Satellite Observations of the Contrasting Response of Trees and Grasses to Variations in Water Availability

The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance

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Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

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Effects of climate warming on photosynthesis in boreal tree species depend on soil moisture

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Contrasting and interacting changes in simulated spring and summer carbon cycle extremes in European ecosystems

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Global distribution of groundwater-vegetation spatial covariation

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The climate of the European Alps: Shift of very high resolution Köppen-Geiger climate zones 1800–2100

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Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

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Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

(2017) Julia K. Green et al.   Nature Geoscience

Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest

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Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

(2017) Junjie Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

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The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

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Global Analysis of Bioclimatic Controls on Ecosystem Productivity Using Satellite Observations of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence

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Canopy near-infrared reflectance and terrestrial photosynthesis

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Explaining inter-annual variability of gross primary productivity from plant phenology and physiology

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Seasonal and interannual changes in vegetation activity of tropical forests in Southeast Asia

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Event coincidence analysis for quantifying statistical interrelationships between event time series

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Canopy and physiological controls of GPP during drought and heat wave

(2016) Yao Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

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Remotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production

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Drought dominates the interannual variability in global terrestrial net primary production by controlling semi-arid ecosystems

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A submonthly database for detecting changes in vegetation-atmosphere coupling

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Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

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A model quantifying global vegetation resistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation cover

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Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

(2015) Kaiyu Guan et al.   Nature Geoscience

The 2010 Russian drought impact on satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from modeling and comparisons with parameters derived from satellite reflectances

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The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

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Observations of stem water storage in trees of opposing hydraulic strategies

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An improved approach for remotely sensing water stress impacts on forest C uptake

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Linking chlorophyll a fluorescence to photosynthesis for remote sensing applications: mechanisms and challenges

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Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

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(2014) Douglas C. Morton et al.   NATURE

Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

(2014) Shilong Piao et al.   Nature Communications

On the Response of European Vegetation Phenology to Hydroclimatic Anomalies

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Detection and attribution of large spatiotemporal extreme events in Earth observation data

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Global patterns of NDVI-indicated vegetation extremes and their sensitivity to climate extremes

(2013) Guo Liu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Earlier springs decrease peak summer productivity in North American boreal forests

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Geostationary Enhanced Temporal Interpolation for CERES Flux Products

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Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

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Spatio-temporal patterns of chlorophyll fluorescence and physiological and structural indices acquired from hyperspectral imagery as compared with carbon fluxes measured with eddy covariance

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High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

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Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening

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Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America

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Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

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Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

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New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity

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An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

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The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

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A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada's boreal forests

(2011) Changhui Peng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

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Detecting the critical periods that underpin interannual fluctuations in the carbon balance of European forests

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Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

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Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective

(2010) Gregory P. Asner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon

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Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

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Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

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Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Review of methods and applications

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Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

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