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We further show that (1) elevated<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CO</jats:styled-content><jats:sub>2</jats:sub>, warming, N addition, P addition and increased rainfall, all exerted positive individual effects on plant C pools at both single‐plant and plant‐community levels; (2) plant C pool responses to individual or combined effects of multiple drivers are seldom scale‐dependent (i.e. not differing from single‐plant to plant‐community levels) and (3) soil and microbial biomass C pools are significantly less sensitive than plant C pools to individual or combined effects. We provide a quantitative basis for integrating additive effects of multiple global change drivers into future assessments of the C storage ability of terrestrial ecosystems.</jats:p>","journal":"Ecology Letters","year":2017,"id":23977,"datarank":7.745875397080532,"base_score":5.5134287461649825,"endowment":5.5134287461649825,"self_citation_contribution":0.8270143119247475,"citation_network_contribution":6.918861085155784,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8270143119247475,"citer_contribution":6.918861085155784,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":247,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":197,"citers_with_endowment":197,"datacite_reuse_total":2,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":145277,"name":"Dario A. 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