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Liang Xu
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 38
Citations - 3196
Liang Xu is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Vegetation. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2361 citations. Previous affiliations of Liang Xu include University of California, Los Angeles & Boston University.
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Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011
Zaichun Zhu,Jian Bi,Yaozhong Pan,Sanmay Ganguly,Alessandro Anav,Liang Xu,Arindam Samanta,Shilong Piao,Ramakrishna R. Nemani,Ranga B. Myneni +9 more
TL;DR: Long-term global data sets of vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR) are critical to understanding vegetation photosynthesis and its role in climate change.
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Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands
Liang Xu,Ranga B. Myneni,F. S. Chapin,Terry V. Callaghan,Jorge E. Pinzon,Compton J. Tucker,Zaichun Zhu,Jian Bi,P. Ciais,Hans Tømmervik,Eugénie S. Euskirchen,Bruce C. Forbes,Shilong Piao,Bruce T. Anderson,Sanmay Ganguly,Ramakrishna R. Nemani,Scott J. Goetz,Pieter S. A. Beck,Andrew G. Bunn,Chunxiang Cao,Julienne Stroeve +20 more
TL;DR: Research now indicates that temperature and vegetation seasonality in northern ecosystems have diminished to an extent equivalent to a southerly shift of 4°– 7° in latitude, and may reach the equivalent of up to 20° over the twenty-first century.
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Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China
Shushi Peng,Anping Chen,Liang Xu,Chunxiang Cao,Jingyun Fang,Ranga B. Myneni,Jorge E. Pinzon,Compton J. Tucker,Shilong Piao +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the study period to 2010 and found that at the national scale the growing season (April-October) NDVI significantly increased by 0.0007/yr from 1982 to 2010, but the increasing trend in NDVI over the last decade decreased in comparison to that of the 1982-99 period.
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Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought
Liang Xu,Arindam Samanta,Marcos Heil Costa,Sanmay Ganguly,Ramakrishna R. Nemani,Ranga B. Myneni +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report widespread, severe and persistent declines in vegetation greenness, a proxy for photosynthetic carbon fixation, in the Amazon region during the 2010 drought based on analysis of satellite measurements.
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Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth
Susan C. Cook-Patton,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Sara M. Leavitt,David Gibbs,Nancy L. Harris,Kristine Lister,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Russell D. Briggs,Robin L. Chazdon,Robin L. Chazdon,Robin L. Chazdon,Thomas W. Crowther,Peter W. Ellis,Heather P. Griscom,Valentine Herrmann,Karen D. Holl,Richard A. Houghton,Cecilia Larrosa,Guy Lomax,Richard Lucas,Palle Madsen,Yadvinder Malhi,Alain Paquette,John D. Parker,Keryn I. Paul,Devin Routh,Stephen H. Roxburgh,Sassan Saatchi,Johan van den Hoogen,Wayne S. Walker,Charlotte E. Wheeler,Stephen A. Wood,Liang Xu,Bronson W. Griscom +34 more
TL;DR: A global, one-kilometre-resolution map of potential aboveground carbon accumulation rates for the first 30 years of natural forest regrowth is presented, indicating that default rates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be underestimated and maximum climate mitigation potential from natural forest Regrowth is 11 per cent lower than previously reported.