Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

S Ruehr, TF Keenan, C Williams, Y Zhou, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has been partially mitigated by an increasing net land carbon sink in the
terrestrial biosphere; understanding the processes that drive this sink is thus essential for …

Evidence, causes, and consequences of declining nitrogen availability in terrestrial ecosystems

RE Mason, JM Craine, NK Lany, M Jonard, SV Ollinger… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The productivity of ecosystems and their capacity to support life depends on access to
reactive nitrogen (N). Over the past century, humans have more than doubled the global …

Soil organic matter priming: The pH effects

C Wang, Y Kuzyakov - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Priming of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition by microorganisms is a key
phenomenon of global carbon (C) cycling. Soil pH is a main factor defining priming effects …

Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Ju, JM Chen, P Ciais, A Cescatti… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

Soil carbon sequestration in the context of climate change mitigation: A review

CID Rodrigues, LM Brito, LJR Nunes - Soil Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review article aims to acknowledge the multifaceted functions of soil, and given its
status as the largest terrestrial carbon store, to reaffirm its previously established importance …

Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

E Du, C Terrer, AFA Pellegrini, A Ahlström… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) limitation constrains the magnitude of terrestrial carbon
uptake in response to elevated carbon dioxide and climate change. However, global maps …

Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis

KS Rocci, JM Lavallee, CE Stewart… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC), as the largest terrestrial carbon pool, plays an important role in
global carbon (C) cycling, which may be significantly impacted by global changes such as …

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

AP Walker, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) is increasing, which increases leaf‐scale
photosynthesis and intrinsic water‐use efficiency. These direct responses have the potential …

A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Plant carbon metabolism and climate change: elevated CO2 and temperature impacts on photosynthesis, photorespiration and respiration

ME Dusenge, AG Duarte, DA Way - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 32 I. The importance of plant carbon metabolism for climate change 32 II.
Rising atmospheric CO2 and carbon metabolism 33 III. Rising temperatures and carbon …