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Open AccessA global dataset of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation for 1982–2022
The fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) is an essential biophysical parameter that characterizes the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the extensive utilizat...
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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
Vegetation greening has been suggested to be a dominant trend over recent decades, but severe pulses of tree mortality in forests after droughts and heatwaves have also been extensively reported. These observa...
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Vegetation greenness in 2023
Global greening continued into 2023, reaching near-record values that were dominated by regional enhancement in the mid-western USA, Europe, northern Australia and parts of equatorial Africa. In contrast, clim...
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Open AccessAutumn canopy senescence has slowed down with global warming since the 1980s in the Northern Hemisphere
Climate change strongly impact vegetation phenology, with considerable potential to alter land-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange and terrestrial carbon cycle. In contrast to well-studied spring leaf-out, the ...
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Publisher Correction: Seasonal peak photosynthesis is hindered by late canopy development in northern ecosystems
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Seasonal peak photosynthesis is hindered by late canopy development in northern ecosystems
The seasonal dynamics of the vegetation canopy strongly regulate the surface energy balance and terrestrial carbon fluxes, providing feedbacks to climate change. Whether the seasonal timing of maximum canopy s...
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Open AccessRegional asymmetry in the response of global vegetation growth to springtime compound climate events
Compound climate events can strongly impact vegetation productivity, yet the direct and lagged vegetation productivity responses to seasonal compound warm-dry and cold-dry events remain unclear. Here we use ob...
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Open AccessSeasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth
The state of ecosystems is influenced strongly by their past, and describing this carryover effect is important to accurately forecast their future behaviors. However, the strength and persistence of this carr...
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Open AccessNew generation geostationary satellite observations support seasonality in greenness of the Amazon evergreen forests
Assessing the seasonal patterns of the Amazon rainforests has been difficult because of the paucity of ground observations and persistent cloud cover over these forests obscuring optical remote sensing observa...
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Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening
Vegetation greenness has been increasing globally since at least 1981, when satellite technology enabled large-scale vegetation monitoring. The greening phenomenon, together with warming, sea-level rise and se...
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Legacies of Historical Exploitation of Natural Resources Are More Important Than Summer Warming for Recent Biomass Increases in a Boreal–Arctic Transition Region
Eurasian forest cover at high northern latitudes (> 67°N) has increased in recent decades due to stimulatory effects of global warming, but other factors may be important. The objective of this study is to com...
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Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics
Changes in terrestrial tropical carbon stocks have an important role in the global carbon budget. However, current observational tools do not allow accurate and large-scale monitoring of the spatial distributi...
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Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes
The global distribution of the optimum air temperature for ecosystem-level gross primary productivity ( $${\it{T}}_{{\mathrm{opt}}}^{{\...
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Open AccessEarth system models underestimate carbon fixation by plants in the high latitudes
Most Earth system models agree that land will continue to store carbon due to the physiological effects of rising CO2 concentration and climatic changes favoring plant growth in temperature-limited regions. But t...
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Publisher Correction: Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming
In the version of this Letter originally published, the author Andrew T. Black was mistakenly denoted as being affiliated with the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research. His affilia...
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Author Correction: Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming
In the version of this Letter originally published, there were errors in Fig. 1a. The sites denoted purple were described in the legend as ‘Pday>0.05 & Pnight>0.05’, but should have been labelled ‘Pday<0.05 & Pni...
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China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Satellite data show increasing leaf area of vegetation due to direct factors (human land-use management) and indirect factors (such as climate change, CO2 fertilization, nitrogen deposition and recovery from natu...
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Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming
Plant phenology is a sensitive indicator of climate change1–4 and plays an important role in regulating carbon uptake by plants5–7. Previous studies have focused on spring leaf-out by daytime temperature and the ...
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Lower land-use emissions responsible for increased net land carbon sink during the slow warming period
The terrestrial carbon sink accelerated during 1998–2012, concurrently with the slow warming period, but the mechanisms behind this acceleration are unclear. Here we analyse recent changes in the net land carb...
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Coupling of ecosystem-scale plant water storage and leaf phenology observed by satellite
Plant water storage is fundamental to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems by participating in plant metabolism, nutrient and sugar transport, and maintenance of the integrity of the hydraulic system of t...
