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Journal Article The New phytologist · May 2026 To survive climate change, forest trees will have to shift seed production poleward. However, warming will not stimulate tree fecundity in the north if it is limited by other habitat variables. We evaluated the responses of tree fecundity to climate change ... Full text Cite

Ecosystem technology (ecotech): Harnessing natural processes to address global challenges.

Journal Article Science advances · May 2026 Over the past 80 years, biotechnology has advanced agriculture, health care, and economic development by harnessing biological processes from the organism inward, i.e., from the organ system to the molecular scale. Today's global challenges, including biod ... Full text Cite

Global Spring–Autumn Phenology Coupling Inferred from Satellite Observations and Reanalysis-Based Climate Limitations

Journal Article Remote Sensing · April 1, 2026 Spring and autumn phenology jointly regulate terrestrial carbon, water, and energy exchanges, yet the mechanisms linking seasonal transitions remain debated under increasing hydroclimatic stress. Here, we integrate satellite-derived phenology with reanalys ... Full text Cite

Continental Contrasts in Climate Extremes That Control Tree Fecundity.

Journal Article Global change biology · February 2026 In 2023, more than half of olive harvests (Olea europaea) across Spain, Greece, and Türkiye were lost to drought. The same year late freeze destroyed 90% of the peach crop (Prunus persica) on the Georgia Piedmont and the apple crop (Malus domestica) in cen ... Full text Cite

Phenological Responses to Canopy Structure Depend on Vegetation Biomes Across the United States.

Journal Article Global change biology · February 2026 Land surface phenology is a key indicator of ecosystem responses to global change, but most studies largely emphasized temporal trends, leaving spatial patterns, particularly those shaped by canopy structure, underresolved. As disturbances from forest dieb ... Full text Cite

Satellite mapping of every building's function in urban China reveals deep built environment disparities.

Journal Article Nature communications · February 2026 Decades of rapid urbanization have reshaped China's cities, yet fine-scale built environment disparities remain unclear due to scarce building-level data. Here, we present SinoBF-1, a national building functional map of China that delineates 110 million bu ... Full text Cite

Earth's record-high greenness and its attributions in 2020

Journal Article Remote Sensing of Environment · January 1, 2025 Terrestrial vegetation is a crucial component of Earth's biosphere, regulating global carbon and water cycles and contributing to human welfare. Despite an overall greening trend, terrestrial vegetation exhibits a significant inter-annual variability. The ... Full text Cite

Recommendations for developing, documenting, and distributing data products derived from NEON data

Journal Article Ecosphere · January 1, 2025 The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides over 180 distinct data products from 81 sites (47 terrestrial and 34 freshwater aquatic sites) within the United States and Puerto Rico. These data products include both field and remote sensing d ... Full text Cite

Landslide susceptibility mapping using physics-guided machine learning: a case study of a debris flow event in Colorado Front Range

Journal Article Acta Geotechnica · October 1, 2024 Landslides are common geohazards worldwide, resulting in significant losses to economies and human lives. Data-driven approaches, especially machine learning (ML) models, have been widely used recently for landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) by extracti ... Full text Cite

The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates.

Journal Article Ecology letters · September 2024 The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates of tr ... Full text Cite

A Novel Framework for Spatiotemporal Susceptibility Prediction of Rainfall-Induced Landslides: A Case Study in Western Pennsylvania

Journal Article Remote Sensing · September 1, 2024 Landslide susceptibility measures the probability of landslides occurring under certain geo-environmental conditions and is essential in landslide hazard assessment. Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) using data-driven methods applies statistical model ... Full text Cite

Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States.

Journal Article Ecology · August 2024 Global forests are increasingly lost to climate change, disturbance, and human management. Evaluating forests' capacities to regenerate and colonize new habitats has to start with the seed production of individual trees and how it depends on nutrient acces ... Full text Cite

Tree mortality during long-term droughts is lower in structurally complex forest stands.

Journal Article Nature communications · November 2023 Increasing drought frequency and severity in a warming climate threaten forest ecosystems with widespread tree deaths. Canopy structure is important in regulating tree mortality during drought, but how it functions remains controversial. Here, we show that ... Full text Cite

How to measure mast seeding?

Journal Article The New phytologist · August 2023 The periodic production of large seed crops, or masting, is a widespread phenomenon in perennial plants. This behavior can enhance the reproductive efficiency of plants, leading to increased fitness, and produce ripple effects on food webs. While variabili ... Full text Cite

Urban Treetop Detection and Tree-Height Estimation from Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle Images

Journal Article Remote Sensing · August 1, 2023 Individual tree detection for urban forests in subtropical environments remains a great challenge due to the various types of forest structures, high canopy closures, and the mixture of evergreen and deciduous broadleaved trees. Existing treetop detection ... Full text Cite

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients.

Journal Article Nature plants · July 2023 The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balance bet ... Full text Cite

Habitat–trait interactions that control response to climate change: North American ground beetles (Carabidae)

Journal Article Global Ecology and Biogeography · June 1, 2023 Aim: As one of the most diverse and economically important families on Earth, ground beetles (Carabidae) are viewed as a key barometer of climate change. Recent meta-analyses provide equivocal evidence on abundance changes of terrestrial insects. Generaliz ... Full text Cite

Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees

Journal Article Global Ecology and Biogeography · May 1, 2023 Aim: Our understanding of the mechanisms that maintain forest diversity under changing climate can benefit from knowledge about traits that are closely linked to fitness. We tested whether the link between traits and seed number and seed size is consistent ... Full text Cite

Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China

Journal Article Landscape Ecology · April 1, 2023 Context: Urbanization has profoundly changed urban landscape patterns and morphologies. Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of these changes and their driving forces is vital to decision making for urban planning and sustainable urban development. O ... Full text Cite

Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients.

Journal Article Ecology letters · June 2022 Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows ... Full text Cite

Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery.

Journal Article Nature communications · May 2022 The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and harvest. A synthesis of fecundity data from 714 species worl ... Full text Cite

Niche Shifts From Trees to Fecundity to Recruitment That Determine Species Response to Climate Change

Journal Article Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · December 23, 2021 Anticipating the next generation of forests requires understanding of recruitment responses to habitat change. Tree distribution and abundance depend not only on climate, but also on habitat variables, such as soils and drainage, and on competition beneath ... Full text Cite

Disaggregating climatic and anthropogenic influences on vegetation changes in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China

Journal Article Science of the Total Environment · September 10, 2021 The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region of China is a typical area where both population and economy have been increasing rapidly in recent decades. The rapid economic development and population increase also bring severe environmental stresses. To better u ... Full text Cite

Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · August 2021 Despite its importance for forest regeneration, food webs, and human economies, changes in tree fecundity with tree size and age remain largely unknown. The allometric increase with tree diameter assumed in ecological models would substantially overestimat ... Full text Cite

Deriving annual double-season cropland phenology using landsat imagery

Journal Article Remote Sensing · October 2, 2020 Cropland phenology provides key information in managing agricultural practices and modelling crop yield. However, most of the existing phenological products have coarse spatial resolution ranging from 250 to 8000 m, which is not sufficient to capture the c ... Full text Cite

Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau.

Journal Article Ecosystem services · October 2020 China's Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP) is one of the world's largest Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs. Its socioeconomic-ecological effects are of great interest to both scholars and policy-makers. However, little is known ab ... Full text Cite

Understanding the continuous phenological development at daily time step with a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model: impacts of climate change and extreme weather events

Journal Article Remote Sensing of Environment · September 15, 2020 The impacts of climate change and extreme weather events (e.g. frost-, heat-, drought-, and heavy rainfall events) on the continuous phenological development over the entire seasonal cycle remained poorly understood. Previous studies mainly focused on mode ... Full text Cite

Urbanization and climate change jointly shift land surface phenology in the northern mid-latitude large cities

Journal Article Remote Sensing of Environment · January 1, 2020 Land surface phenology (LSP) has been widely used as the “footprint” of urbanization and global climate change. Shifts of LSP have cascading effects on food production, carbon sequestration, water consumption, biodiversity, and public health. Previous stud ... Full text Cite

Impacts of urbanization on vegetation phenology over the past three decades in Shanghai, China

Journal Article Remote Sensing · September 1, 2017 Vegetation phenology manifests the rhythm of annual plant life activities. It has been extensively studied in natural ecosystems. However, major knowledge gaps still exist in understanding the impacts of urbanization on vegetation phenology. This study add ... Full text Cite