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Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009 by Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steven W.

“…Terrestrial net primary production (NPP) quantifies the amount of atmospheric carbon fixed by plants and accumulated as biomass. Previous studies have shown…”
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Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires? by Running, Steven W.

“…Higher spring and summer temperatures and earlier snowmelt are extending the wildfire season and increasing the intensity of wildfires in the western US. This…”
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A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation by Zhang, Ke, Kimball, John S., Running, Steven W.

“…Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges…”
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Vegetation Greening and Climate Change Promote Multidecadal Rises of Global Land Evapotranspiration by Zhang, Ke, Kimball, John S., Nemani, Ramakrishna R., Running, Steven W., Hong, Yang, Gourley, Jonathan J., Yu, Zhongbo

“…Recent studies showed that anomalous dry conditions and limited moisture supply roughly between 1998 and 2008, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, led to…”
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A global comparison between station air temperatures and MODIS land surface temperatures reveals the cooling role of forests by Mildrexler, David J., Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steven W.

“…Most global temperature analyses are based on station air temperatures. This study presents a global analysis of the relationship between remotely sensed…”
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Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle by Poulter, Benjamin, Frank, David, Ciais, Philippe, Myneni, Ranga B., Andela, Niels, Bi, Jian, Broquet, Gregoire, Canadell, Josep G., Chevallier, Frederic, Liu, Yi Y., Running, Steven W., Sitch, Stephen, van der Werf, Guido R.

“…The unusually large land carbon sink reported in 2011 can mostly be attributed to semi-arid vegetation growth in the Southern Hemisphere following increased…”
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Ecosystem services lost to oil and gas in North America by Allred, Brady W, Smith, WKolby, Twidwell, Dirac, Haggerty, Julia H, Running, Steven W, Naugle, David E, Fuhlendorf, Samuel D

“…Net primary production reduced in crop and rangelands Advanced technologies in oil and gas extraction coupled with energy demand have encouraged an average of…”
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A continuous satellite-derived global record of land surface evapotranspiration from 1983 to 2006 by Zhang, Ke, Kimball, John S., Nemani, Ramakrishna R., Running, Steven W.

“…We applied a satellite remote sensing–based evapotranspiration (ET) algorithm to assess global terrestrial ET from 1983 to 2006. The algorithm quantifies…”
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A REMOTELY SENSED GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX by Mu, Qiaozhen, Zhao, Maosheng, Kimball, John S., McDowell, Nathan G., Running, Steven W.

“…Regional drought and flooding from extreme climatic events are increasing in frequency and severity, with significant adverse ecosocial impacts. Detecting and…”
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Impacts of climate change on natural forest productivity - evidence since the middle of the 20th century by BOISVENUE, CÉLINE, RUNNING, STEVEN W

“…Changes to forest production drivers (light, water, temperature, and site nutrient) over the last 55 years have been documented in peer-reviewed literature…”
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Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling by Pan, Shufen, Pan, Naiqing, Tian, Hanqin, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Sitch, Stephen, Shi, Hao, Arora, Vivek K., Haverd, Vanessa, Jain, Atul K., Kato, Etsushi, Lienert, Sebastian, Lombardozzi, Danica, Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Ottlé, Catherine, Poulter, Benjamin, Zaehle, Sönke

“…Evapotranspiration (ET) is critical in linking global water, carbon and energy cycles. However, direct measurement of global terrestrial ET is not feasible…”
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Patterns of new versus recycled primary production in the terrestrial biosphere by Cleveland, Cory C., Houlton, Benjamin Z., Smith, W. Kolby, Marklein, Alison R., Reed, Sasha C., Parton, William, Del Grosso, Stephen J., Running, Steven W.

“…Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability regulate plant productivity throughout the terrestrial biosphere, influencing the patterns and magnitude of net…”
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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests by Allen, Craig D., Macalady, Alison K., Chenchouni, Haroun, Bachelet, Dominique, McDowell, Nate, Vennetier, Michel, Kitzberger, Thomas, Rigling, Andreas, Breshears, David D., Hogg, E.H. (Ted), Gonzalez, Patrick, Fensham, Rod, Zhang, Zhen, Castro, Jorge, Demidova, Natalia, Lim, Jong-Hwan, Allard, Gillian, Running, Steven W., Semerci, Akkin, Cobb, Neil

“…Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do so in the future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or…”
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Sensitivity of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) terrestrial primary production to the accuracy of meteorological reanalyses by Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steven W., Nemani, Ramakrishna R.

“…The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA's satellites, Terra and Aqua, dramatically improves our ability to accurately and…”
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GLOBAL ARIDIFICATION AND THE DECLINE OF NPP: A COMMENTARY on Projected increases in global terrestrial net primary productivity loss caused by drought under climate change by Dan Cao, Jiahua Zhang, Jiaqi Han, Tian Zhang, Shanshan Yang, Jingwen Wang, Foyez Ahmed Prodhan, and Fengmei Yao by Running, Steven W.

“…Net primary production (NPP) is an important metric of the global carbon cycle, critical for monitoring climate stabilization and for societal economic…”
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Response to Comments on “Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009” by Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steven W

“…Samanta et al . and Medlyn challenge our report of reduced global terrestrial net primary production (NPP) from 2000 through 2009. Our new tests show that…”
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Suitable Days for Plant Growth Disappear under Projected Climate Change: Potential Human and Biotic Vulnerability by Mora, Camilo, Caldwell, Iain R, Caldwell, Jamie M, Fisher, Micah R, Genco, Brandon M, Running, Steven W

“…Ongoing climate change can alter conditions for plant growth, in turn affecting ecological and social systems. While there have been considerable advances in…”
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Improvements of the MODIS terrestrial gross and net primary production global data set by Zhao, Maosheng, Heinsch, Faith Ann, Nemani, Ramakrishna R., Running, Steven W.

“…MODIS primary production products (MOD17) are the first regular, near-real-time data sets for repeated monitoring of vegetation primary production on vegetated…”
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European land CO2 sink influenced by NAO and East-Atlantic Pattern coupling by Bastos, Ana, Janssens, Ivan A., Gouveia, Célia M., Trigo, Ricardo M., Ciais, Philippe, Chevallier, Frédéric, Peñuelas, Josep, Rödenbeck, Christian, Piao, Shilong, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Running, Steven W.

“…Large-scale climate patterns control variability in the global carbon sink. In Europe, the North-Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) influences vegetation activity,…”
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Global Bioenergy Capacity as Constrained by Observed Biospheric Productivity Rates by Smith, W. Kolby, Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steven W

“…Virtually all global energy forecasts include an expectation that bioenergy will be a substantial future energy source. However, the scale of this potential…”
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