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Vegetation-climate interactions, ecohydrology, climate change
China, United States

Activities

Employment (1)

Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences: New york, NY, US

Postdoc researcher (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Employment
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Xu Lian

Education and qualifications (2)

Peking University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2016-09-01 to 2021-06-30 | PHD (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences)
Education
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Xu Lian

Wuhan University: Wuhan, Hubei, CN

2012-09-01 to 2016-06-30 | B.S.
Education
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Xu Lian

Professional activities (1)

Ecological Society of America: Washington, DC, US

2020-06-21 | Asian Ecology Section 2020 Outstanding Student Award
Distinction
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Xu Lian

Works (50)

Author Correction: Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening

Nature Communications
2025-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Li; Yao Zhang; Emanuele Bevacqua; Jakob Zscheischler; Trevor F. Keenan; Xu Lian; Sha Zhou; Hongying Zhang; Mingzhu He; Shilong Piao
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Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening

Nature Communications
2024-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Jun Li; Yao Zhang; Emanuele Bevacqua; Jakob Zscheischler; Trevor F. Keenan; Xu Lian; Sha Zhou; Hongying Zhang; Mingzhu He; Shilong Piao
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Water deficit and storm disturbances co-regulate Amazon rainforest seasonality

Science Advances
2024-09-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Lian; Catherine Morfopoulos; Pierre Gentine
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Roofing Highways With Solar Panels Substantially Reduces Carbon Emissions and Traffic Losses

Earth's Future
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Hou Jiang; Ning Lu; Jun Qin; Ling Yao; Xu Lian; Jijiang He; Tang Liu; Chenghu Zhou
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Weakened connection between spring leaf‐out and autumn senescence in the Northern Hemisphere

Global Change Biology
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Yichen Zhang; Songbai Hong; Josep Peñuelas; Hao Xu; Kai Wang; Yao Zhang; Xu Lian; Shilong Piao
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Observational Constraints and Attribution of Global Plant Transpiration Changes Over the Past Four Decades

Geophysical Research Letters
2024-06-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiangpeng Cui; Jinzhi Ding; Xu Lian; Zhongwang Wei; Shijie Li; Jian Peng; Rafael Poyatos; Tao Wang; Shilong Piao
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Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature

Nature Geoscience
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuxiang Zhang; Xuhui Wang; Xu Lian; Sien Li; Yue Li; Chi Chen; Shilong Piao
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The overlooked local air warming mitigation of potential tree restoration

2024-05-29 | Preprint
Contributors: Zhao-Liang Li; Yitao Li; Hua Wu; Xiangyang Liu; Xu Lian; Menglin Si; Jing Li; Chenghu Zhou; Ronglin Tang; Sibo Duan et al.
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Diminishing carryover benefits of earlier spring vegetation growth

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2024-01-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Lian; Josep Peñuelas; Youngryel Ryu; Shilong Piao; Trevor F. Keenan; Jianing Fang; Kailiang Yu; Anping Chen; Yao Zhang; Pierre Gentine
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Discrepant trends in global land-surface and air temperatures controlled by vegetation biophysical feedbacks

Environmental Research Letters
2023-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Fei Kan; Xu Lian; Jiangpeng Cui; Anping Chen; Jiafu Mao; Mingzhu He; Hao Xu; Shilong Piao
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Spatial Pattern of Plant Transpiration Over China Constrained by Observations

Geophysical Research Letters
2023-10-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiangpeng Cui; Mingzhu He; Xu Lian; Zhongwang Wei; Tao Wang
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Enhanced dominance of soil moisture stress on vegetation growth in Eurasian drylands

National Science Review
2023-06-28 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2095-5138
Part of ISSN: 2053-714X
Contributors: Yu Zhang; Yangjian Zhang; Xu Lian; Zhoutao Zheng; guang zhao; Tao Zhang; Minjie Xu; Ke Huang; Ning Chen; Ji Li et al.
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Xu Lian

Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening

Nature Communications
2023-01-03 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Shuchang Tang; Anouk Vlug; Shilong Piao; Fei Li; Tao Wang; Gerhard Krinner; Laurent Li; Xuhui Wang; 光剑 邬; Yue Li et al.
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Xu Lian

Recent global decline in rainfall interception loss due to altered rainfall regimes

Nature Communications
2022-12-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Lian; Wenli Zhao; Pierre Gentine
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Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport

Nature Geoscience
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1752-0894
Part of ISSN: 1752-0908
Contributors: Jiangpeng Cui; Xu Lian; Chris Huntingford; LUIS GIMENO; Tao Wang; Jinzhi Ding; Mingzhu He; Hao Xu; Anping Chen; Pierre Gentine et al.
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Xu Lian

Inappropriateness of space-for-time and variability-for-time approaches to infer future dryland productivity changes

Frontiers in Environmental Science
2022-10-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2296-665X
Contributors: Weiwei Zhan; Xu Lian; Jiangong Liu; Pierre Gentine
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Xu Lian

Global Spectrum of Vegetation Light‐Use Efficiency

Geophysical Research Letters
2022-08-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Mingzhu He; Shaoyuan Chen; Xu Lian; Xuhui Wang; Josep Peñuelas; Shilong Piao
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Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

Nature Communications
2022-08-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Yao Zhang; Pierre Gentine; Xiangzhong Luo; Xu Lian; Yanlan Liu; Sha Zhou; Anna M. Michalak; Wu Sun; Joshua B. Fisher; Shilong Piao et al.
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Rising ecosystem water demand exacerbates the lengthening of tropical dry seasons

Nature Communications
2022-07-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Hao Xu; Xu Lian; Ingrid J. Slette; Hui Yang; Yuan Zhang; Anping Chen; Shilong Piao
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Biophysical impacts of northern vegetation changes on seasonal warming patterns

Nature Communications
2022-07-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Lian; Sujong Jeong; Chang-Eui Park; Hao Xu; Laurent Z. X. Li; Tao Wang; Pierre Gentine; Josep Peñuelas; Shilong Piao
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Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere

Nature Climate Change
2022-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Yichen Zhang; Shilong Piao; Yan Sun; Brendan M. Rogers; Xiangyi Li; Xu Lian; Zhihua Liu; Anping Chen; Josep Peñuelas
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Vegetation physiological response to increasing atmospheric CO <sub>2</sub> slows the decreases in the seasonal amplitude of temperature

Geophysical Research Letters
2022-03-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
Part of ISSN: 1944-8007
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Xu Lian
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Vegetation Response to Rising CO<sub>2</sub> Amplifies Contrasts in Water Resources Between Global Wet and Dry Land Areas

Geophysical Research Letters
2021-07-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
Part of ISSN: 1944-8007
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Xu Lian

Reply to: Disentangling biology from mathematical necessity in twentieth-century gymnosperm resilience trends

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2021-04-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiangyi Li; Shilong Piao; Kai Wang; Xuhui Wang; Tao Wang; Philippe Ciais; Anping Chen; Xu Lian; Shushi Peng; Josep Peñuelas
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Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2021-03-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu Lian; Shilong Piao; Anping Chen; Chris Huntingford; Bojie Fu; Laurent Z. X. Li; Jianping Huang; Justin Sheffield; Alexis M. Berg; Trevor F. Keenan et al.
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Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth

Nature Communications
2021-02-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Xu Lian
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Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation

Nature Geoscience
2020-12-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1752-0894
Part of ISSN: 1752-0908
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Xu Lian

Vegetation forcing modulates global land monsoon and water resources in a CO2-enriched climate

Nature Communications
2020-10-14 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Xu Lian

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

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2020-06-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2397-334X
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Xu Lian

Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2020-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2662-138X
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Xu Lian

Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation

Science Advances
2020-01-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2375-2548
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Xu Lian
grade
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The impacts of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review

Science China Earth Sciences
2019-05-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1674-7313
Part of ISSN: 1869-1897
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Xu Lian

Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

Global Change Biology
2019-03-18 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1354-1013
Part of ISSN: 1365-2486
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Xu Lian

Emerging negative impact of warming on summer carbon uptake in northern ecosystems

Nature Communications
2018-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Xu Lian

Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial evapotranspiration in China during the past thirty years

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2018-12-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0168-1923
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Xu Lian

Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

Nature Climate Change
2018-06-29 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-678X
Part of ISSN: 1758-6798
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Xu Lian

Comment on “Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth”

Science
2018-06-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Part of ISSN: 1095-9203
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Xu Lian
grade
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Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

Science Advances
2018-05-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2375-2548
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Xu Lian
grade
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Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle

Journal of Climate
2018-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Part of ISSN: 1520-0442
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Xu Lian

Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost

Nature Communications
2018-01-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Xu Lian

Seasonal Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Cycle to Climate Variations in CMIP5 Models: Evaluation and Projection

Journal of Climate
2017-08-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0894-8755
Part of ISSN: 1520-0442
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Xu Lian

Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

Nature Climate Change
2017-05-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-678X
Part of ISSN: 1758-6798
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Xu Lian

Regional patterns of future runoff changes from Earth system models constrained by observation

Geophysical Research Letters
2017-05-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0094-8276
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Xu Lian
grade
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Attribution of seasonal leaf area index trends in the northern latitudes with “optimally” integrated ecosystem models

Global Change Biology
2017-04-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1354-1013
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Xu Lian

Spatiotemporal variations in the difference between satellite‐observed daily maximum land surface temperature and station‐based daily maximum near‐surface air temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2017-02-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-897X
Part of ISSN: 2169-8996
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Xu Lian
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Plausible rice yield losses under future climate warming

Nature Plants
2016-12-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2055-0278
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Xu Lian

Responses of land evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening in CMIP5 Earth System Models

Environmental Research Letters
2016-10-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1748-9326
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Xu Lian

Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

Nature Climate Change
2016-06-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-678X
Part of ISSN: 1758-6798
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Xu Lian

Evaluating biases in simulated land surface albedo from CMIP5 global climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
2016-06-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-897X
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Xu Lian

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Nature Climate Change
2016-04-25 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-678X
Part of ISSN: 1758-6798
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Xu Lian

Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Nature climate change (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (2)
Review activity for Nature ecology & evolution. (1)
Review activity for Nature sustainability. (1)