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  1. Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils

    Article • Science Advances, January 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Cesar Terrer, Prof. Dr. Yakov Kuzyakov

  2. Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO2 and implications for the land carbon sink

    Article • Nature Climate Change, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  3. Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Cesar Terrer

  4. Regrowing tropical forests recover less carbon where seed dispersers have declined

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Evan Fricke, Cesar Terrer

  5. Pathways towards climate and health co-benefits in global ruminant sector

    Article • June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  6. Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  7. Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Cesar Terrer

  8. A large global soil carbon sink informed by repeated soil samplings

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Cesar Terrer

  9. Temperature thresholds induce abrupt shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem services in montane ecosystems worldwide

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Cesar Terrer

  10. The complementarity hypothesis reversed: Root trait similarity in species mixtures promotes soil organic carbon in agroecosystems

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, April 2025, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  11. Temporal and Phenological Modulation of the Impact of Increasing Drought Conditions on Vegetation Growth in a Humid Big River Basin: Insights From Global Comparisons

    Article • Earth s Future, March 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Cesar Terrer

  12. Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Cesar Terrer

  13. Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change

    Article • Plants People Planet, December 2024, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  14. Carbon restoration potential on global land under water resource constraints

    Article • Nature Water, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  15. Contrasting drought tolerance traits of woody plants is associated with mycorrhizal types at the global scale

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2024, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  16. Future soil organic carbon stocks in China under climate change

    Article • Cell Reports Sustainability, September 2024, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  17. Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  18. Author Correction: Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities

    Article • Nature Climate Change, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  19. Global evidence for joint effects of multiple natural and anthropogenic drivers on soil nitrogen cycling

    Article • Global Change Biology, May 2024, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  20. Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities

    Article • Nature Climate Change, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  21. Global distribution of surface soil organic carbon in urban greenspaces

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  22. A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2

    Article • Nature Climate Change, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  23. Global patterns of nitrogen saturation in forests

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  24. Publisher Correction: Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  25. Shifts in soil ammonia‐oxidizing community maintain the nitrogen stimulation of nitrification across climatic conditions

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2023, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  26. Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes

    Article • Nature Climate Change, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  27. Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass

    Article • National Science Review, September 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Cesar Terrer

  28. Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  29. Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2023, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  30. CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2023, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  31. Phosphorus scarcity contributes to nitrogen limitation in lowland tropical rainforests

    Article • Ecology, April 2023, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  32. Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  33. Urban CO2 imprints on carbon isotope and growth of Chinese pine in the Beijing metropolitan region

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2023, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  34. Determinants of the capacity of dryland ecosystems to store soil carbon under altered fire regimes

    Article • February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  35. When things get MESI: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2023, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  36. Nitrogen and water availability control plant carbon storage with warming

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2022, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  37. Estimates of soil nutrient limitation on the CO2 fertilization effect for tropical vegetation

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2022, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  38. Retraction Note: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

    Article • Nature, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  39. Response of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil water‐stable aggregates to wheat straw incorporation in the Yangtze River Delta of China#

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, March 2022, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  40.  RETRACTED ARTICLE: A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to increasing CO2

    Article • Nature, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  41. The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  42. Balancing carbon storage under elevated CO2

    Article • Nature, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  43. Nitrogen availability controls plant carbon storage with warming

    Article • May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  44. Nitrogen availability controls plant carbon storage with warming

    Article • April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  45. The Functional Significance of Bacterial Predators

    Article • mBio, April 2021, ASM Journals

    Cesar Terrer

  46. A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

    Article • Nature, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  47. Soil organic carbon accumulation rates on Mediterranean abandoned agricultural lands

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2021, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  48. Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  49. Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Article • New Phytologist, October 2020, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  50. New soil carbon sequestration with nitrogen enrichment: a meta-analysis

    Article • Plant and Soil, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Feike Dijkstra, Cesar Terrer

  51. Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Cesar Terrer

  52. Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2020, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  53. Management opportunities for soil carbon sequestration following agricultural land abandonment

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, June 2020, Elsevier

    Cesar Terrer

  54. Author Correction: Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    Article • Nature Climate Change, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  55. Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics

    Article • Nature Plants, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  56. Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

    Article • Nature Geoscience, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  57. Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  58. Towards comparable assessment of the soil nutrient status across scales—Review and development of nutrient metrics

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2019, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer

  59. Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    Article • Nature Climate Change, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  60. Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks

    Article • May 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Cesar Terrer

  61. Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 governed by plant-soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition

    Article • New Phytologist, November 2017, Wiley

    Benjamin Stocker, Cesar Terrer

  62. Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO2

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2017, Wiley

    Cesar Terrer, Feike Dijkstra

  63. Response to Comment on “Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2fertilization effect”

    Article • Science, January 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Benjamin Stocker, Cesar Terrer

  64. Erratum to: Dynamic modelling of the potential habitat loss of endangered species: the case of the Canarian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata fuertaventurae)

    Article • European Journal of Wildlife Research, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  65. Satellite based estimates underestimate the effect of CO2 fertilization on net primary productivity

    Article • Nature Climate Change, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer

  66. Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

    Article • Science, June 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Cesar Terrer

  67. Dynamic modelling of the potential habitat loss of endangered species: the case of the Canarian houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata fuerteventurae)

    Article • European Journal of Wildlife Research, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Cesar Terrer