Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

S Ruehr, TF Keenan, C Williams, Y Zhou, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has been partially mitigated by an increasing net land carbon sink in the
terrestrial biosphere; understanding the processes that drive this sink is thus essential for …

Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, Y Wang, Z Li… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Decarbonizing the pulp and paper industry: A critical and systematic review of sociotechnical developments and policy options

DDF Del Rio, BK Sovacool, S Griffiths… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Paper has shaped society for centuries and is considered one of humanity's most important
inventions. However, pulp and paper products can be damaging to social and natural …

CO2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales

C Chen, WJ Riley, IC Prentice… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Global photosynthesis is increasing with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a
response known as the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE), but the key processes of CFE are not …

Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

X Tong, M Brandt, Y Yue, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed
forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal …

Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

JM Grünzweig, HJ De Boeck, A Rey… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change have been explored in many regions
worldwide. While continued drying and warming may alter process rates and deteriorate the …

No trends in spring and autumn phenology during the global warming hiatus

X Wang, J **ao, X Li, G Cheng, M Ma, G Zhu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Phenology plays a fundamental role in regulating photosynthesis, evapotranspiration, and
surface energy fluxes and is sensitive to climate change. The global mean surface air …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent changes in vegetation greenness, productivity, and rainfall use efficiency are characteristic of ecological restoration towards high-quality …

Y Yu, T Hua, L Chen, Z Zhang, P Pereira - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Globally, vegetation has been changing dramatically. The vegetation–water dynamic is key
to understanding ecosystem structure and functioning in water-limited ecosystems …

A shift in the dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit and soil moisture on vegetation greening in China

Y Cheng, L Liu, L Cheng, K Fa, X Liu, Z Huo… - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Although evidence of ecosystem productivity to vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and soil
moisture (SM) is abundant, their respective effects remain unclear due to tightly land …