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    Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    The effects of climate extremes such as droughts or storms on the carbon cycle of ecosystems are investigated; such extremes can decrease regional carbon stocks.

    Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Philippe Ciais, Dorothea Frank in Nature (2013)

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    Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

    Correlations between the maximum and minimum daily temperatures and a vegetation index in the Northern Hemisphere suggest that asymmetric diurnal warming (faster warming of the land surface during the night th...

    Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Ranga B. Myneni, An** Chen in Nature (2013)

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    Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

    The availability of carbon from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and of nitrogen from various human-induced inputs to ecosystems is continuously increasing; however, these increases are not paralleled ...

    Josep Peñuelas, Benjamin Poulter, Jordi Sardans, Philippe Ciais in Nature Communications (2013)

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    Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

    Recent warming significantly advanced leaf onset in the northern hemisphere. This signal cannot be accurately reproduced by current models parameterized by daily mean temperature (Tmean). Here using in situ obser...

    Shilong Piao, Jianguang Tan, An** Chen, Yongshuo H. Fu in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Are variations in heterotrophic soil respiration related to changes in substrate availability and microbial biomass carbon in the subtropical forests?

    Soil temperature and moisture are widely-recognized controlling factors on heterotrophic soil respiration (Rh), although they often explain only a portion of Rh variability. How other soil physicochemical and mic...

    Hui Wei, **aomei Chen, Guoliang **ao, Bertrand Guenet, Sara Vicca in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Remotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production

    Severe droughts strongly impact photosynthesis (GPP), and satellite imagery has yet to demonstrate its ability to detect drought effects. Especially changes in vegetation functioning when vegetation state rema...

    Sara Vicca, Manuela Balzarolo, Iolanda Filella, André Granier in Scientific Reports (2016)

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

    Terrestrial ecosystems remove about 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activities each year1, yet the persistence of this carbon sink depends partly on how plant biomass and soil organic car...

    C. Terrer, R. P. Phillips, B. A. Hungate, J. Rosende, J. Pett-Ridge, M. E. Craig in Nature (2021)

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    Diagnosing destabilization risk in global land carbon sinks

    Global net land carbon uptake or net biome production (NBP) has increased during recent decades1. Whether its temporal variability and autocorrelation have changed during this period, however, remains elusive, ev...

    Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Josep Peñuelas, Frederic Chevallier, Philippe Ciais in Nature (2023)