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Xu Lian

Columbia University · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Environmental science, Climatology, Vegetation (pathology), Climate change, Greening, and Ecosystem.
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citations
7,951
works
16
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Observed different impacts of potential tree restoration on local surface and air temperature
Nature Communications 2025cited by 23position: middledoi
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature
Nature Geoscience 2024cited by 56position: middledoi
Observational Constraints and Attribution of Global Plant Transpiration Changes Over the Past Four Decades
Geophysical Research Letters 2024cited by 13position: middledoi
Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2
Nature Communications 2022cited by 271position: middledoi
Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2021cited by 645position: firstdoi
Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth
Nature Communications 2021cited by 155position: firstdoi
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
Science Advances 2020cited by 480position: firstdoi
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation
Nature Geoscience 2020cited by 131position: middledoi
Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2019cited by 2,028position: middledoi
Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost
Nature Communications 2018cited by 375position: middledoi
Impact of Earth Greening on the Terrestrial Water Cycle
Journal of Climate 2018cited by 213position: middledoi
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades
Nature Climate Change 2017cited by 519position: middledoi
Attribution of seasonal leaf area index trends in the northern latitudes with “optimally” integrated ecosystem models
Global Change Biology 2017cited by 60position: middledoi
Greening of the Earth and its drivers
Nature Climate Change 2016cited by 2,624position: middledoi
Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface
Nature Climate Change 2016cited by 187position: lastdoi
Plausible rice yield losses under future climate warming
Nature Plants 2016cited by 171position: middledoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

Shilong Piao · King University14 papers (2016–2024)Ranga B. Myneni · Boston University9 papers (2016–2021)Philippe Ciais · King University8 papers (2016–2020)Xuhui Wang · National University of Singapore6 papers (2016–2024)Zhenzhong Zeng · Princeton University5 papers (2016–2020) · 5 papers (2016–2018)Josep Peñuelas · Nanjing University5 papers (2016–2021)Jiafu Mao · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign4 papers (2016–2018)Yue Li · Jiangnan University4 papers (2016–2024)Laurent Li · Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine4 papers (2017–2021)Anping Chen · Princeton University4 papers (2019–2021)Yuting Yang · Australian National University3 papers (2018–2021)Chris Huntingford · University of Exeter3 papers (2020–2021)Mengtian Huang · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory3 papers (2016–2016)Ivan A. Janssens · University of Antwerp3 papers (2016–2020)Xiaoying Shi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign3 papers (2016–2018)Ying‐Ping Wang · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation2 papers (2016–2017)Wolfgang Buermann · University of Augsburg2 papers (2020–2021)Chi Chen · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey2 papers (2019–2024)Tim R. McVicar · Princeton University2 papers (2020–2021)