Biological and bioinspired thermal energy regulation and utilization

S An, B Shi, M Jiang, B Fu, C Song, P Tao… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The regulation and utilization of thermal energy is increasingly important in modern society
due to the growing demand for heating and cooling in applications ranging from buildings, to …

Urban evapotranspiration and its effects on water budget and energy balance: Review and perspectives

GY Qiu, C Yan, Y Liu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the most important components of water and energy
balance, and carbon cycle in urbans. It is also a natural process that is powerful enough to …

Effects of soil moisture and vapor pressure deficit on canopy transpiration for two coniferous forests in the Loess Plateau of China

S Chen, W Wei, B Tong, L Chen - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (VWC) and atmospheric dryness (vapor pressure deficit, VPD) have an
increasing impact on tree transpiration and productivity with climate change. However, the …

High-resolution spatio-temporal characteristics of urban evapotranspiration measured by unmanned aerial vehicle and infrared remote sensing

L Qin, C Yan, L Yu, M Chai, B Wang, M Hayat… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET) cooling of urban spaces is an effective and economical way to
improve the urban thermal environment. However, the distribution of urban ET rate is …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiated responses of daytime and nighttime sap flow to soil water deficit in a larch plantation in Northwest China

Z Liu, S Yu, L Xu, Y Wang, P Yu, Y Chao - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Tree transpiration contributes to the forest water budget and its environmental responses
differ between daytime and nighttime. Elucidating these divergent responses separately …

Transpiration and water use sources of poplar (populus× xiaozhuanica) plantations with 7-years vs. 20-years old in a semiarid sandy region of northeast China

L Song, J Zhu, X Liu, J Zhang, X Zheng, Y Sun… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Determination of transpiration and water use sources of trees in arid and semiarid areas is
crucial for forest management under climate change scenes. Here, seasonal variations in …

The Seasonal Variability and Environmental Factors Influencing the Transpiration of Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) Saplings

CG Ochoa, MAB Abdallah - Hydrology, 2023 - mdpi.com
There is scarce information regarding the interactions between young tree water uptake and
the environment in water-limited ecosystems. This study was conducted in a semiarid …

Spatial characteristics of urban evapotranspiration effects on the thermal environment

X Gan, Y Zhang, Z Wu, Y Wang, H Han… - Journal of Water and …, 2023 - iwaponline.com
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important process of the regional hydrothermal cycle.
However, it is unclear how the mitigation of urban ET in urban thermal environments occurs …

The quantity-quality and gain-loss conversion pattern of green vegetation during urbanization reveals the importance of protecting natural forest ecosystems

G Yang, Y Xiao, L Da, Z Yu - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Contexts To quantify ecosystem service (ES) changes caused by the dynamic of green
vegetation (GV) during rapid urbanization, it is necessary to fully understand the …

Assessing the variations of evapotranspiration and its environmental controls over a subalpine wetland valley in China

J Xiang, M Hayat, GY Qiu, W Xiao, X Xu, P Mao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dynamics in long-term evapotranspiration (ET) and its controlling variables are essential for
understanding how a high-altitude wetlands ecosystem responds to climate change. The …