Monitoring nature's calendar from space: Emerging topics in land surface phenology and associated opportunities for science applications

X Ma, X Zhu, Q Xie, J Jin, Y Zhou, Y Luo… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation phenology has been viewed as the nature's calendar and an integrative indicator
of plant‐climate interactions. The correct representation of vegetation phenology is important …

Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit

F Li, J Xiao, J Chen, A Ballantyne, K Jin, B Li, M Abraha… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The ratio of carbon assimilation to water evapotranspiration (ET) of an ecosystem, referred to
as ecosystem water use efficiency (WUEeco), is widely expected to increase because of the …

The Ecosystem as Super-Organ/ism, Revisited: Scaling Hydraulics to Forests under Climate Change

JD Wood, M Detto, M Browne, NJB Kraft… - Integrative and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Classic debates in community ecology focused on the complexities of considering an
ecosystem as a super-organ or organism. New consideration of such perspectives could …

Components explain, but do eddy fluxes constrain? Carbon budget of a nitrogen‐fertilized boreal Scots pine forest

JD Marshall, L Tarvainen, P Zhao, H Lim… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen (N) fertilization increases biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation in
boreal pine forests, but the underlying mechanisms remain uncertain. At two Scots pine …

Nutritional changes in trees during drought‐induced mortality: A comprehensive meta‐analysis and a field study

P He, J Sardans, X Wang, C Ma, L Man… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Both macronutrients and micronutrients are essential for tree growth and development
through participating in various ecophysiological processes. However, the impact of the …

Bias-blind and bias-aware assimilation of leaf area index into the Noah-MP land surface model over Europe

S Scherrer, G De Lannoy, Z Heyvaert… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Data assimilation (DA) of remotely sensed leaf area index (LAI) can help to improve land
surface model estimates of energy, water, and carbon variables. So far, most studies have …

Prediction of global water use efficiency and its response to vapor pressure deficit and soil moisture coupling in the 21st century

T Chen, L Peng, Y Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The response of vegetation water use efficiency (WUE) to soil or atmospheric moisture
conditions has been widely identified in the past decades, however, the relationships …

[HTML][HTML] UAS-based high resolution mapping of evapotranspiration in a Mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem

JE Simpson, FH Holman, H Nieto, TS El-Madany… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the impact of land use and land cover change on surface energy and water
budgets is increasingly important in the context of climate change research. Eddy …

[HTML][HTML] Detection and attribution of an anomaly in terrestrial photosynthesis in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdown

ACI Tang, CR Flechard, N Arriga, D Papale… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) uptake by plant photosynthesis, referred to as gross primary
production (GPP) at the ecosystem level, is sensitive to environmental factors, including …

Ideas and perspectives: Beyond model evaluation–combining experiments and models to advance terrestrial ecosystem science

S Caldararu, V Rolo, BD Stocker… - Biogeosciences …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Ecosystem manipulative experiments are one of the most powerful tools to understand
terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change because they measure real responses in …