Publications

Selected Publications Since 2020 (For the full list, please see Dr. Anping Chen’s Google Scholar page)
First- or senior-authored
  • Zhang, W., Luo, G., Hamdi, R., Ma, X., Termonia, P., De Maeyer, P., & Chen, A. (2025). Bridging the gap in carbon cycle studies: Meteorological station-based carbon flux dataset as a complement to EC towers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 362, 110397.
  • Meng, F., Felton, A. J., Mao, J., Cong, N., Smith, W. K., Körner, C., ... & Chen, A. (2024). Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change. Science Advances, 10(23), eadn2487.​
  • Cui, J., Chen, A., Huntingford, C, & Piao, S. (2024). Integrating ecosystem water demands into drought monitoring and assessment under climate change. Nature Water, 2 (3), 215-218
  • Yan, Y., Piao, S., Hammond, W. M., Chen, A., Hong, S., Xu, H., Munson, S. M., Mybneni, R. B., & Allen, C. D. (2024). Climate-induced tree mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (5), 912-923
  • Wang, C., Leisz, S., Li, L., Shi, X., Mao, J., Zheng, Y., & Chen, A. (2024). Historical and projected future runoff over the Mekong River basin, Earth System Dynamics, 15, 75–90.
  • Lin, Z., Chen, A., Wang, X., Liu, Z., & Piao, S. (2024). Large Language Models Reveal Big Disparities in Current Wildfire Research. Communications Earth & Environment, 5 (1), 168
  • Chen, A., Ricciuto, D., Mao, J., Wang, J., Lu, D., & Meng, F. (2023). Improving E3SM land model photosynthesis parameterization via satellite SIF, machine learning, and surrogate modeling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(4), e2022MS003135.
  • Wilcox, K. R., Chen, A., Avolio, M. L., Butler, E. E., Collins, S., Fisher, R., ... & Komatsu, K. J. (2023). Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global change biology, 29(23), 6453-6477.
  • Yang, H., Munson, S. M., Huntingford, C., Carvalhais, N., Knapp, A. K., Li, X., Peñuelas, J., Zscheischler, J. & Chen, A. (2023). The detection and attribution of extreme reductions in vegetation growth across the global land surface. Global Change Biology, 29(8), 2351-2362.
  • Wang, M., Lu, Z., Cong, N., & Chen, A. (2023). Much faster warming-tracking rate of the latitudinal forest line in North America than that in Eurasia under the early 21st century's warming. Global and Planetary Change, 104263.
  • Wang, M., Guo, Q., & Chen, A. (2023). The savannization of tropical forests in mainland Southeast Asia since 2000. Landscape Ecology, 1-11. 
  • Chen, A., Meng, F., Mao, J., Ricciuto, D., & Knapp, A. K. 2022. Photosynthesis phenology, as defined by solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, is overestimated by vegetation indices in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 323, 109027.
  • Hong, S. & Chen, A. 2022. Contrasting responses of soil inorganic carbon to afforestation in acidic versus alkaline soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, e2021GB007038.
  • Mao, W., Sun, Z., Forrestel, E. J., Griffin‐Nolan, R., Chen, A., & Smith, M. D. (2022). Using local and regional trait hypervolumes to study the effects of environmental factors on community assembly. Ecosphere, 13(10), e4253.
  • Yun, H., Tang, J., D’Imperio, L., Wang, X., Qu, Y., Liu, L., Zhuang, Q., Zhang, W., Wu, Q., Chen, A., Zhu, Q., and Elberling, B. (2022). Warming and increased respiration have transformed an alpine steppe ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau from a carbon dioxide sink into a source. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(1), p.e2021JG006406. 
  • Chen, A., Mao, J., Ricciuto, D.M., Lu, D., Xiao, J.F., Li, X., Thornton, P.E., Knapp, A.K. (2021). Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology 27 (20), 5186-5197.
  • Chen, A.P., Huang, L., Liu, Q., Piao, S.L. (2021). Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation in the Tibetan Plateau. Global Change Biology, 27(9), 1942-1951.
  • Chen, A.P., Mao, J.F., Ricciuto, D.M., Xiao, J.F., Frankenberg, C., Li, X., Gu, L.H., Thornton, P.E., Knapp, A.K. (2021). Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar-induced fluorescence: Insights from global scale variations. Global Change Biology, 27 (6), 1144-1156.
  • Wang, K., Wang, X., Piao, S., Chevallier, F., Mao, J., Shi, X., Huntingford, C., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Xu, H. and Keeling, R.F., Pacala, S.W. & Chen, A. (2021). Unusual characteristics of the carbon cycle during the 2015− 2016 El Niño. Global Change Biology, 27(16), 3798-3809.
  • Chen, A.P., Reperant, L., Fischhoff, I.R., Rubenstein, D.I. (2021). Increased vigilance of plains zebras (Equus quagga) in response to more bush coverage in a Kenyan savanna. Climate Change Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100001
  • Ren, Y., Zhu, Y., Baldan, D., Fu, M., Wang, B., Li, J., Chen, A. (2021). Optimizing livestock carrying capacity for wild ungulate-livestock coexistence in a Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grassland. Scientific Reports, 11, 3635.
  • Lu, Z., Peng, S., Slette, I., Cheng, G., Li, X., & Chen, A. (2021). Soil moisture seasonality alters vegetation response to drought in the Mongolian Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (1), 014050. 
  • Chen, A., Tang, R., Mao, J., Yue, C., Li, X., Gao, M., ... & Ciais, P. (2020). Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem fires and biomass burning-induced carbon emissions in China over the past two decades. Geography and Sustainability, 1 (1), 47-58.
  • Hong, S., Yin, G., … & Chen, A. (2020). Divergent responses of soil organic carbon to afforestation. Nature Sustainability, 3 (9), 694-700.
  • Chen, A. (2020). The 400-year natural history of a tropical coastal mangrove-fringed lagoon: What can we learn? Global Change Biology, 26, 3185-3187.
  • Zhou, Y., Chen, A., Ouyang, J.Q., et al. (2020). Comparing community birdwatching and professional bird monitoring with implications for avian diversity research: a case study of Suzhou, China. Avian Research, 11(1), 1-11.
Key collaborative papers
  • Lang, W., Zhang, Y., Li, X., Meng, F., Liu, Q., Wang, K., Xu, H., Chen, A., Peñuelas, J., Janssens, I.A.  & Piao, S. (2025). Phenological divergence between plants and animals under climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(2), 261-272.
  • Liu, X., Wang, D., Chen, A., & Zeng, Z. (2025). Asymmetric sensitivity of boreal forest resilience to forest gain and loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-10.
  • Dai, L., Liang, M., Chen, A., Yang, G., Jin, C., Yuan, W., & Hu, Z. (2025). Increased asymmetry of ecosystem productivity responses to precipitation in recent two decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(6), e2024GL113861.
  • Xu, P., Li, G., Zheng, Y., Fung, J. C., Chen, A., Zeng, Z., ... & Houlton, B. Z. (2024). Fertilizer management for global ammonia emission reduction. Nature, 626(8000), 792-798.
  • Huang, Y., Song, X., Wang, Y.-P., Canadell, J. G., Luo, Y., Ciais, P., Chen, A., Hong, S., …, & Zhang, G.-L. (2024). Size, distribution and vulnerability of the global soil inorganic carbon. Science, 384 (6692), 233-239
  • Lian, X., Peñuelas, J., Ryu, Y., Piao, S., Keenan, T.F., Fang, J., Yu, K., Chen, A., Zhang, Y. and Gentine, P. (2024). Diminishing carryover benefits of earlier spring vegetation growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (2), 218-228
  • Guo, Q., Chen, A., Crockett, E.T.H., Atkins, J.W., Chen, X., & Fei, S. (2023). Integrating gradient with scale in ecological and evolutionary studies. Ecology, doi: 10.1002/ecy.3982.
  • Li, S., Zheng, Y., Han, F., Xu, P., & Chen, A. (2023). Ecological flow management identified as leading driver of grassland greening in the Gobi Desert using deep learning. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(11), e2023GL103369.
  • ​Meng, F., Hong, S., Wang, J., Chen, A., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., ... & Piao, S. (2023). Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up. Ecology Letters, 26(5), 816-826.
  • Xu, P., Houlton, B. Z., Zheng, Y., Zhou, F., Ma, L., Li, B., ... & Chen, A. (2022). Policy-enabled stabilization of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock production in China over 1978–2017. Nature Food, 3(5), 356-366.
  • Zou, J., Ziegler, A. D., Chen, D., McNicol, G., Ciais, P., Jiang, X., ... Chen, A., & Zeng, Z. (2022). Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Geoscience, 15(8), 627-632.
  • Yu, Y., Mao, J., Wullschleger, S. D., Chen, A., Shi, X., Wang, Y., ... & Pierce, E. (2022). Machine learning–based observation-constrained projections reveal elevated global socioeconomic risks from wildfire. Nature communications, 13(1), 1-11.
  • Wang, X., Wang, T., Xu, J., Shen, Z., Yang, Y., Chen, A., ... & Piao, S. (2022). Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(7), 890-899.
  • Xu, H., Lian, X., Slette, I. J., Yang, H., Zhang, Y., Chen, A., & Piao, S. (2022). Rising ecosystem water demand exacerbates the lengthening of tropical dry seasons. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-11.
  • Zhang, Y., Piao, S., Sun, Y., Rogers, B. M., Li, X., Lian, X., Liu, Z., Chen, A., & Peñuelas, J. (2022). Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Climate Change, 1-6.
  • Zeng, X., Hu, Z., Chen, A., Yuan, W., Hou, G., Han, D., ... & Luo, D. (2022). The global decline in the sensitivity of vegetation productivity to precipitation from 2001 to 2018. Global Change Biology, 28(22), 6823-6833.
  • Chen, A., Chen, A., Ollis, V., & Chen, D. (2022). Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–2019. Ambio 51 (8), 1889-1903.
  • Lian, X., Piao, S., Chen, A., Wang, K., Li, X., Buermann, W., ... & Myneni, R. B. (2021). Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth. Nature Communications, 12(1), 983.
  • Lian, X., Piao, S., Chen, A., Huntingford, C., Fu, B., Li, L. Z., ... & Roderick, M. L. (2021). Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(4), 232-250.
  • Knapp, A. K., Chen, A., Griffin-Nolan, R. J., Baur, L. E., Carroll, C. J., Gray, J. E., ... & Smith, M. D. (2020). Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(36), 22249-22255.
  • Xu, P., Chen, A.P., Houlton, B. Z., et al. (2020). Spatial variation of reactive nitrogen emissions from China’s croplands codetermined by regional urbanization and its feedback to global climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086551.  
  • Li, X., Piao, S., Wang, K., Wang, X., Wang, T., Ciais, P., Chen, A., Lian, X., Peng, S. and Peñuelas, J., (2020). Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4 (8), 1075-1083. 
  • Li, Y., Piao, S., Chen, A., Ciais, P., & Li, L. Z. (2020). Local and teleconnected temperature effects of afforestation and vegetation greening in China. National Science Review, 7(5), 897-912.
  • Piao, S., Wang, X., Park, T., Chen, C., Lian, X. U., He, Y., Bjerke, J.W., Chen, A., Ciais, P., Tømmervik, H. & Myneni, R. B. (2020). Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(1), 14-27.
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