Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Cheng Gong & Sönke Zaehle

Center for Earth System Science and Global Sustainability, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan & Shufen Pan

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Hanqin Tian

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Hong Liao

International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA

Naiqing Pan

Department of Engineering and Environmental Studies Program, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

Shufen Pan

Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Akihiko Ito

Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

Akihiko Ito

Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Atul K. Jain

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sian Kou-Giesbrecht

Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Fortunat Joos & Qing Sun

Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Fortunat Joos & Qing Sun

State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hao Shi

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE-IPSL (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nicolas Vuichard

Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA

Qing Zhu

Department of Biology Sciences, Institute of Environment Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Changhui Peng

School of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

Changhui Peng

Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Federico Maggi

Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Fiona H. M. Tang

C.G. and S.Z. drafted the reply. All authors contributed to and approved the final text.