Plant input does not exert stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence than climate in alpine grasslands

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We demonstrated that ignoring the non-linear relationship between topsoil Δ¹⁴ C and plant carbon (C) input in Wu et al.'s analysis was the fundamental reason for the discrepancy between their analysis and ours. By considering such a non-linear relationship, plant C input still predominantly governs the topsoil C turnover.