Anthropogenic warming is projected to trigger positive feedbacks to climate by enhancing
carbon losses from the soil. While such losses are, in part, due to increased decomposition …

The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and functioning are likely to be
strongest at high latitudes due to the adaptation of biota to relatively low temperatures and …

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 …

Decomposition of organic material by soil microbes generates an annual global release of
50–75 Pg carbon to the atmosphere,∼ 7.5–9 times that of anthropogenic emissions …

Climate change has been shown to affect ecosystem process rates and community
composition, with direct and indirect effects on belowground food webs. In particular, altered …

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 …

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

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 …

Multiple facets of global change affect the earth system interactively, with complex
consequences for ecosystem functioning and stability. Simultaneous climate and …