Publications

Flagship Papers

Selected Bibliography

1. Cui, et al., Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils. Science Advances 12, eadz5319 (2026).
2. Chen, et al., High spatiotemporal resolution monitoring of crop water stress across the contiguous United States using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data. Agricultural Water Management 323, 110094 (2026).
3. Sun, et al., Warming Amplifies Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Multiple Global Change Drivers. Global Change Biology 31, e70612 (2025).
4. W. Cambron, et al., Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO2 and implications for the land carbon sink. Nat. Clim. Chang. 1–12 (2025).
5. Vallicrosa, et al., Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth System Dynamics 16, 1183–1196 (2025).
6. C. Fricke, S. C. Cook-Patton, C. F. Harvey, C. Terrer, Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2500951122 (2025).
7. A. Fesenmyer, et al., Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Nat Commun 16, 1–13 (2025).
8. Cui, et al., Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2424552122 (2025).
9. Jia, et al., A large global soil carbon sink informed by repeated soil samplings. [Preprint] (2025). Available at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650716v1
10. -M. Zeng, et al., Temperature thresholds induce abrupt shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem services in montane ecosystems worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2413981122 (2025).
11. Xiao, et al., Temporal and Phenological Modulation of the Impact of Increasing Drought Conditions on Vegetation Growth in a Humid Big River Basin: Insights From Global Comparisons. Earth’s Future 13, e2024EF005720 (2025).
12. M. Ordway, et al., The PANGEA Scoping Study Final Report. (2025). https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2398.
13. Cen, et al., Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests. One Earth (2024).
14. Peng, et al., Carbon restoration potential on global land under water resource constraints. Nat Water 1–11 (2024).
15. Zhou, et al., Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors. Nat. Geosci. 1–7 (2024).
16. Zhang, et al., Global evidence for joint effects of multiple natural and anthropogenic drivers on soil nitrogen cycling. Global Change Biology 30, e17309 (2024).
17. Ren, et al., Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities. Nat. Clim. Chang. 1–7 (2024).
18. Guo, E. Du, C. Terrer, R. B. Jackson, Global distribution of surface soil organic carbon in urban greenspaces. Nat Commun 15, 806 (2024).
19. A. Pellegrini, et al., Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 1089–1094 (2023).
20. Li, et al., Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass. National Science Review 10, nwad242 (2023).
21. Du, C. Terrer, S. G. McNulty, R. B. Jackson, “Chapter 4 – Nutrient limitation in global forests: current status and future trends” in Future Forests, S. G. McNulty, Ed. (Elsevier, 2024), pp. 65–74.
22. F. Keenan, et al., A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2. Nat. Clim. Chang. 1–6 (2023).
23. Vallicrosa, et al., Phosphorus scarcity contributes to nitrogen limitation in lowland tropical rainforests. Ecology 104, e4049 (2023).
24. Cui, et al., Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon. Global Change Biology 29, 4412–4429 (2023).
25. He, et al., CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra-tropical land. Global Change Biology 29, 4313–4326 (2023).
26. Ruehr, et al., Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nat Rev Earth Environ 1–17 (2023).
27. Van Sundert, et al., When things get MESI: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology 29, 1922–1938 (2023).
28. M. Bell, et al., Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nat Commun 14, 2139 (2023).
29. Zhou, et al., Nitrogen and water availability control plant carbon storage with warming. Science of The Total Environment 851, 158243 (2022).
30. Fleischer, C. Terrer, Estimates of soil nutrient limitation on the CO2 fertilization effect for tropical vegetation. Global Change Biology 28, 6366–6369 (2022).
31. Chen, et al., Long-term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 26, 5077–5086 (2020).
32. Walker, et al., Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2. New Phytologist 229, 2413–2445 (2021).
33. Ma, et al., The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass. Nat Ecol Evol 1–13 (2021).
34. Terrer, Balancing carbon storage under elevated CO 2. Nature (2021).
35. A. Hungate, et al., The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators. mBio 12 (2021).
36. Terrer, et al., A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2. Nature 591, 599–603 (2021).
37. A. Pellegrini, et al., Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1–9 (2021).
38. M. Bell, C. Terrer, C. Barriocanal, R. B. Jackson, A. Rosell-Melé, Soil organic carbon accumulation rates on Mediterranean abandoned agricultural lands. Science of The Total Environment 143535 (2020).
39. Franklin, et al., Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics. Nat. Plants 1–10 (2020).
40. Bell, C. Barriocanal, C. Terrer, A. Rosell-Melé, Management opportunities for soil carbon sequestration following agricultural land abandonment. Environmental Science & Policy 108, 104–111 (2020).
41. Du, et al., Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation. Nat. Geosci. 1–6 (2020).
42. Van Sundert, et al., Towards comparable assessment of the soil nutrient status across scales—Review and development of nutrient metrics. Global Change Biology 26, 392–409 (2020).
43. J. van Groenigen, et al., Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO2. Global Change Biology 23, 4420–4429 (2017).
44. A. Soudzilovskaia, et al., Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks. Nat Commun 10, 1–10 (2019).
45. Terrer, et al., Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 governed by plant–soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition. New Phytol 217, 507–522 (2018).
46. Terrer, et al., Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO 2 fertilization of global plant biomass. Nature Climate change 9, 684–689 (2019).
47. Terrer, et al., Response to Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect.” Science 355, 358–358 (2017).
48. Terrer, S. Vicca, B. A. Hungate, R. P. Phillips, I. C. Prentice, Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect. Science 353, 72–74 (2016).
49. G. De Kauwe, T. Keenan, B. E. Medlyn, I. C. Prentice, C. Terrer, Satellite based estimates underestimate the effect of CO2 fertilization on net primary productivity. Nature Climate change 6, 892–893 (2016).