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MODIS land surface temperature, black sky albedo, and the enhanced vegetation index were retrieved from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Centre (LP DAAC, https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/). Site-level data were retrieved from the FLUXNET (http://daac.ornl.gov/), IMECC (http://gaia.agraria.unitus.it/) and AMERIFLUX (http://ameriflux.ornl.gov/) databases. Christophe Moisy prepared Supplementary Fig. 1. S.L., M.J., J.O., M.J.M., K.Naudts and J.R. were funded through ERC starting grant 242564 and received additional funding through FWO-Vlaanderen. M.J. received funding also through the Nordic Centre of Excellence, DEFROST, under the Nordic Top-Level Research Initiative and the Center for Permafrost, CENPERM DNRF number 100. T.K. and S.E. were funded through the Einstein Foundation and the European Commission (VOLANTE FP7-ENV-265104). K.H.E. acknowledges funding from ERC starting grant 263522 LUISE. E.C. and M.F. received funding from the European Commission, FEDER Interreg Iva, 723 POCTEFA08/34 and ADEME. M.W. acknowledges funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the SPP1257 priority program, and the European Commission FP-7 226701 (CARBO-Extreme) and FP7-244122 (GHG-Europe), also for A.J.D. P.C.S. acknowledges funding from the US NSF EF #1241881, the Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship Programme, and the MT Institute on Ecosystems. The authors acknowledge the financial help of the European Commission through COST ES0805 for organizing the Potsdam workshop in support of this study, and the IMECC Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project under the 6th Framework Program (contract number 026188). This study contributes to the Global Land Project (http://www.globallandproject.org).

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  1. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement (LSCE), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Matthew J. McGrath, Kim Naudts, Juliane Otto & James Ryder
  2. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
    Mathilde Jammet
  3. Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman Montana 59717, USA,
    Paul C. Stoy & Tobias Kuemmerle
  4. Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
    Stephan Estel & Galina Churkina
  5. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
    Julia Pongratz & Morgan Ferlicoq
  6. Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Université Toulouse III, 18 avenue Edouard Belin bpi 2801 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, 4, France,
    Eric Ceschia
  7. Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Institute of Agricultural Climate Research, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
    Axel Don
  8. Institute of Social Ecology Vienna (SEC) Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt-Vienna-Graz, 1070 Vienna, Austria
    KarlHeinz Erb
  9. Department of Biology, Research Group on Plant and Vegetation Ecology, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
    Bert Gielen
  10. Department of Meteorology, Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Technische Universität Dresden, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
    Thomas Grünwald
  11. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth Massachusetts 02540, USA,
    Richard A. Houghton
  12. INRA, Grassland Ecosystem Research (UREP), 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France
    Katja Klumpp
  13. Georg-August University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2 37077 Göttingen, Germany,
    Alexander Knohl
  14. School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona 86011, USA,
    Thomas Kolb
  15. Germany and Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
    Tobias Kuemmerle
  16. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Change Research, PO Box 503 FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland,
    Tuomas Laurila & Annalea Lohila
  17. INRA, unité EPHYSE, 33140 Villenave d’Ornon, France
    Denis Loustau
  18. F.R.S.-FNRS and Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    Patrick Meyfroidt
  19. Alterra, PO Box 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands,
    Eddy J. Moors
  20. USDA Forest Service – Southern Research Station, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto North Carolina 28763, USA,
    Kim Novick
  21. Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Center for Ecosystems and Environmental Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus PO Box 49 4000 Roskilde, Denmark,
    Kim Pilegaard
  22. CESAM and Department of Environment, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
    Casimiro A. Pio
  23. CEFE CNRS, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Serge Rambal
  24. Department Hydrosystemmodellierung, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
    Corinna Rebmann
  25. School of Natural Resources, 32 L.W. Chase Hall, PO Box 830728, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583 0728, USA
    Andrew E. Suyker
  26. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences Leninsky pr., 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia
    Andrej Varlagin
  27. Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, section 5.4 Hydrology, GFZ German Research Center For Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
    Martin Wattenbach
  28. Department of Earth Sciences, Earth and Climate cluster, VU University Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1085 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
    A. Johannes Dolman

Authors

  1. Sebastiaan Luyssaert
  2. Mathilde Jammet
  3. Paul C. Stoy
  4. Stephan Estel
  5. Julia Pongratz
  6. Eric Ceschia
  7. Galina Churkina
  8. Axel Don
  9. KarlHeinz Erb
  10. Morgan Ferlicoq
  11. Bert Gielen
  12. Thomas Grünwald
  13. Richard A. Houghton
  14. Katja Klumpp
  15. Alexander Knohl
  16. Thomas Kolb
  17. Tobias Kuemmerle
  18. Tuomas Laurila
  19. Annalea Lohila
  20. Denis Loustau
  21. Matthew J. McGrath
  22. Patrick Meyfroidt
  23. Eddy J. Moors
  24. Kim Naudts
  25. Kim Novick
  26. Juliane Otto
  27. Kim Pilegaard
  28. Casimiro A. Pio
  29. Serge Rambal
  30. Corinna Rebmann
  31. James Ryder
  32. Andrew E. Suyker
  33. Andrej Varlagin
  34. Martin Wattenbach
  35. A. Johannes Dolman

Contributions

S.L., M.J., S.E., J.P., E.C., G.C., A.J.D., K.H.E., M.F., R.A.H., K.K., A.K., T. Kuemmerle, A.L., P.M., J.O., M.W. and P.C.S. designed the study. S.E., T. Kuemmerle. and J.O. analysed the remote sensing data. M.J., P.C.S., J.R. and S.L. analysed the site-level data. J.P., P.M. and K.H.E. analysed the land cover and land management data. E.C., A.J.D., A.D., M.F., B.G., T.G., A.K., T. Kolb, T.L., A.L., D.L., E.J.M., K.Novick, K.P., C.A.P., S.R., C.R., A.E.S., A.V. and P.C.S. provided site-level data. S.L., M.J., S.E., J.P., E.C., G.C., A.J.D., A.D., K.H.E., M.F., B.G., R.A.H., K.K., A.K., T. Kolb, T.Kuemmerle, A.L., M.J.M., P.M., E.J.M., K. Nauds, K. Novick, J.O., S.R., J.R., A.V., M.W. and P.C.S. contributed to discussing the results and writing the paper.

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Luyssaert, S., Jammet, M., Stoy, P. et al. Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature.Nature Clim Change 4, 389–393 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2196

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