Although soil respiration is known to increase with warming, the long‐term stability of total forest soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and their compositional changes remain uncertain. Through a 12‐year soil warming experiment (+1.21°C) in temperate and subtropical forests, we found that SOC content remained stable in both 0–10 cm and 10–20 cm layers. A supporting global meta‐analysis further indicated that substantial SOC loss...

Aim To examine the contribution of large‐diameter trees to biomass, stand structure, and species richness across forest biomes. Location Global. Time period Early 21st century. Major taxa studied Woody plants. Methods We examined the contribution of large trees to forest density, richness and biomass using a global network of 48 large (from 2 to 60 ha) forest plots representing 5,601,473 stems across 9,298 species and 210 plan...

Methane (CH 4 ) emissions from tropical wetlands contribute 60%–80% of global natural wetland CH 4 emissions. Decreased wetland CH 4 emissions can act as a negative feedback mechanism for future climate warming and vice versa. The impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on CH 4 emissions from wetlands remains poorly quantified at both regional and global scales, and El Niño events are expected to become more severe b...