Publications

Lab-Led Publications

Work led by the lab — César or a lab member as first, last, or corresponding author.

• N. 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).
• T. W. Cambron et al., Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO₂ and implications for the land carbon sink. Nature Climate Change 15, 935–946 (2025).
• E. C. Fricke et al., Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2500951122 (2025).
• H. 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).
• S. Ren et al., Pathways towards climate and health co-benefits in global ruminant sector. Research Square [Preprint] (2025).
• R. Jia et al., A large global soil carbon sink informed by repeated soil samplings. bioRxiv [Preprint] (2025).
• S. Ren et al., Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities. Nature Climate Change 14, 380–386 (2024).
• S. M. Bell et al., Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications 14, 2139 (2023).
• K. Fleischer et al., Estimates of soil nutrient limitation on the CO₂ fertilization effect for tropical vegetation. Global Change Biology 28, 6366–6369 (2022).
• C. Terrer et al., A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO₂. Nature 591, 599–603 (2021).
  • News & Views: C. Terrer, Balancing carbon storage under elevated CO₂. Nature (2021).
  • News & Views: A. Bastos, K. Fleischer, Effects of rising CO₂ levels on carbon sequestration are coordinated above and below ground. Nature 591, 532–534 (2021).
• C. Terrer et al., Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO₂ fertilization of global plant biomass. Nature Climate Change 9, 684–689 (2019).
• C. Terrer et al., Ecosystem responses to elevated CO₂ governed by plant–soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition. New Phytologist 217, 507–522 (2018).
• C. Terrer et al., Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect. Science 353, 72–74 (2016).
  • Comment: R. J. Norby, M. G. De Kauwe, A. P. Walker, C. Werner, S. Zaehle, D. R. Zak, Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect”. Science 355, 358–358 (2017).
  • Response: C. Terrer et al., Response to Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect”. Science 355, 358–358 (2017).

All Publications

• R. S. Powell et al., Assessing the net climate benefits of improved grazing intensity in global rangelands. Science 392, 1161–1166 (2026).
• S. Sun et al., Global hotspots of particulate organic carbon losses under climate change. Nature Communications 17, 4695 (2026).
• N. 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).
• Y. Cui et al., Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils. Science Advances 12, eadz5319 (2026).
• Y. Sun et al., Warming Amplifies Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Multiple Global Change Drivers. Global Change Biology 31, e70612 (2025).
• H. Zhang-Zheng et al., Diagnosing linearity along the carbon cascade in terrestrial biosphere models. bioRxiv [Preprint] (2025).
• T. W. Cambron et al., Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO₂ and implications for the land carbon sink. Nature Climate Change 15, 935–946 (2025).
• E. C. Fricke et al., Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2500951122 (2025).
• H. 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).
• J. A. Hogan et al., Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change. Plants, People, Planet 7, 1027–1042 (2025).
• S. Ren et al., Pathways towards climate and health co-benefits in global ruminant sector. Research Square [Preprint] (2025).
• K. A. Fesenmyer et al., Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications 16, 4572 (2025).
• Y. Cui et al., Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, e2424552122 (2025).
• R. Jia et al., A large global soil carbon sink informed by repeated soil samplings. bioRxiv [Preprint] (2025).
• X.-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).
• S. Yin et al., The complementarity hypothesis reversed: Root trait similarity in species mixtures promotes soil organic carbon in agroecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 203, 109736 (2025).
• J. 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).
• X. Cen et al., Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests. One Earth 8, 101132 (2025).
• E. M. Ordway et al., The PANGEA Scoping Study Final Report. ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center [Report] (2025).
• X. Liu et al., Contrasting drought tolerance traits of woody plants is associated with mycorrhizal types at the global scale. New Phytologist 244, 2024–2035 (2024).
• S. Peng et al., Carbon restoration potential on global land under water resource constraints. Nature Water 2, 1071–1081 (2024).
• J. Wu et al., Future soil organic carbon stocks in China under climate change. Cell Reports Sustainability 1, 100179 (2024).
• G. Zhou et al., Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors. Nature Geoscience 17, 882–888 (2024).
• Y. Zhang et al., Global evidence for joint effects of multiple natural and anthropogenic drivers on soil nitrogen cycling. Global Change Biology 30, e17309 (2024).
• S. Ren et al., Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities. Nature Climate Change 14, 380–386 (2024).
• H. Guo et al., Global distribution of surface soil organic carbon in urban greenspaces. Nature Communications 15, 806 (2024).
• Y. Zhang et al., Shifts in soil ammonia‐oxidizing community maintain the nitrogen stimulation of nitrification across climatic conditions. Global Change Biology 30, e16989 (2024).
• T. F. Keenan et al., A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO₂. Nature Climate Change 13, 1376–1381 (2023).
• H. Li et al., Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass. National Science Review 10, nwad242 (2023).
• A. F. A. Pellegrini et al., Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes. Nature Climate Change 13, 1089–1094 (2023).
• Y. Cui et al., Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon. Global Change Biology 29, 4412–4429 (2023).
• Y. 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).
• S. Ruehr et al., Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4, 518–534 (2023).
• H. Vallicrosa et al., Phosphorus scarcity contributes to nitrogen limitation in lowland tropical rainforests. Ecology 104, e4049 (2023).
• S. M. Bell et al., Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications 14, 2139 (2023).
• K. 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).
• Y. Wang et al., Urban CO₂ imprints on carbon isotope and growth of Chinese pine in the Beijing metropolitan region. Science of The Total Environment 866, 161389 (2023).
• G. Zhou et al., Nitrogen and water availability control plant carbon storage with warming. Science of The Total Environment 851, 158243 (2022).
• K. Fleischer et al., Estimates of soil nutrient limitation on the CO₂ fertilization effect for tropical vegetation. Global Change Biology 28, 6366–6369 (2022).
• W. Dai et al., Response of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil water‐stable aggregates to wheat straw incorporation in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 185, 317–328 (2022).
• H. Ma et al., The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1110–1122 (2021).
• B. A. Hungate et al., The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators. mBio 12, e00466–21 (2021).
• C. Terrer et al., A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO₂. Nature 591, 599–603 (2021).
  • News & Views: C. Terrer, Balancing carbon storage under elevated CO₂. Nature (2021).
  • News & Views: A. Bastos, K. Fleischer, Effects of rising CO₂ levels on carbon sequestration are coordinated above and below ground. Nature 591, 532–534 (2021).
• S. M. Bell et al., Soil organic carbon accumulation rates on Mediterranean abandoned agricultural lands. Science of The Total Environment 759, 143535 (2021).
• A. P. Walker et al., Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO₂. New Phytologist 229, 2413–2445 (2021).
• A. F. A. Pellegrini et al., Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 504–512 (2021).
• J. Chen et al., Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 26, 5077–5086 (2020).
• X. Huang et al., New soil carbon sequestration with nitrogen enrichment: a meta-analysis. Plant and Soil 454, 299–310 (2020).
• S. M. Bell et al., Management opportunities for soil carbon sequestration following agricultural land abandonment. Environmental Science & Policy 108, 104–111 (2020).
• O. Franklin et al., Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics. Nature Plants 6, 444–453 (2020).
• E. Du et al., Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation. Nature Geoscience 13, 221–226 (2020).
• K. 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).
• N. A. Soudzilovskaia et al., Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks. Nature Communications 10, 5077 (2019).
• C. Terrer et al., Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO₂ fertilization of global plant biomass. Nature Climate Change 9, 684–689 (2019).
• C. Terrer et al., Ecosystem responses to elevated CO₂ governed by plant–soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition. New Phytologist 217, 507–522 (2018).
• K. J. van Groenigen et al., Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO₂. Global Change Biology 23, 4420–4429 (2017).
• M. G. De Kauwe et al., Satellite based estimates underestimate the effect of CO₂ fertilization on net primary productivity. Nature Climate Change 6, 892–893 (2016).
• C. Terrer et al., Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect. Science 353, 72–74 (2016).
  • Comment: R. J. Norby, M. G. De Kauwe, A. P. Walker, C. Werner, S. Zaehle, D. R. Zak, Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect”. Science 355, 358–358 (2017).
  • Response: C. Terrer et al., Response to Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO₂ fertilization effect”. Science 355, 358–358 (2017).
• I. Banos-González et al., Dynamic modelling of the potential habitat loss of endangered species: the case of the Canarian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae). European Journal of Wildlife Research 62, 263–275 (2016).