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Climate-driven divergence between leaf and stem phenology constrains carbon dynamics in trees Open

Lei Chen, Anqi Yang, Ge Bai, Haoyu Qiu, Minghong Yu , et al. · 2025

Leaves and stems jointly regulate carbon assimilation, water transport, and carbohydrate storage, forming the foundation of tree growth and forest carbon cycling. Coordinated phenology between these organs enables efficient allocation of p…

Climate change has desynchronised insect and vegetation phenologies across Europe Open

Huang Yanru, Chaoyang Wu, Wenjiang Huang, Salguero-Gómez Roberto · 2025

This study evaluates how climate change has affected the phenological synchrony between vegetation and insects across Europe. Leveraging 34 years of remote‑sensing observations and citizen‑science records, we analysed observations of 1,495…

Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001 Open

Qiancheng Lv, Ziyue Chen, Chaoyang Wu, Josep Peñuelas, Lei Fan , et al. · 2025

Nitrogen deposition favors later leaf senescence in woody species Open

Jian Wang, Xiaoyue Wang, Josep Peñuelas, Hao Hua, Chaoyang Wu · 2025

China has experienced an unprecedented increase in nitrogen deposition over recent decades, threatening ecosystem structure, functioning, and resilience. However, the impact of elevated nitrogen deposition on the date of foliar senescence …

Delayed leaf green-up is associated with fine particulate air pollution in China Open

Wenjun Qu, Hao Hua, Ting Yang, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas , et al. · 2025

Climate warming has led to earlier leaf green-up dates (GUD) with a greening trend of land surfaces in spring, yet the influence of multi-source particle pollution is not well understood. Using ground records and satellite observations of …

Contrasting Trends in Onset of Spring Green‐Up Between Grasslands and Forests in China Open

Ying Hu, Bo Fu, Katerina Michaelides, Martin G. De Kauwe, Jian Wang , et al. · 2025

Spring vegetation phenology (green‐up onset date, GUD) exhibits notable sensitivity to climate change, serving as a critical indicator of ecosystem dynamics. However, long‐term changes and drivers of GUD remain unclear. Here we showed that…

Disentangling Ecological Restoration's Impact on Terrestrial Water Storage Open

Xiaozhe Shen, Liantao Niu, Xiaoxu Jia, Ting Yang, Wei Hu , et al. · 2025

Large‐scale ecological restoration (ER) in semiarid regions is often associated with substantial terrestrial water storage (TWS) depletion. This study challenged previous estimates by demonstrating the critical importance of considering ot…

Extreme hydroclimates amplify the biophysical effects of advanced green-up in temperate China Open

Lingxue Yu, Ye Liu, Miaogen Shen, Zicheng Yu, Xuan Li , et al. · 2025

Declining precipitation frequency may drive earlier leaf senescence by intensifying drought stress and enhancing drought acclimation Open

Xinyi Zhang, Xiaoyue Wang, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas, Yang Li , et al. · 2025

Precipitation is an important factor influencing the date of foliar senescence, which in turn affects carbon uptake of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the temporal patterns of precipitation frequency and its impact on foliar senescence da…

Late spring frost delays tree spring phenology by reducing photosynthetic productivity Open

Jinmei Wang, Hao Hua, Jing Guo, Xu Huang, Xin Zhang , et al. · 2025

FROM-GLC Plus 3.0: Multimodal Land Change Mapping with SAM and Dense Surface Observations Open

Le Yu, Zhenrong Du, Xiyu Li, Jiatong Gu, Xinyue Li , et al. · 2025

Land cover mapping plays a critical role in monitoring land system changes. Despite advancements in remote sensing technologies, traditional satellite-based approaches are often constrained by cloud cover, coarse temporal resolution, and l…

Drought-induced stress on rainfed and irrigated agriculture: Insights from multi-source satellite-derived ecological indicators Open

Yanan Chen, Ying Wang, Chaoyang Wu, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Meihong Fang , et al. · 2024

The increasing frequency and severity of droughts, driven by rising global temperatures, are impacting crop yields. Elucidating the response of agricultural ecosystems to droughts under different management practices is vital for food secu…

Vegetation greening enhances global fire activity Open

Yongguang Zhang, Gengke Lai, Chaoyang Wu, Alessandro Cescatti, Grégory Duveiller , et al. · 2024

Global terrestrial ecosystems have witnessed increased vegetation greenness^1–3 and intensified fire regimes^4–7 in many ecosystems worldwide, but the potential connections between them remain elusive. We quantify the i…

Shifts in Climatic Limitations on Global Vegetation Productivity Unveiled by Shapley Additive Explanation: Reduced Temperature but Increased Water Limitations Open

Jiangliu Xie, Gaofei Yin, Qiaoyun Xie, Chaoyang Wu, Wenping Yuan , et al. · 2024

Global fluctuations in vegetation productivity are intricately tied to climatic variability, but how climate change will alter climatic limitations on productivity is unclear. Here, we used shapley additive explanation (SHAP), a novel tech…

Forest Areas in China Are Recovering Since the 21st Century Open

Xuexin Wei, Ronggao Liu, Yang Liu, Jiaying He, Jilong Chen , et al. · 2024

China is reported as the leading country in the Earth's greening. However, it is a challenge to capture the gradual recovery in forest cover and distinguish the contribution of trees from herbaceous vegetation using remote sensing data. We…

Early warning of drought-induced vegetation stress using multiple satellite-based ecological indicators Open

Ying Wang, Yanan Chen, Jianguang Wen, Chaoyang Wu, Wendy Zhou , et al. · 2024

Droughts have posed, and continue to pose, severe risks to terrestrial ecosystems. Particularly against the backdrop of global climate change, the intensity and frequency of extreme droughts are expected to further aggravate. However, a si…

Greening‐Induced Biophysical Impacts Lead to Earlier Spring and Autumn Phenology in Temperate and Boreal Forests Open

Jing Guo, Jinmei Wang, Yuxin Qiao, Xu Huang, Nicholas G. Smith , et al. · 2024

Tree phenology, the timing of periodic biological events in trees, is highly sensitive to climate change. Previous studies have indicated that forest greening can impact the local climate by modifying the seasonal surface energy budget. Ho…

Flowering in the Northern Hemisphere is delayed by frost after leaf-out Open

Haoyu Qiu, Yan Qin, Yuchuan Yang, Xu Huang, Jinmei Wang , et al. · 2024

Late spring frosts, occurring after spring phenological events, pose a dire threat to tree growth and forest productivity. With climate warming, earlier spring phenological events have become increasingly common and led to plants experienc…

Three foci at the science-policy interface for systemic Sustainable Development Goal acceleration Open

Prajal Pradhan, Nina Weitz, Vassilis Daioglou, Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão, Cameron Allen , et al. · 2024

Earlier peak photosynthesis timing potentially escalates global wildfires Open

Gengke Lai, Jialing Li, Jun Wang, Chaoyang Wu, Yongguang Zhang , et al. · 2024

More intense fire weather due to climate change is implicated as a key driver of recent extreme wildfire events. As fuel stock, the role of vegetation and its phenology changes in wildfire dynamics, however is not fully appreciated. Using …

Power quality improvement of unipolar-input-bipolar-output DC transmission system via load power balancing Open

Zhuan Zhao, Haoran Li, Sun Fei, Shuhuai Shi, Di Wang , et al. · 2024

In DC transmission and distribution systems, both unipolar and bipolar transmission modes exist, and DC transformers used in these systems are also available in either unipolar or bipolar configurations. In actual systems, due to requireme…

Near surface camera informed agricultural land monitoring for climate smart agriculture Open

Le Yu, Zhenrong Du, Xiyu Li, Qiang Zhao, Hui Wu , et al. · 2024

Continuous and accurate monitoring of agricultural landscapes is crucial for understanding crop phenology and responding to climatic and anthropogenic changes. However, the widely used optical satellite remote sensing is limited by revisit…

Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming Open

P. R. Shen, Xiaoyue Wang, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas, Yuyu Zhou , et al. · 2024

Recent Water Constraints Mediate the Dominance of Climate and Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> on Vegetation Growth Across China Open

Yang Song, Josep Peñuelas, Philippe Ciais, Songhan Wang, Yao Zhang , et al. · 2024

Multiple lines of evidence confirm a widespread increase in vegetation growth across China over the past few decades. The relationship between vegetation growth and water availability is thought to be becoming stronger under climate change…

Optimizing the detection of emerging infections using mobility-based spatial sampling Open

Die Zhang, Yong Ge, Jianghao Wang, Haiyan Liu, Wenbin Zhang , et al. · 2024

Timely and precise detection of emerging infections is imperative for effective outbreak management and disease control. Human mobility significantly influences the spatial transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. Spatial sampling, in…

Declining precipitation frequency drivers earlier leaf senescence by intensifying drought stress and enhancing drought acclimation Open

Chaoyang Wu, Xinyi Zhang, Xiaoyue Wang, Constantin M. Zohner, Josep Peñuelas , et al. · 2024

Precipitation is an important factor influencing the date of leaf senescence (DFS), which in turn affects carbon uptake of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the temporal patterns of precipitation frequency (P_freq) and its impact …

Intranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China Open

Qiang Xing, Chaoyang Wu, Fang Chen, Jianguo Liu, Prajal Pradhan , et al. · 2024

Exploring the effect of vegetation photosynthesis phenology on wildfire dynamics Open

Gengke Lai, Jialing Li, Jun Wang, Chaoyang Wu, Yongguang Zhang , et al. · 2024

2023 has witnessed a record-breaking extreme wildfire season in Canada from coast to coast, following closely to the unprecedented wildfire outbreaks in 2019/20 Australia and 2021 Siberia, causing far-reaching threats on terrestrial carbon…

The start of frozen dates over northern permafrost regions with the changing climate Open

Jialing Li, Chaoyang Wu, Josep Peñuelas, Youhua Ran, Yongguang Zhang · 2024

Climate warming exerts important impacts on the freeze-thaw cycle in permafrost regions. Although increasing attention has been paid on understanding the responses of spring thawing to climate change, the mechanisms controlling the global …

Weakening warming on spring freeze–thaw cycle caused greening Earth’s third pole Open

Jialing Li, Chaoyang Wu, Yongguang Zhang, Josep Peñuelas, Lei Liu , et al. · 2024

The Tibetan Plateau, recognized as Earth’s third pole and among the most responsive regions to climate shifts, profoundly influences regional and even global hydrological processes. Here, we discerned a significant weakening in the influen…

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