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 …

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 …

Soil carbon losses to the atmosphere through soil respiration are expected to rise with
ongoing temperature increases, but available evidence from mesic biomes suggests that …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Despite decades of research, how climate warming alters the global flux of soil respiration is
still poorly characterized. Here, we use meta‐analysis to synthesize 202 soil respiration …

Ecosystem carbon losses from soil microbial respiration are a key component of global
carbon cycling, resulting in the transfer of 40–70 Pg carbon from soil to the atmosphere each …

Enhanced soil respiration in response to global warming may substantially increase
atmospheric CO 2 concentrations above the anthropogenic contribution, depending on the …