About the Authors

Jinfeng Chang

jinfeng.chang@lsce.ipsl.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nicolas Viovy

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nicolas Vuichard

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Philippe Ciais

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, UMR8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Matteo Campioli

Affiliation Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Katja Klumpp

Affiliation INRA, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, UREP, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Raphaël Martin

Affiliation INRA, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, UREP, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Adrian Leip

Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy

Jean-François Soussana

Affiliation INRA, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, UREP, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC N. Viovy N. Vuichard PC JFS. Performed the experiments: JC N. Viovy N. Vuichard. Analyzed the data: JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: N. Vuichard MC KK RM AL. Wrote the paper: JC PC MC KK AL.