David W Kicklighter¹, Jerry M Melillo¹, Erwan Monier², Andrei P Sokolov³ and Qianlai Zhuang⁴, (1)MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States