phenology

Using very-high-resolution satellite imagery, this paper maps the fine-scale spatial patterns of alpine treeline ecotones worldwide and shows that snow, wind, topography, and how close treelines sit to their thermal limit predict whether ecotones are patchy or discrete.

Spring and autumn phenology jointly regulate terrestrial carbon, water, and energy exchanges, yet the mechanisms linking seasonal …

Across 25 NEON forest sites, we show that canopy gaps are consistently linked to phenological shifts, with earlier spring green-up at 15 sites and delayed autumn senescence at 18 sites. Typical gap sizes shift timing by −2 to +2 days in spring and −1 to +5 days in autumn, with effects varying by biome and background climate.

Hanshi will give a talk on how canopy nutrients influence autumn senescence

Tong will give an invited talk about modeling phenology across scales

Terrestrial vegetation is a crucial component of Earth’s biosphere, regulating global carbon and water cycles and contributing to …

Hanshi Chen will present on phenology response to canopy structure

Tong will present phenological modeling using joint models

Vegetation change in China and its response to climatic and anthropogenic influences

We developed a model to quantify how daily phenological development responds to climate change and extreme weather eventts.