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We wish to thank J. Cole, M. Pace, M. Reichstein and D. Baldocchi for helpful comments that greatly improved the manuscript. M. Mahecha, C. S. Hopkinson, E. Smith, C. Gudasz, C. Solomon, E. Gaiser, E. de Eyto, C.-Y. Chiu, D. Hamilton, S. Hendricks, R. Adrian, K. Rose, D. Bruesewitz, D. Richardson, M. Van de Bogert, FLUXNET and GLEON are gratefully acknowledged for supplying raw data. G.Y.-D., M.T. and G.W. acknowledge the support of the Natural Environment Research Council, UK (grant NE/F004753/1) for financial support. P.A.S. was funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Sciences grant 10-085238 and the Danish Centre for Lake Restoration (CLEAR). J.P. acknowledges the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence program (project number 218094) for funding. J.M.M. was supported by a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-892 2008-03664), a Ministry of Economy grant (CGL2010-20091) and Generalitat de Catalunya grant (2009SGR142).

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  1. Gabriel Yvon-Durocher and Andrew P. Allen: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK,
    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Matteo Dossena, Mark Trimmer & Guy Woodward
  2. Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ. UK,
    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
  3. Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, 32514, Florida, USA
    Jane M. Caffrey
  4. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra I-21027, Italy,
    Alessandro Cescatti
  5. Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Province of Québec, H2X 3X8, Canada,
    Paul del Giorgio
  6. Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49 E-08003 Barcelona, Spain,
    Josep M. Gasol & José M. Montoya
  7. University of Helsinki Department of Forest Sciences, PO Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
    Jukka Pumpanen
  8. Aarhus University, Institute of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399PO Box 358, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark,
    Peter A. Staehr
  9. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia,
    Andrew P. Allen

Authors

  1. Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
  2. Jane M. Caffrey
  3. Alessandro Cescatti
  4. Matteo Dossena
  5. Paul del Giorgio
  6. Josep M. Gasol
  7. José M. Montoya
  8. Jukka Pumpanen
  9. Peter A. Staehr
  10. Mark Trimmer
  11. Guy Woodward
  12. Andrew P. Allen

Contributions

G.Y.-D. and A.P.A. analysed the data, wrote the manuscript, and devised the research. A.C., J.M.C., M.D., P.d.G., J.M.G., J.M.M., J.P., P.A.S., M.T. and G.W. commented on the manuscript. G.Y.-D., A.P.A., P.d.G., J.M.M. and M.T. discussed ideas. A.C., J.M.C., M.D., P.d.G., J.P., M.T. and P.A.S. provided raw data.

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Yvon-Durocher, G., Caffrey, J., Cescatti, A. et al. Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types.Nature 487, 472–476 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11205

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