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Predicting soil carbon loss with warming

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Figure 1: The change in soil carbon per degree of warming per year is not a function of carbon stock size.
Figure 2: Location of field warming studies used in our analyses.

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  1. Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409, Texas, USA

    Natasja van Gestel

  2. Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, Oklahoma, USA

    Zheng Shi

  3. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, UK

    Kees Jan van Groenigen

  4. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, Georgia, USA

    Craig W. Osenberg

  5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Louise C. Andresen

  6. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, Indiana, USA

    Jeffrey S. Dukes

  7. Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, Indiana, USA

    Jeffrey S. Dukes

  8. School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001, Tasmania, Australia

    Mark J. Hovenden

  9. Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 86011, Arizona, USA

    Yiqi Luo, Edward A. G. Schuur & Bruce A. Hungate

  10. Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 86011, Arizona, USA

    Yiqi Luo, Edward A. G. Schuur & Bruce A. Hungate

  11. Department of Biology and Center for Permafrost, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Anders Michelsen

  12. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, 2751, New South Wales, Australia

    Elise Pendall & Peter B. Reich

  13. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 55108, Minnesota, USA

    Peter B. Reich

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Contributions

N.v.G. extracted data from the literature and constructed the database. L.C.A., J.S.D., M.J.H., A.M., E.P., P.B.R, E.A.G.S., and B.A.H supplied non-published data from specific field warming experiments, Z.S., K.J.v.G., C.W.O. and Y.L. provided feedback on data analysis, N.v.G. performed the data analysis and wrote the manuscript draft. All authors contributed to interpretation of the findings and final writing of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Natasja van Gestel.

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Extended data figures and tables

Extended Data Figure 1 Results of a meta-analysis on the change in soil carbon per degree of warming per year.

The average response of soil carbon per degree of warming per year is not significantly different from zero (zero is within the 95% confidence interval of the mean) for the dataset used in Crowther et al.1 or for our dataset. See Supplementary Information for details.

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Supplementary Data 1

This file contains the main data file to be used with the R code. (CSV 11 kb)

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van Gestel, N., Shi, Z., van Groenigen, K. et al. Predicting soil carbon loss with warming. Nature 554, E4–E5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25745

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