Abstract:Global surface temperature is predicted to increase by 1.4 to 5.8℃ by the end of this century. However, the impacts of this projected warming on soil carbon balance and budget of terrestrial ecosystems are not clear. One major source of the uncertainty stems from warming effects on soil microbes, which exert dominant influence on soil organic carbon decomposition and storage in terrestrial ecosystems. We have therefore conducted an experiment in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem in the US Great Plains to study ...