Jingfeng Xiao

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize more than 180 site years of eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide flux made at forest chronosequences in North America and show that carbon loss from all ecosystems following a stand-replacing disturbance, becoming a carbon sink by 20 years for all ecosystems and by 10 years for most.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the representation of phenology, and the associated seasonality of ecosystem-scale CO2 exchange, in 14 models participating in the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis.

TL;DR: A review of the status and major challenges in representing the impacts of disturbances in modeling the carbon dynamics across North America revealed some major advances and challenges as mentioned in this paper, and significant advances have been made in representation, scaling, and characterization of disturbances that should be included in regional modeling efforts.

TL;DR: An exponentially increasing trend of SUHI research since 2005, with clear preferences for geographic areas, time of day, seasons, research foci, and platforms/sensors is found, and key potential directions and opportunities for future efforts are proposed.

TL;DR: MacroSystems ecology is the study of diverse ecological phenomena at the scale of regions to continents and their interactions with phenomena at other scales as mentioned in this paper, which addresses ecological questions and environmental problems at these broad scales.