Belowground climate change responses remain a key unknown in the Earth system. Plant
fine-root response is especially important to understand because fine roots respond quickly …

Whether and how warming alters functional traits of absorptive plant roots remains to be
answered across the globe. Tackling this question is crucial to better understanding …

Northern peatlands have accumulated one third of the Earth's soil carbon stock since the last
Ice Age. Rapid warming across northern biomes threatens to accelerate rates of peatland …

Belowground plant responses have received much less attention in climate change
experiments than aboveground plant responses, thus hampering a holistic understanding of …

Warming is expected to increase the net release of carbon from peatland soils, contributing
to future warming. This positive feedback may be moderated by the response of peatland …

Boreal peatlands may be particularly vulnerable to climate change, because temperature
regimes that currently constrain biological activity in these regions are predicted to increase …

Peatlands act as global sinks of atmospheric carbon (C) through the accumulation of organic
matter, primarily made up of decay-resistant litter of peat mosses. However, climate warming …

Soil temperature can influence the functioning of roots in many ways. If soil moisture and
nutrient availability are adequate, rates of root length extension and root mortality increase …

Peat soils drained for agriculture and forestry are important sources of carbon dioxide and
nitrous oxide. Rewetting effectively reduces these emissions. However, rewetting also …

Peatlands comprise a globally important carbon pool whose input–output budgets may be
significantly altered by climate change. To experimentally determine the sensitivity of the …