Soil respiration represents a major carbon flux between terrestrial ecosystems and the
atmosphere, and is expected to accelerate under climate warming. Despite its importance in …

The respiratory release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil is a major yet poorly understood
flux in the global carbon cycle. Climatic warming is hypothesized to increase rates of soil …

Heterotrophic soil microbial respiration—one of the main processes of carbon loss from the
soil to the atmosphere—is sensitive to temperature in the short term. However, how this …

Soil respiration (Rs) is a major pathway by which fixed carbon in the biosphere is returned to
the atmosphere, yet there are limits to our ability to predict respiration rates using …

Soil carbon losses to the atmosphere, via soil heterotrophic respiration, are expected to
increase in response to global warming, resulting in a positive carbon-climate feedback …

While soil respiration is known to be controlled by a range of biotic and abiotic factors, its
temperature sensitivity in global models is largely related to climate parameters. Here, we …

The sensitivity of soil microbial respiration to warming (Q 10) remains a major source of
uncertainty surrounding the projections of soil carbon emissions to the atmosphere as the …

Climate warming may stimulate microbial metabolism of soil carbon, causing a carbon-cycle–
climate feedback whereby carbon is redistributed from the soil to atmospheric CO2. The …

The temperature sensitivity (Q 10) of soil respiration (Rs) is crucial to assess the carbon (C)
budget of terrestrial ecosystems under global warming. The Q 10 changes along a climatic …

Increasing global temperatures are predicted to stimulate soil microbial respiration. The
direct and indirect impacts of warming on soil microbes, nevertheless, remain unclear. This …