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  1. The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China (2010)
    Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature
  2. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management (2019)
    Chi Chen, Taejin Park et al. Nature Sustainability
  3. Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters (2013)
    Peter A. Raymond, Jens Hartmann et al. Nature
  4. Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits (2016)
    Xiaoming Feng, Bojie Fu et al. Nature Climate Change
  5. A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system (2005)
    Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  6. Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks (2007)
    Josep G. Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  7. Climate extremes and the carbon cycle (2013)
    Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn et al. Nature
  8. Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening (2019)
    Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  9. The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China (2009)
    Shilong Piao, Jingyun Fang et al. Nature
  10. Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks (2008)
    Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. Nature
  11. Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition (2010)
    Ivan A. Janssens, Wouter Dieleman et al. Nature Geoscience
  12. Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes (2015)
    Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu et al. Nature Geoscience
  13. Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle (2014)
    Benjamin Poulter, David Frank et al. Nature
  14. Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities (2011)
    Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao et al. Environmental Science & Technology
  15. Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) (2008)
    Stephen Sitch, Chris Huntingford et al. Global Change Biology
  16. Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming (2008)
    Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature
  17. Betting on negative emissions (2014)
    Sabine Fuss, Josep G. Canadell et al. Nature Climate Change
  18. Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding (2015)
    Yongshuo H. Fu, Hongfang Zhao et al. Nature
  19. Variations in satellite‐derived phenology in China's temperate vegetation (2006)
    Shilong Piao, Jingyun Fang et al. Global Change Biology
  20. The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C (2012)
    Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew et al. Nature Climate Change
  21. Growing season extension and its impact on terrestrial carbon cycle in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2 decades (2007)
    Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  22. Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming (2011)
    Charles D. Koven, Bruno Ringeval et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  23. Changes in satellite‐derived vegetation growth trend in temperate and boreal Eurasia from 1982 to 2006 (2011)
    Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang et al. Global Change Biology
  24. A Large Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial CO 2 Sink Indicated by the 13 C/ 12 C Ratio of Atmospheric CO 2 (1995)
    Philippe Ciais, Pieter P. Tans et al. Science
  25. Northern Hemisphere atmospheric stilling partly attributed to an increase in surface roughness (2010)
    Robert Vautard, Julien Cattiaux et al. Nature Geoscience
  26. High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015 (2020)
    Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang et al. Nature Sustainability
  27. Regional Changes in Carbon Dioxide Fluxes of Land and Oceans Since 1980 (2000)
    Philippe Bousquet, Philippe Peylin et al. Science
  28. Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods (2021)
    Xiaoming Xu, Shijie Shu et al. Nature Food
  29. Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation (2013)
    Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao et al. Nature
  30. Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves (2010)
    Adriaan J. Teuling, Sonia I. Seneviratne et al. Nature Geoscience
  31. Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review (2015)
    Alessandro Anav, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. Reviews of Geophysics
  32. Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020)
    William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman et al. Science
  33. Altitude and temperature dependence of change in the spring vegetation green-up date from 1982 to 2006 in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau (2011)
    Shilong Piao, Anping Chen et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  34. Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth (2015)
    Miaogen Shen, Shilong Piao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  35. High carbon dioxide uptake by subtropical forest ecosystems in the East Asian monsoon region (2014)
    Guirui Yu, Zhi Chen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  36. Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature (2015)
    Shilong Piao, Jianguang Tan et al. Nature Communications
  37. Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006 (2011)
    Xuhui Wang, Shilong Piao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  38. Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation (2016)
    Fengming Xi, Steven J. Davis et al. Nature Geoscience
  39. Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China (2018)
    Yue Li, Shilong Piao et al. Science Advances
  40. Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades (2017)
    Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Climate Change
  41. Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration (2020)
    Xiaowei Tong, Martin Brandt et al. Nature Communications
  42. Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability (2021)
    Vincent Humphrey, Alexis Berg et al. Nature
  43. Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance (2014)
    Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Sara Vicca et al. Nature Climate Change
  44. Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage (2018)
    Vincent Humphrey, Jakob Zscheischler et al. Nature
  45. Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation (2020)
    Xu Lian, Shilong Piao et al. Science Advances
  46. Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation–productivity relationships: implications for climate change (2016)
    Alan K. Knapp, Philippe Ciais et al. New Phytologist
  47. Global patterns of phosphatase activity in natural soils (2017)
    Olga Margalef, Jordi Sardans et al. Scientific Reports
  48. Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2021 (2022)
    Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  49. Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models (2017)
    Bernhard Schauberger, Sotirios V. Archontoulis et al. Nature Communications
  50. Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink (2019)
    J.M. Chen, Weimin Ju et al. Nature Communications
  51. A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production (2019)
    Zhenzhong Zeng, Alan D. Ziegler et al. Nature Climate Change
  52. Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere (2017)
    Xiuchen Wu, Hongyan Liu et al. Global Change Biology
  53. The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle (2022)
    Pierre Regnier, Laure Resplandy et al. Nature
  54. Accelerating the energy transition towards photovoltaic and wind in China (2023)
    Yijing Wang, Rong Wang et al. Nature
  55. Monitoring global carbon emissions in 2022 (2023)
    Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  56. Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives (2019)
    Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang et al. Global Change Biology
  57. Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost (2018)
    Qiang Liu, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Communications
  58. Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits (2022)
    Zheng Fu, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications
  59. A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China (2022)
    Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt et al. Nature Sustainability
  60. Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2021)
    Yuanwei Qin, Xiangming Xiao et al. Nature Climate Change
  61. Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980 (2022)
    Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications
  62. Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought (2020)
    Xiangyi Li, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution
  63. Global carbon emissions in 2023 (2024)
    Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  64. Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands (2021)
    Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications
  65. The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security (2022)
    Faqin Lin, Xuecao Li et al. Global Food Security
  66. Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters (2022)
    Thomas Lauvaux, Clément Giron et al. Science
  67. The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming (2020)
    Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov et al. Nature Sustainability
  68. Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020 (2022)
    Shushi Peng, Xin Lin et al. Nature
  69. Record-high CO 2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021 (2023)
    Bo Zheng, Philippe Ciais et al. Science
  70. Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields (2022)
    Peng Zhu, Jennifer Burney et al. Nature Climate Change
  71. Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems (2023)
    Yang Li, Wen Zhang et al. Nature Climate Change
  72. Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions (2022)
    Nan Lü, Hanqin Tian et al. Nature Climate Change
  73. Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades (2023)
    Jin Fu, Yiwei Jian et al. Nature Food
  74. Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade (2023)
    Hui Yang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Geoscience
  75. Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth (2023)
    Xianfeng Liu, Zheng Fu et al. Global Change Biology
  76. Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback (2023)
    Zhen Zhang, Benjamin Poulter et al. Nature Climate Change

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