Agriculture

Composite number

Ecology

Biology

Yield (engineering)

Agroforestry

Metallurgy

Materials science

Soil carbon

Climate change mitigation

Carbon fibers

Soil water

Climate change

Crop yield

Agronomy

Environmental science

Soil science

Composite material

Conservation agriculture

Carbon dioxide

Soil conservation

Carbon sequestration

Global Change Biology

This research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant Nos. 41530533 and 41573069) and the National Key R&D Program of China (grant No. 2017YFE0104600). We thank Prof. Xuhui Lee in Yale University, Dr. Zhongkui Luo in Zhejiang University, Prof. Ben Smith in Lund University and Dr. Xunyu Hu in East China Inventory and Planning Institute, State Forestry and Grassland Administration for their helpful comments that led to the improvement of this paper.

Climate drives global soil carbon sequestration and crop yield changes under conservation agriculture