Temporal Variability of Precipitation and Biomass of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Increased precipitation has stronger effects on plant production of an alpine meadow than does experimental warming in the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Gang Fu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Modeling vegetation green-up dates across the Tibetan Plateau by including both seasonal and daily temperature and precipitation

(2018) Ruyin Cao et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

High land-use intensity exacerbates shifts in grassland vegetation composition after severe experimental drought

(2018) Andreas Stampfli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Precipitation frequency alters peatland ecosystem structure and CO2 exchange: Contrasting effects on moss, sedge, and shrub communities

(2018) Danielle D. Radu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods

(2018) Matthew D. Petrie et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns and dynamics of the human appropriation of net primary production and its components in Tibet

(2018) Yanjie Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The impact of inter-annual rainfall variability on African savannas changes with mean rainfall

(2018) Alexis D. Synodinos et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Use of remote sensing indicators to assess effects of drought and human-induced land degradation on ecosystem health in Northeastern Brazil

(2018) Denis A. Mariano et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Human footprint in Tibet: Assessing the spatial layout and effectiveness of nature reserves

(2018) Shicheng Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Asymmetric sensitivity of ecosystem carbon and water processes in response to precipitation change in a semi-arid steppe

(2017) Bingwei Zhang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shifts of growing-season precipitation peaks decrease soil respiration in a semiarid grassland

(2017) Jingyi Ru et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatiotemporal pattern of gross primary productivity and its covariation with climate in China over the last thirty years

(2017) Yitong Yao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands

(2017) Britta Tietjen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach

(2017) Melinda D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Nonlinear responses of land ecosystems to variation in precipitation

(2017) Yiqi Luo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

(2017) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   SCIENCE

Grazing exclusion by fencing non-linearly restored the degraded alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

(2017) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Foliar nutrient resorption patterns of four functional plants along a precipitation gradient on the Tibetan Changtang Plateau

(2017) Guangshuai Zhao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Relationships between aboveground biomass and plant cover at two spatial scales and their determinants in northern Tibetan grasslands

(2017) Yanbin Jiang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Identifying the Relative Contributions of Climate and Grazing to Both Direction and Magnitude of Alpine Grassland Productivity Dynamics from 1993 to 2011 on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2017) Yunfei Feng et al.   Remote Sensing

Evaluation of Remote Sensing Inversion Error for the Above-Ground Biomass of Alpine Meadow Grassland Based on Multi-Source Satellite Data

(2017) Baoping Meng et al.   Remote Sensing

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

(2016) Marc Estiarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change scenarios for Tibetan Plateau summer precipitation based on canonical correlation analysis

(2016) Xiaoyang Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Contrasting effects of precipitation manipulations in two Great Plains plant communities

(2016) Kerry M. Byrne et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

(2016) Alistair W. R. Seddon et al.   NATURE

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Grazing Exclusion to Recover Degraded Alpine Pastures Needs Scientific Assessments across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Chengqun Yu et al.   Sustainability

Vegetation response to precipitation variability in East Africa controlled by biogeographical factors

(2016) P. Hawinkel et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Leaf unfolding of Tibetan alpine meadows captures the arrival of monsoon rainfall

(2016) Ruicheng Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Plant functional trait diversity regulates the nonlinear response of productivity to regional climate change in Tibetan alpine grasslands

(2016) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

The response of vegetation dynamics of the different alpine grassland types to temperature and precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Jian Sun et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Miaogen Shen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Short-term manipulation of precipitation in Mongolian steppe shows vegetation influenced more by timing than amount of rainfall

(2015) Laura A. Spence et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant community composition is a crucial factor for heath performance under precipitation extremes

(2015) Ellen Gellesch et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Application of Synthetic NDVI Time Series Blended from Landsat and MODIS Data for Grassland Biomass Estimation

(2015) Binghua Zhang et al.   Remote Sensing

The impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on alpine grassland over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2014) Baoxiong Chen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of livestock exclusion and climate change on aboveground biomass accumulation in alpine pastures across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jianshuang Wu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Precipitation and species composition primarily determine the diversity–productivity relationship of alpine grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Alpine Botany

Remote Sensing-Based Biomass Estimation and Its Spatio-Temporal Variations in Temperate Grassland, Northern China

(2014) Yunxiang Jin et al.   Remote Sensing

Assessing Land Degradation and Desertification Using Vegetation Index Data: Current Frameworks and Future Directions

(2014) Thomas Higginbottom et al.   Remote Sensing

Precipitation amount, seasonality and frequency regulate carbon cycling of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia, China: A modeling analysis

(2013) Shushi Peng et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Estimating above-ground net primary productivity of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of the Central Great Plains using AVHRR NDVI

(2013) Nan An et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing

(2013) Jian Liu et al.   NATURE

Green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011

(2013) Geli Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intra-seasonal precipitation amount and pattern differentially affect primary production of two dominant species of Inner Mongolia grassland

(2012) Yanshu Liu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial variations in aboveground net primary productivity along a climate gradient in Eurasian temperate grassland: effects of mean annual precipitation and its seasonal distribution

(2012) Qun Guo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term trends of precipitable water and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau derived from satellite and surface measurements

(2012) Dingling Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Causes for the unimodal pattern of biomass and productivity in alpine grasslands along a large altitudinal gradient in semi-arid regions

(2012) Zhong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Timing of climate variability and grassland productivity

(2012) J. M. Craine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Vegetation distribution on Tibetan Plateau under climate change scenario

(2011) Dongsheng Zhao et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Size of Precipitation Pulses Controls Nitrogen Transformation and Losses in an Arid Patagonian Ecosystem

(2010) Laura Yahdjian et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Rain use efficiency across a precipitation gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) Yuanhe Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Precipitation-use efficiency along a 4500-km grassland transect

(2010) Hu Zhongmin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate change alters interannual variation of grassland aboveground productivity: evidence from a 22-year measurement series in the Inner Mongolian grassland

(2010) Wenhong Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Above- and belowground biomass allocation in Tibetan grasslands

(2009) Yuanhe Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in grassland ecosystem function due to extreme rainfall events: implications for responses to climate change

(2008) PHILIP A. FAY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Precipitation timing and magnitude differentially affect aboveground annual net primary productivity in three perennial species in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2008) Traesha R. Robertson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

(2008) Jana L. Heisler-White et al.   OECOLOGIA