Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications

Y Pei, J Dong, Y Zhang, W Yuan, R Doughty… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light use efficiency (LUE) models have been widely used to estimate terrestrial gross
primary production (GPP) at local, regional, and global scales, which is vital for …

Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future

ZL Li, P Leng, C Zhou, KS Chen, FC Zhou… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) is an essential parameter for understanding the interactions and
feedbacks between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface through energy and water …

Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

J Jägermeyr, C Müller, AC Ruane, J Elliott, J Balkovic… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Potential climate-related impacts on future crop yield are a major societal concern. Previous
projections of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project's Global …

[HTML][HTML] SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty

L Poggio, LM De Sousa, NH Batjes, GBM Heuvelink… - Soil, 2021 - soil.copernicus.org
SoilGrids produces maps of soil properties for the entire globe at medium spatial resolution
(250 m cell size) using state-of-the-art machine learning methods to generate the necessary …

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

C Terrer, RP Phillips, BA Hungate, J Rosende… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems remove about 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by
human activities each year, yet the persistence of this carbon sink depends partly on how …

Tree functional traits, forest biomass, and tree species diversity interact with site properties to drive forest soil carbon

L Augusto, A Boča - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and
environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest …

Genome sequencing reveals evidence of adaptive variation in the genus Zea

L Chen, J Luo, M Jin, N Yang, X Liu, Y Peng, W Li… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Maize is a globally valuable commodity and one of the most extensively studied genetic
model organisms. However, we know surprisingly little about the extent and potential utility …

The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

M Jiang, BE Medlyn, JE Drake, RA Duursma… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment (eCO2) can enhance plant carbon uptake and
growth,,,–, thereby providing an important negative feedback to climate change by slowing …

Nitrogen addition promotes terrestrial plants to allocate more biomass to aboveground organs: A global meta‐analysis

H Feng, J Guo, C Peng, D Kneeshaw… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A significant increase in reactive nitrogen (N) added to terrestrial ecosystems through
agricultural fertilization or atmospheric deposition is considered to be one of the most …

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

EW Slessarev, Y Lin, NL Bingham, JE Johnson, Y Dai… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes
substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, soil pH is not an …