# Response of Global Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Drought from 1981 to 2016
## Informed Consent Statement: Not applicable. **Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable. **Acknowledgments:** This work used eddy covariance data acquired and shared by the FLUXNET community, including these networks: AmeriFlux, AfriFlux, AsiaFlux, CarboAfrica, CarboEuropeIP, Carbof Italy, CarboMont, ChinaFlux, Fluxnet-Canada, GreenGrass, ICOS, KoFlux, LBA, NECC, OzFluxTERN, TCOS-Siberia, and USCCC. The ERA-Interim reanalysis data were provided by ECMWF and processed by LSCE. The FLUXNET eddy covariance data processing and harmonization was carried out by the European Fluxes Database Cluster, the AmeriFlux Management Project, and the Fluxdata project of FLUXNET, with the support of the CDIAC, the ICOS Ecosystem Thematic Centre, and the OzFlux, ChinaFlux, and AsiaFlux offices. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest. * (19) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; et al. Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. _Nature_**2004**, _429_, 651-654. [CrossRef]
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