Grassland gross carbon dioxide uptake based on an improved model tree ensemble approach considering human interventions: global estimation and covariation with climate

Ecosystem response more than climate variability drives the inter-annual variability of carbon fluxes in three Chinese grasslands

(2016) Tao Zhang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Dryland vegetation response to wet episode, not inherent shift in sensitivity to rainfall, behind Australia's role in 2011 global carbon sink anomaly

(2016) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

(2016) Joel A. Biederman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Sebastian Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake

(2016) Trevor F Keenan et al.   Nature Communications

More extreme precipitation in the world’s dry and wet regions

(2016) Markus G. Donat et al.   Nature Climate Change

Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems

(2016) Yuting Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Contrasting responses of gross primary productivity to precipitation events in a water-limited and a temperature-limited grassland ecosystem

(2015) Qun Guo et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Seasonal variations in phenology and productivity of a tropical dry deciduous forest from MODIS and Hyperion

(2015) Binal Christian et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of net primary production and their climate controls in China from 1982 to 2010

(2015) Wei Liang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

An analytical model for relating global terrestrial carbon assimilation with climate and surface conditions using a rate limitation framework

(2015) Yuting Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

How did ocean warming affect Australian rainfall extremes during the 2010/2011 La Niña event?

(2015) Caroline C. Ummenhofer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Effect of climate change, CO2 trends, nitrogen addition, and land-cover and management intensity changes on the carbon balance of European grasslands

(2015) Jinfeng Chang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The greenhouse gas balance of European grasslands

(2015) Jinfeng Chang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climatic controls of aboveground net primary production in semi-arid grasslands along a latitudinal gradient portend low sensitivity to warming

(2015) Whitney Mowll et al.   OECOLOGIA

On regreening and degradation in Sahelian watersheds

(2015) Armel T. Kaptué et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

(2015) Alessandro Anav et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

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

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization

(2015) W. Kolby Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Modeled Changes in Potential Grassland Productivity and in Grass-Fed Ruminant Livestock Density in Europe over 1961–2010

(2015) Jinfeng Chang et al.   PLoS One

An improved indicator of simulated grassland production based on MODIS NDVI and GPP data: A case study in the Sichuan province, China

(2014) Xinyu Fu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Toward the Use of the MODIS ET Product to Estimate Terrestrial GPP for Nonforest Ecosystems

(2014) Yuting Yang et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

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

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

(2014) P. Friedlingstein et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2014) Shilong Piao et al.   Nature Communications

Impact of CO2fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments

(2013) Randall J. Donohue et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2trends

(2013) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

Plant Functional Group Composition Modifies the Effects of Precipitation Change on Grassland Ecosystem Function

(2013) Ellen L. Fry et al.   PLoS One

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

(2013) M. Herrero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using satellite based soil moisture to quantify the water driven variability in NDVI: A case study over mainland Australia

(2013) T. Chen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011

(2013) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Remote Sensing

Unexpected patterns of sensitivity to drought in three semi-arid grasslands

(2012) Karie Cherwin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

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

Climatic controls and ecosystem responses drive the inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem exchange of an alpine meadow

(2011) Barbara Marcolla et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

(2011) Martin Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Patterns of NPP, GPP, respiration, and NEP during boreal forest succession

(2010) M. L. GOULDEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Recent trends in changes of vegetation over East Asia coupled with temperature and rainfall variations

(2010) Hye-Sook Park et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Remote estimation of gross primary production in wheat using chlorophyll-related vegetation indices

(2009) Chaoyang Wu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Climate-related trends in Australian vegetation cover as inferred from satellite observations, 1981-2006

(2009) RANDALL J. DONOHUE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The boundless carbon cycle

(2009) Tom J. Battin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

(2009) Corinne Le Quéré et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

The sensitivity of annual grassland carbon cycling to the quantity and timing of rainfall

(2008) WENDY W. CHOU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem CO2exchange of a temperate mountain grassland: Effects of weather and management

(2008) Georg Wohlfahrt et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

(2008) Shilong Piao et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks

(2008) Martin Heimann et al.   NATURE