Xiangming Xiao

TL;DR: In this paper, a cropland distribution model based on climate, soil and topography is applied to estimate the area and spatial distribution of global potential croplands under contemporary climate and to assess the effect of transient climate changes projected by the MIT Integrated Global System Model for assessment of climate change.

TL;DR: Zhu et al. as mentioned in this paper used two gross primary production (GPP) products and concurrent climate data to investigate the GPP anomalies and their underlying causes and found that both GPP products show an enhanced GPP in 2015 for the tropical terrestrial ecosystem as a whole relative to the multi-year mean of 2001-2015, and this enhancement is the net result of GPP increase in tropical forests and decrease in non-forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a multi-criteria optimal spatial planning for rural ecosystems of the resettlement area in the Hubei Province of China to improve socio-economic conditions, and the promotion of the development of farmland ecosystems and natural forest ecosystems.

TL;DR: It is shown here that their analysis of a 24-year field data set (1980–2003) is called into question by inconsistencies in sampling location and numbers after 1998; the authors' findings are further undermined because they do not distinguish temporal variation from spatial heterogeneity in analysing compensatory effects among species or PFGs.

TL;DR: A combination of isotope analysis and satellite-tracking is recommended as the best means of generating aggregate movement data for informing disease models and calling into question the relevance of the rainfall isotope map for Asia for linking feather isotopes to molting locations.