Xu Lian

TL;DR: This article found that observed northern extratropical land greening is consistent with anthropogenic forcings, where greenhouse gases play a dominant role, but not with simulations that include only natural forcings and internal climate variability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a coupled land-climate model to quantify the potential impact of the satellite-observed Earth greening over the past 30 years on the terrestrial water cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of climate extremes (e.g. drought, extreme precipitation, extreme hot and extreme cold) on terrestrial ecosystems and their mechanisms are systematically reviewed, and the authors strongly recommend that future studies should place more attention on the long-term impacts and on the driving mechanisms at different time scales.

TL;DR: This paper found that observed northern extratropical land greening is consistent with anthropogenic forcings, where greenhouse gases play a dominant role, but not with simulations that include only natural forcings and internal climate variability.

TL;DR: A study of global tree ring data records over the last century reveals a temporal trade-off between resistance and resilience to drought for gymnosperms, indicating that previous model simulations assuming invariant resistance may have underestimated the impacts of drought on gymnosperm-dominated forests under future climate change.