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N.v.G. extracted data from the literature and constructed the database. L.C.A., J.S.D., M.J.H., A.M., E.P., P.B.R, E.A.G.S., and B.A.H supplied non-published data from specific field warming experiments, Z.S., K.J.v.G., C.W.O. and Y.L. provided feedback on data analysis, N.v.G. performed the data analysis and wrote the manuscript draft. All authors contributed to interpretation of the findings and final writing of the manuscript.
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Extended Data Figure 1 Results of a meta-analysis on the change in soil carbon per degree of warming per year.
The average response of soil carbon per degree of warming per year is not significantly different from zero (zero is within the 95% confidence interval of the mean) for the dataset used in Crowther et al.1 or for our dataset. See Supplementary Information for details.
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van Gestel, N., Shi, Z., van Groenigen, K. et al. Predicting soil carbon loss with warming. Nature 554, E4–E5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25745
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