Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Zaichun Zhu, Shilong Piao, Ranga B. Myneni, +29

Nature Climate Change

Green GrowthEarth ScienceEnvironmental ImpactsEngineeringGreen Transition +5

Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

Yue Li, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, +9

Science Advances

Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, +14

Nature Climate Change

Climate MitigationEngineeringTerrestrial EcosystemDroughtTerrestrial Ecosystem Productivity +6

Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation

Xu Lian, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, +16

Science Advances

ClimatologyEngineeringDroughtSoil ScienceSummer Soil Drying +11

Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost

Qiang Liu, Shilong Piao, Ivan A. Janssens, +7

Nature Communications

Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

Xu Lian, Shilong Piao, Chris Huntingford, +11

Nature Climate Change

ClimatologyHydrometeorologyData AssimilationEngineeringLand Use +10

Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought

Xiangyi Li, Shilong Piao, Kai Wang, +7

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Forest HealthDroughtForest RestorationEvolutionary BiologyForestry +6

Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

Yao Zhang, Pierre Gentine, Xiangzhong Luo, +8

Nature Communications

Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport

Jiangpeng Cui, Xu Lian, Chris Huntingford, +8

Nature Geoscience

Water AvailabilityEngineeringWater ResourcesVegetation-atmosphere InteractionsAtmospheric Moisture Transport +6

Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, +7

Journal of Climate

Terrestrial Water CycleEngineeringEnvironmental CycleClimate ModelingEarth System Science +16