Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Feng Tao & Benjamin Z. Houlton
Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Feng Tao, Cuijuan Liao, Yi-Shuang Liang & Xiaomeng Huang
Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Benjamin Z. Houlton
Center for Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Serita D. Frey
Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Johannes Lehmann, Lifen Jiang, Kostiantyn Viatkin & Yiqi Luo
Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Stefano Manzoni & Gustaf Hugelius
Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yuanyuan Huang
Computational Biology & Biophysics, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
Umakant Mishra
Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, USA
Umakant Mishra
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Bruce A. Hungate
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Bruce A. Hungate & Toby D. Hocking
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Michael W. I. Schmidt
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Markus Reichstein, Nuno Carvalhais & Bernhard Ahrens
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, DCEA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Nuno Carvalhais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
CSIRO Environment, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia
Ying-Ping Wang
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Xingjie Lu
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Zheng Shi
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Zheng Shi
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
Ronald Vargas, Yusuf Yigini, Christian Omuto, Guillermo Peralta, Rosa Cuevas-Corona, Luciano E. Di Paolo, Isabel Luotto & Vinisa S. Saynes
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Ashish A. Malik
F.T. and Y.L. drafted the reply. All authors contributed to the text and approved the final version.