Biomass allocation in plants is fundamental for understanding and predicting terrestrial
carbon storage. Yet, our knowledge regarding warming effects on root: shoot ratio (R/S) …

Since Grime's 1973 study on the competitive exclusion of herbaceous plants, ecologists
have intensively debated the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) relationships for …

Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the tree of life, but just how many
organisms live in soil is surprisingly unknown. Previous efforts to enumerate soil biodiversity …

Soil is the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon and is central for climate change
mitigation and carbon-climate feedbacks. Chemical and physical associations of soil carbon …

Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …

Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and
climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system. Remote-sensing estimates to …

Despite the recognized importance of the contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic
carbon (SOC) sequestration, at a global scale, there has been no quantification for cropland …

The recent wave of published global maps of ecological variables has caused as much
excitement as it has received criticism. Here we look into the data and methods mostly used …

Degradation of ecosystems can occur when certain ecological thresholds are passed below
which ecosystem responses remain within 'safe ecological limits'. Ecosystems such as …

Climate warming is changing the aboveground phenology of plants around the world.
However, the effects of warming on the belowground phenology of plants remain relatively …