Ecosystem respiration (ER) often responds asymmetrically to seasonal warming and cooling, producing thermal hysteresis. Yet, its global patterns and drivers remain unknown. Here, we used daily ER data from 324 eddy‐covariance sites worldwide and revealed two contrasting hysteresis patterns in the temperature response of ER: clockwise hysteresis (ER is higher during the warming than cooling season) at 173 sites and counterclock...

Gross primary production (GPP), ecosystem respiration (ER), and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) can be used to assess the metabolic equilibrium of estuarine‐coastal continuums, which regulates the regional carbon (C) balance. Estuarine‐coastal continuums are modulated by the confluence of distinct water masses—nearshore diluted water, offshore Yellow Sea cold water, and offshore East China Sea warm water—yet the underlying me...

The CO 2 ‐fertilisation effect (CFE) on vegetation productivity is the major driver of the enhanced land carbon sink in recent decades. CFE theoretically increases with elevation due to the higher sensitivity of carboxylation to an increase of CO 2 under lower CO 2 partial pressure, but the elevation‐dependent CFE pattern has been largely overlooked. By conducting a 6‐year CO 2 enrichment experiment (+100 ppm) in an alpine gra...

Restoration of terrestrial ecosystems, through both natural and active approaches, is critical for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. However, the long‐term effects of these restoration approaches on soil aggregate organic carbon remain poorly understood. In this study, we conducted a global meta‐analysis to assess the temporal effects of natural and active restoration on SOC and aggregate organic carbon, including m...

Aerobic soils remove methane from the atmosphere, but global soil methane uptake (SMU) estimates remain highly uncertain due to challenges in scaling local data. We develop a data‐driven approach to refine this global estimate by incorporating local data of 79,800 flux measurements from 198 sites. This novel approach links the global SMU budget to local SMU fluxes by varying its parameters with soil properties. Our 2003–2018 g...