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  • Ecology
  • Climate Science
  • Biogeochemistry

Background:

  • Ecosystem productivity responses to warming are crucial for carbon-climate feedback predictions.
  • Current understanding is limited, with temperature and water availability not fully explaining observed variations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the primary drivers of ecosystem productivity response to warming.
  • To elucidate the role of soil nitrogen availability in modulating warming effects on ecosystems.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two complementary meta-analyses of temperature manipulation and warming × nitrogen addition experiments.
  • Utilized meta-regression to analyze warming effects on productivity and soil nitrogen availability.
  • Synthesized data from full-factorial experiments to assess nitrogen's regulatory role.

Main Results:

  • Soil nitrogen (N) availability, rather than temperature or hydrology, was the dominant factor influencing warming effects on ecosystem productivity.
  • Warming-induced increases in N availability correlated with enhanced productivity, indicating N limitation.
  • Nitrogen addition experiments confirmed that N availability regulates the magnitude of warming's impact on productivity.

Conclusions:

  • Soil nitrogen dynamics are a critical, often overlooked, factor in predicting ecosystem productivity responses to climate change.
  • The "N scaling" of warming effects provides a new mechanistic understanding for refining climate models and projections.