Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, M Estiarte… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming

J **a, J Chen, S Piao, P Ciais, Y Luo, S Wan - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Feedbacks between the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate change could affect many
ecosystem functions and services, such as food production, carbon sequestration and …

Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index

DTC Cox, IMD Maclean, AS Gardner… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of the changing climate on the biological world vary across latitudes, habitats
and spatial scales. By contrast, the time of day at which these changes are occurring has …

Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

S Peng, S Piao, P Ciais, RB Myneni, A Chen… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Temperature data over the past five decades show faster warming of the global land surface
during the night than during the day. This asymmetric warming is expected to affect carbon …

Three-dimensional dynamic characteristics of vegetation and its response to climatic factors in the Qilian Mountains

Y Ma, Q Guan, Y Sun, J Zhang, L Yang, E Yang, H Li… - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the trend of vegetation change and its reaction to climate variation is
important for revealing the mechanism of ecosystem behavior. However, current research …

Enhanced causal effect of ecosystem photosynthesis on respiration during heatwaves

J **, E Cui, Y Du, N Wei, J Zhou, J Wang, S Niu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Because of global warming, Earth's ecosystems have been experiencing more frequent and
severe heatwaves. Heatwaves are expected to tip terrestrial carbon sequestration by …

Solar park microclimate and vegetation management effects on grassland carbon cycling

A Armstrong, NJ Ostle, J Whitaker - Environmental Research …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Increasing energy demands and the drive towards low carbon (C) energy sources has
prompted a rapid increase in ground-mounted solar parks across the world. This represents …

Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China

S Peng, A Chen, L Xu, C Cao, J Fang… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Using satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data, several previous
studies have indicated that vegetation growth significantly increased in most areas of China …

Multiple global changes drive grassland productivity and stability: A meta‐analysis

J Su, Y Zhao, F Xu, Y Bai - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal stability of primary productivity is the key to stable provisioning of ecosystem
services to human beings. Yet, the effects of various global changes on grassland stability …

Responses of phenology to preseason drought and soil temperature for different land cover types on the Mongolian Plateau

B Li, R Wang, JM Chen - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Drought and heat caused major disturbance in nature by interfering with plant phenology,
and can also alter the vulnerability and resilience of terrestrial ecosystems. Existing research …