Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

S Piao, X Wang, T Park, C Chen, XU Lian… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite
technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together …

Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

AD Richardson, TF Keenan, M Migliavacca… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology is highly sensitive to climate change. Phenology also controls many
feedbacks of vegetation to the climate system by influencing the seasonality of albedo …

An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

S Gao, E Liang, R Liu, F Babst, JJ Camarero… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Climatic warming alters the onset, duration and cessation of the vegetative season. While
previous studies have shown a tight link between thermal conditions and leaf phenology …

[HTML][HTML] The numbers of fungi: Contributions from traditional taxonomic studies and challenges of metabarcoding

C Phukhamsakda, RH Nilsson, CS Bhunjun… - Fungal diversity, 2022 - Springer
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery

AD Richardson, K Hufkens, T Milliman, DM Aubrecht… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
Vegetation phenology controls the seasonality of many ecosystem processes, as well as
numerous biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Phenology is also highly sensitive to climate …

[HTML][HTML] Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost

Q Liu, S Piao, IA Janssens, Y Fu, S Peng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
While climate warming reduces the occurrence of frost events, the warming-induced
lengthening of the growing season of plants in the Northern Hemisphere may actually …

Land surface phenology as indicator of global terrestrial ecosystem dynamics: A systematic review

JA Caparros-Santiago, V Rodriguez-Galiano… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology is considered an important biological indicator in understanding the
behaviour of ecosystems and how it responds to environmental cues. Changes in vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] The negative impact of increasing temperatures on rice yields in southern China

Y Song, C Wang, HW Linderholm, Y Fu, W Cai… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
China is the main producer and consumer of rice in the world, and rice is a major staple food
grain for more than half of the world's population. Reduced rice yields caused by climate …

Phenology shifts at start vs. end of growing season in temperate vegetation over the Northern Hemisphere for the period 1982–2008

SJ Jeong, CHOI HO, HJU GIM… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in vegetative growing seasons are dominant indicators of the dynamic
response of ecosystems to climate change. Therefore, knowledge of growing seasons over …

Mismatches between ecosystem services supply and demand in urban areas: A quantitative assessment in five European cities

F Baró, D Haase, E Gómez-Baggethun… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Assessing mismatches between ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand can provide
relevant insights for enhancing human well-being in urban areas. This paper provides a …