Jianwu Tang

TL;DR: A meta-analysis suggests that nitrogen deposition impedes organic matter decomposition, and thus stimulates carbon sequestration, in temperate forest soils where nitrogen is not limiting microbial growth as mentioned in this paper, and the concomitant reduction in soil carbon emissions is substantial, and equivalent in magnitude to the amount of carbon taken up by trees owing to nitrogen fertilization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive global database for forest ecosystems, which includes carbon budget variables (fluxes and stocks), ecosystem traits (e.g., leaf area index, age), as well as ancillary site information such as management regime, climate, and soil characteristics.

TL;DR: Xu et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed 3 years of carbon flux data from continuous eddy covariance measurements to investigate how soil moisture, rain pulses, and growth alter the response of ecosystem respiration to temperature.

TL;DR: A review of the status and major challenges in representing the impacts of disturbances in modeling the carbon dynamics across North America revealed some major advances and challenges as mentioned in this paper, and significant advances have been made in representation, scaling, and characterization of disturbances that should be included in regional modeling efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured soil respiration and canopy photosynthesis over an oak-grass savanna during the summer, when the annual grass between trees was dead, to estimate how tree photosynthesis modulates soil this paper.