5/🌍 Especially in ecosystems with high carbon storage and the majority of biomass located below ground, these processes could contribute to increased carbon release and reduce carbon storage potential.

4/🥕 Root decomposition is more sensitive to warming, often underestimated, potentially leading to an overall underestimation of warming’s impact on decomposition. #Roots

3/ 🔑 Lower-quality plant litter, often resulting from shrubification and shifts in vegetation, decomposes faster under warming. These changes could accelerate carbon release, impacting carbon storage in ecosystems. 🌱 #Shrubification

2/🌡️ Our global meta-analysis of 109 warming studies reveals warming reduces plant decomposition in warm, dry regions but has little impact globally unless temperatures rise by 5.2°C.

Hi Robert, could you add me too? Thanks! 🌱