a bstract Efforts to manage soils for carbon (C) sequestration remain limited by our
understanding of how differences in plant traits and microbial traits mechanistically drive soil …

Belowground carbon (C) dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems play an important role in the
global C cycle and thereby in climate regulation. Globally, land-use change is a major driver …

Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of
warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a …

Redesigning agrosystems to include more ecological regulations can help feed a growing
human population, preserve soils for future productivity, limit dependency on synthetic …

Soils are an important site of carbon storage. Climate is generally regarded as one of the
primary controls over soil organic carbon,, but there is still uncertainty about the direction …

Whether the terrestrial biosphere will continue to act as a net carbon (C) sink in the face of
multiple global changes is questionable. A key uncertainty is whether increases in plant C …

Disentangling impacts of multiple global changes on terrestrial carbon cycling is important,
both in its own right and because such impacts can dampen or accelerate increases in …

Understanding the mechanisms mediating biodiversity effects on ecosystem functions and
services is considered a core issue in ecological and environmental sciences. We studied …

Trait-based approaches, which focus on the functional characteristics of organisms rather
than their taxonomic identity, offer a means to explain how plant communities and …

The storage of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in soil is important ecosystem functions.
Grassland biodiversity experiments have shown a positive effect of plant diversity on soil C …