BioM2 Lab Biosphere Modeling and Monitoring

Lab Publications

2024

Estimating merchantable and non-merchantable wood volume in slash walls using terrestrial and airborne LiDAR
Estimating merchantable and non-merchantable wood volume in slash walls using terrestrial and airborne LiDAR
Nicholas Cranmer, Tao Han, Brett Chedzoy, Peter J. Smallidge, Colin Beier, Lucas Johnson, Xiangtao Xu
Forest Ecology and Management  ·  01 Oct 2024  ·  doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122211
tls forestry
Two sub‐annual timescales and coupling modes for terrestrial water and carbon cycles
Two sub‐annual timescales and coupling modes for terrestrial water and carbon cycles
Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Kaighin A. McColl, Andrew F. Feldman, Xiangtao Xu, Dara Entekhabi
Global Change Biology  ·  09 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.17463
ecohydrology
AppleQSM: Geometry-Based 3D Characterization of Apple Tree Architecture in Orchards
AppleQSM: Geometry-Based 3D Characterization of Apple Tree Architecture in Orchards
Tian Qiu, Tao Wang, Tao Han, Kaspar Kuehn, Lailiang Cheng, Cheng Meng, Xiangtao Xu, Kenong Xu, Jiang Yu
Plant Phenomics  ·  08 May 2024  ·  doi:10.34133/plantphenomics.0179
Global photosynthetic capacity jointly determined by enzyme kinetics and eco-evo-environmental drivers
Global photosynthetic capacity jointly determined by enzyme kinetics and eco-evo-environmental drivers
Zhengbing Yan, Matteo Detto, Zhengfei Guo, Nicholas G. Smith, Han Wang, …, Shuwen Liu, Yingyi Zhao, Shuli Chen, Timothy C. Bonebrake, Jin Wu
Fundamental Research  ·  06 Feb 2024  ·  doi:10.1016/j.fmre.2023.12.011
Constraining long‐term model predictions for woody growth using tropical tree rings
Constraining long‐term model predictions for woody growth using tropical tree rings
Xiangtao Xu, Peter van der Sleen, Peter Groenendijk, Mart Vlam, David Medvigy, Paul Moorcroft, Daniel Petticord, Yixin Ma, Pieter A. Zuidema
Global Change Biology  ·  01 Jan 2024  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.17075
ed2

2023

Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling
Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling
Donghai Wu, Steven M. Grodsky, Wenfang Xu, Naijing Liu, Rafael M. Almeida, …, Geng Xia, Anurag A. Agrawal, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Alexander S. Flecker, Xiangtao Xu
Science Bulletin  ·  19 Dec 2023  ·  doi:10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.016
Exploring the impacts of unprecedented climate extremes on forest ecosystems: hypotheses to guide modeling and experimental studies
Exploring the impacts of unprecedented climate extremes on forest ecosystems: hypotheses to guide modeling and experimental studies
Jennifer A. Holm, David M. Medvigy, Benjamin Smith, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Claus Beier, …, Yiqi Luo, Cari Ficken, William T. Pockman, William R. L. Anderegg, Anja Rammig
Biogeosciences  ·  14 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.5194/bg-20-2117-2023
drought tree-mortality ed2
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology
Xi Yang, Rong Li, Andrew Jablonski, Atticus Stovall, Jongmin Kim, …, Daniel Beverly, Richard Phillips, Kim Novick, Xiangtao Xu, Manuel Lerdau
Ecology Letters  ·  20 Apr 2023  ·  doi:10.1111/ele.14215
functional-ecology tls
Leaf economics fundamentals explained by optimality principles
Leaf economics fundamentals explained by optimality principles
Han Wang, I. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, David I. Warton, Shengchao Qiao, Xiangtao Xu, Jian Zhou, Kihachiro Kikuzawa, Nils Chr. Stenseth
Science Advances  ·  18 Jan 2023  ·  doi:10.1126/sciadv.add5667
functional-ecology eco-evo-optimality

2022

Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought
Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought
Donghai Wu, German Vargas G., Jennifer S. Powers, Nate G. McDowell, Justin M. Becknell, …, Gabriel G. Katul, Julio César Calvo‐Alvarado, Ana Calvo‐Obando, Arturo Sanchez‐Azofeifa, Xiangtao Xu
Global Change Biology  ·  01 Mar 2022  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.16046
remote-sensing tree-mortality

2021

Plant input does not exert stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence than climate in alpine grasslands
Plant input does not exert stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence than climate in alpine grasslands
Donghai Wu, Xiangtao Xu, Haicheng Zhang
Ecology Letters  ·  12 Sep 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/ele.13879
soil-carbon-turnover
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Alexandra G. Konings, Sassan S. Saatchi, Christian Frankenberg, Michael Keller, Victor Leshyk, …, Yujie Wang, Richard Wehr, Jeffrey D. Wood, Xiangtao Xu, Pieter A. Zuidema
Global Change Biology  ·  03 Sep 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.15872
tree-mortality remote-sensing
Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host–microbe ecology and evolution
Natural experiments and long-term monitoring are critical to understand and predict marine host–microbe ecology and evolution
Matthieu Leray, Laetitia G. E. Wilkins, Amy Apprill, Holly M. Bik, Friederike Clever, …, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Elin Videvall, William T. Wcislo, Benedict Yuen, Jonathan A. Eisen
PLOS Biology  ·  19 Aug 2021  ·  doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001322
marine-ecology
Leaf surface water, not plant water stress, drives diurnal variation in tropical forest canopy water content
Leaf surface water, not plant water stress, drives diurnal variation in tropical forest canopy water content
Xiangtao Xu, Alexandra G. Konings, Marcos Longo, Andrew Feldman, Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi, Donghai Wu, Jin Wu, Paul Moorcroft
New Phytologist  ·  01 Jun 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/nph.17254
remote-sensing tropical-ecology ed2
Recovery: Fast and Slow—Vegetation Response During the 2012–2016 California Drought
Recovery: Fast and Slow—Vegetation Response During the 2012–2016 California Drought
Xi Yang, Xiangtao Xu, Atticus Stovall, Min Chen, Jung‐Eun Lee
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences  ·  01 Apr 2021  ·  doi:10.1029/2020JG005976
remote-sensing tree-mortality
Unraveling the relative role of light and water competition between lianas and trees in tropical forests: A vegetation model analysis
Unraveling the relative role of light and water competition between lianas and trees in tropical forests: A vegetation model analysis
Félicien Meunier, Hans Verbeeck, Betsy Cowdery, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Chris M. Smith‐Martin, …, Matteo Detto, Damien Bonal, Marcos Longo, Louis S. Santiago, Michael Dietze
Journal of Ecology  ·  03 Mar 2021  ·  doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13540
ed2 tropical-ecology
Monitoring tree-crown scale autumn leaf phenology in a temperate forest with an integration of PlanetScope and drone remote sensing observations
Monitoring tree-crown scale autumn leaf phenology in a temperate forest with an integration of PlanetScope and drone remote sensing observations
Shengbiao Wu, Jing Wang, Zhengbing Yan, Guangqin Song, Yang Chen, …, Xiangtao Xu, Xi Yang, Yanjun Su, Lingli Liu, Jin Wu
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing  ·  15 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.10.017
phenology remote-sensing
Trait-Based Modeling of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Advances and Challenges Under Global Change
Trait-Based Modeling of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Advances and Challenges Under Global Change
Xiangtao Xu, Anna T. Trugman
Current Climate Change Reports  ·  12 Jan 2021  ·  doi:10.1007/s40641-020-00168-6
review

2020

Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers
Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers
Donghai Wu, Shilong Piao, Dan Zhu, Xuhui Wang, Philippe Ciais, Ana Bastos, Xiangtao Xu, Wenfang Xu
Global Change Biology  ·  30 Aug 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.15224
carbon-turnover
Optimal leaf life strategies determine <i>V</i><sub>c,max</sub> dynamic during ontogeny
Optimal leaf life strategies determine Vc,max dynamic during ontogeny
Matteo Detto, Xiangtao Xu
New Phytologist  ·  22 Jun 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/nph.16712
phenology optimality-principles
A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species
A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species
Jennifer S. Powers, German Vargas G., Timothy J. Brodribb, Naomi B. Schwartz, Daniel Pérez‐Aviles, …, Evin Murillo Chacon, Colleen M. Schaffner, Leland K. Werden, Xiangtao Xu, David Medvigy
Global Change Biology  ·  23 Mar 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/gcb.15037
tropical-ecology tree-mortality
Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees
Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees
Chris M. Smith‐Martin, Xiangtao Xu, David Medvigy, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Jennifer S. Powers
New Phytologist  ·  24 Jan 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/nph.16275
tropical-ecology allometry root ed2

2019

Tropical carbon sink accelerated by symbiotic dinitrogen fixation
Tropical carbon sink accelerated by symbiotic dinitrogen fixation
Jennifer H. Levy-Varon, Sarah A. Batterman, David Medvigy, Xiangtao Xu, Jefferson S. Hall, Michiel van Breugel, Lars O. Hedin
Nature Communications  ·  02 Dec 2019  ·  doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13656-7
tropical-ecology nitrogen-fixation ed2