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High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 by Sanche, Steven, Lin, Yen Ting, Xu, Chonggang, Romero-Severson, Ethan, Hengartner, Nick, Ke, Ruian

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is the causative agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. Initial estimates of the early dynamics of…”
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Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis by Luo, Xiangzhong, Keenan, Trevor F., Chen, Jing M., Croft, Holly, Colin Prentice, I., Smith, Nicholas G., Walker, Anthony P., Wang, Han, Wang, Rong, Xu, Chonggang, Zhang, Yao

“…Plants invest a considerable amount of leaf nitrogen in the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), forming a strong…”
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Global sensitivity analysis in hydrological modeling: Review of concepts, methods, theoretical framework, and applications by Song, Xiaomeng, Zhang, Jianyun, Zhan, Chesheng, Xuan, Yunqing, Ye, Ming, Xu, Chonggang

“…•We reviewed global sensitivity analysis methods for hydrological modeling.•We examine categories, methods, applications, and limitations for SA.•We discuss…”
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Increasing Impacts of Extreme Droughts on Vegetation Productivity Under Climate Change by Xu, Chonggang, McDowell, Nate G., Fisher, Rosie A., Wei, Liang, Sevanto, Sanna, Christoffersen, Bradley O., Weng, Ensheng, Middleton, Richard S.

“…Terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) is the basis of vegetation growth and food production globally and plays a critical role in regulating atmospheric…”
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Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world by McDowell, Nate G., Allen, Craig D., Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina, Aukema, Brian H., Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Chini, Louise, Clark, James S., Dietze, Michael, Grossiord, Charlotte, Hanbury-Brown, Adam, Hurtt, George C., Jackson, Robert B., Johnson, Daniel J., Kueppers, Lara, Lichstein, Jeremy W., Ogle, Kiona, Poulter, Benjamin, Pugh, Thomas A. M., Seidl, Rupert, Turner, Monica G., Uriarte, Maria, Walker, Anthony P., Xu, Chonggang

“…Forest dynamics are the processes of recruitment, growth, death, and turnover of the constituent tree species of the forest community. These processes are…”
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Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities by Fisher, Rosie A., Koven, Charles D., Anderegg, William R. L., Christoffersen, Bradley O., Dietze, Michael C., Farrior, Caroline E., Holm, Jennifer A., Hurtt, George C., Knox, Ryan G., Lawrence, Peter J., Lichstein, Jeremy W., Longo, Marcos, Matheny, Ashley M., Medvigy, David, Muller‐Landau, Helene C., Powell, Thomas L., Serbin, Shawn P., Sato, Hisashi, Shuman, Jacquelyn K., Smith, Benjamin, Trugman, Anna T., Viskari, Toni, Verbeeck, Hans, Weng, Ensheng, Xu, Chonggang, Xu, Xiangtao, Zhang, Tao, Moorcroft, Paul R.

“…Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models (ESMs). These…”
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Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with correlated parameters by Xu, Chonggang, Gertner, George Zdzislaw

“…When conducting sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, most of the global sensitivity techniques assume parameter independence. However, it is common that the…”
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Linking microbial community composition to C loss rates during wood decomposition by Hu, Zhenhong, Xu, Chonggang, McDowell, Nathan G., Johnson, Daniel J., Wang, Minhuang, Luo, Yiqi, Zhou, Xuhui, Huang, Zhiqun

“…Although decaying wood plays an important role in global carbon (C) cycling, how changes in microbial community are related to wood C quality and then affect…”
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Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest by Chitra‐Tarak, Rutuja, Xu, Chonggang, Aguilar, Salomón, Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., Chambers, Jeff, Detto, Matteo, Faybishenko, Boris, Fisher, Rosie A., Knox, Ryan G., Koven, Charles D., Kueppers, Lara M, Kunert, Nobert, Kupers, Stefan J., McDowell, Nate G., Newman, Brent D., Paton, Steven R., Pérez, Rolando, Ruiz, Laurent, Sack, Lawren, Warren, Jeffrey M., Wolfe, Brett T., Wright, Cynthia, Wright, S. Joseph, Zailaa, Joseph, McMahon, Sean M.

“…Summary Deep‐water access is arguably the most effective, but under‐studied, mechanism that plants employ to survive during drought. Vulnerability to embolism…”
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Understanding and comparisons of different sampling approaches for the Fourier Amplitudes Sensitivity Test (FAST) by Xu, Chonggang, Gertner, George

“…Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (FAST) is one of the most popular uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques. It uses a periodic sampling approach and…”
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Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel–experiment framework by McDowell, Nate G., Fisher, Rosie A., Xu, Chonggang, Domec, J. C., Hölttä, Teemu, Mackay, D. Scott, Sperry, John S., Boutz, Amanda, Dickman, Lee, Gehres, Nathan, Limousin, Jean Marc, Macalady, Alison, Martínez‐Vilalta, Jordi, Mencuccini, Maurizio, Plaut, Jennifer A., Ogée, Jérôme, Pangle, Robert E., Rasse, Daniel P., Ryan, Michael G., Sevanto, Sanna, Waring, Richard H., Williams, A. Park, Yepez, Enrico A., Pockman, William T.

“…Model–data comparisons of plant physiological processes provide an understanding of mechanisms underlying vegetation responses to climate. We simulated the…”
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Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat by McDowell, Nate G, Grossiord, Charlotte, Adams, Henry D, Pinzón-Navarro, Sara, Mackay, D Scott, Breshears, David D, Allen, Craig D, Borrego, Isaac, Dickman, L Turin, Collins, Adam, Gaylord, Monica, McBranch, Natalie, Pockman, William T, Vilagrosa, Alberto, Aukema, Brian, Goodsman, Devin, Xu, Chonggang

“…Predictions of warmer droughts causing increasing forest mortality are becoming abundant, yet few studies have investigated the mechanisms of forest…”
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Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances by McDowell, Nate G., Coops, Nicholas C., Beck, Pieter S.A., Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Gangodagamage, Chandana, Hicke, Jeffrey A., Huang, Cho-ying, Kennedy, Robert, Krofcheck, Dan J., Litvak, Marcy, Meddens, Arjan J.H., Muss, Jordan, Negrón-Juarez, Robinson, Peng, Changhui, Schwantes, Amanda M., Swenson, Jennifer J., Vernon, Louis J., Williams, A. Park, Xu, Chonggang, Zhao, Maosheng, Running, Steve W., Allen, Craig D.

“…•There is a lack of a comprehensive monitoring system of current terrestrial disturbances.•Remote sensing offers enormous potential for global disturbance…”
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Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro) by Christoffersen, Bradley O, Gloor, Manuel, Fauset, Sophie, Fyllas, Nikolaos M, Galbraith, David R, Baker, Timothy R, Kruijt, Bart, Rowland, Lucy, Fisher, Rosie A, Binks, Oliver J, Sevanto, Sanna, Xu, Chonggang, Jansen, Steven, Choat, Brendan, Mencuccini, Maurizio, McDowell, Nate G, Meir, Patrick

“…Forest ecosystem models based on heuristic water stress functions poorly predict tropical forest response to drought partly because they do not capture the…”
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Our limited ability to predict vegetation dynamics under water stress by Xu, Chonggang, McDowell, Nate G., Sevanto, Sanna, Fisher, Rosie A.

“…Featured paper: See also the Editorial by McDowell et al…”
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Global-scale environmental control of plant photosynthetic capacity by Ali, Ashehad A, Xu, Chonggang, Rogers, Alistair, McDowell, Nathan G, Medlyn, Belinda E, Fisher, Rosie A, Wullschleger, Stan D, Reich, Peter B, Vrugt, Jasper A, Bauerle, William L, Santiago, Louis S, Wilson, Cathy J

“…Photosynthetic capacity, determined by light harvesting and carboxylation reactions, is a key plant trait that determines the rate of photosynthesis; however,…”
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Using traits to uncover tropical forest function by McDowell, Nate G., Xu, Chonggang

“…This article is a Commentary on Asner et al. (pp. 973–988), Bahar et al. (pp. 1002–1018), Chavana‐Bryant et al. (pp. 1049–1063), Goldsmith et al. (pp…”
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Informing models through empirical relationships between foliar phosphorus, nitrogen and photosynthesis across diverse woody species in tropical forests of Panama by Norby, Richard J., Gu, Lianhong, Haworth, Ivan C., Jensen, Anna M., Turner, Benjamin L., Walker, Anthony P., Warren, Jeffrey M., Weston, David J., Xu, Chonggang, Winter, Klaus

“…Our objective was to analyze and summarize data describing photosynthetic parameters and foliar nutrient concentrations from tropical forests in Panama to…”
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Effects of different vegetation drag parameterizations on the tidal propagation in coastal marshlands by Cao, Zhendong, Zhang, Yu, Wolfram, Phillip J., Brus, Steven R., Rowland, Joel C., Xu, Chonggang, Pasqualini, Donatella, Begeman, Carolyn B., Petersen, Mark R.

“…•Four vegetation drag parameterizations were compared in one model for the first time.•Parameterizations had different sensitivities to tides and vegetation…”
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Generalized Relationship Linking Water Balance and Vegetation Productivity across Site-to-Regional Scales by Abeshu, Guta Wakbulcho, Li, Hong-Yi, Shi, Mingjie, Brookshire, Jack, Tang, Jinyun, Xu, Chonggang, McDowell, Nate, Leung, Lai-Yung Ruby

“…AbstractEvapotranspiration (ET) is a pivotal component in catchment-scale water balance and is essential for informed watershed management. Nevertheless,…”
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