassium and magnesium in photosynthesis, photosynthate translocation and photoprotection

(2018) Merle Tränkner et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

(2018) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   SCIENCE

Precipitation thresholds regulate net carbon exchange at the continental scale

(2018) Zhihua Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Using plant, microbe and soil fauna traits to improve the predictive power of biogeochemical models

(2018) Ellen L. Fry et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2018) Peter B. Reich et al.   NATURE

Soil aggregates regulate the impact of soil bacterial and fungal communities on soil respiration

(2018) Chao Yang et al.   GEODERMA

Reducing uncertainty in projections of terrestrial carbon uptake

(2017) Nicole S Lovenduski et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Grassland gross carbon dioxide uptake based on an improved model tree ensemble approach considering human interventions: global estimation and covariation with climate

(2017) Wei Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drivers of terrestrial plant production across broad geographical gradients

(2017) Sean T. Michaletz et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Specific leaf area predicts dryland litter decomposition via two mechanisms

(2017) Guofang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Linear and nonlinear effects of dominant drivers on the trends in global and regional land carbon uptake: 1959 to 2013

(2016) Xuanze Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Unchanged carbon balance driven by equivalent responses of production and respiration to climate change in a mixed-grass prairie

(2016) Xia Xu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Does climate directly influence NPP globally?

(2015) Chengjin Chu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global land cover mapping at 30m resolution: A POK-based operational approach

(2015) Jun Chen et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Specific leaf area correlates with temperature: new evidence of trait variation at the population, species and community levels

(2015) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   Alpine Botany

Uncertain effects of nutrient availability on global forest carbon balance

(2015) Enzai Du   Nature Climate Change

Gross primary production of global forest ecosystems has been overestimated

(2015) Jianyong Ma et al.   Scientific Reports

Fusion of Plant Height and Vegetation Indices for the Estimation of Barley Biomass

(2015) Nora Tilly et al.   Remote Sensing

Model selection for ecologists: the worldviews of AIC and BIC

(2014) Ken Aho et al.   ECOLOGY

Fire in Australian savannas: from leaf to landscape

(2014) Jason Beringer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

(2014) Bryan Finegan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Xuhui Wang et al.   NATURE

Plant trait-based models identify direct and indirect effects of climate change on bundles of grassland ecosystem services

(2014) P. Lamarque et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

(2014) M. Reichstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High clay content accelerates the decomposition of fresh organic matter in artificial soils

(2014) Hui Wei et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

(2014) M. Fernández-Martínez et al.   Nature Climate Change

The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits - V cmax and J max - to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

(2014) Anthony P. Walker et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Temperature and precipitation control of the spatial variation of terrestrial ecosystem carbon exchange in the Asian region

(2013) Zhi Chen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

(2013) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Convergence of potential net ecosystem production among contrasting C3grasslands

(2013) Matthias Peichl et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variations of root and heterotrophic respiration along environmental gradients in China's forests

(2013) P. Li et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Spatial variability and controls over biomass stocks, carbon fluxes, and resource-use efficiencies across forest ecosystems

(2013) Marcos Fernández-Martínez et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes

(2012) Tana E. Wood et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spatial patterns and climate drivers of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of China

(2012) Gui-Rui Yu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

(2010) Chuixiang Yi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico

(2010) KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables

(2009) WENPING YUAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial distribution of carbon balance in forest ecosystems across East Asia

(2008) Ryuichi Hirata et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

TURNER REVIEW No. 15.'Breathing' of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

(2008) Dennis Baldocchi   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Organo-mineral associations in temperate soils: Integrating biology, mineralogy, and organic matter chemistry

(2008) Ingrid Kögel-Knabner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE