Zaichun Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6819619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zaichun Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zaichun |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5235-5194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is jointly controlled by the structural and physiological properties of the vegetation canopy and the changing environment. Recent studies showed notable changes in global GPP during recent decades and attributed it to dramatic environmental changes. Environmental changes can affect GPP by altering not only the biogeochemical characteristics of the photosynthesis system (direct effects) but also the structure of t…
Landscape ecological risk assessment of Chinese coastal cities based on land use change
Vegetation biomass change in China in the 20th century: An assessment based on a combination of multi-model simulations and field observations
Vegetation biomass is a key and active component of the carbon cycle. Though China’s vegetation biomass in recent decades has been widely investigated, only two studies have quantitatively assessed its century-scale changes so far and reported totally opposite trends. This study provided the first multi-model estimates of China’s vegetation biomass change for the 20th century and its responses to historical changes in environmental and anthropoge…
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates
Significance Agricultural production is vulnerable to climate change. Understanding climate change, especially the temperature impacts, is critical if policymakers, agriculturalists, and crop breeders are to ensure global food security. Our study, by compiling extensive published results from four analytical methods, shows that independent methods consistently estimated negative temperature impacts on yields of four major crops at the global scal…
Was the extreme Northern Hemisphere greening in 2015 predictable
The year 2015 was, at the time, the warmest since 1880, and many regions in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) registered record breaking annual temperatures. Simultaneously, a remarkable and widespread growing season greening was observed over most of the NH in the record from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). While the response of vegetation to climate change (i.e. the long term t…
Responses of land evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening in CMIP5 Earth System Models
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends
We examined natural and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) changes from 1982 to 2010 using multiple estimates from remote sensing-based datasets and process-oriented land surface models. A significant increasing trend of ET in each hemisphere was consistently revealed by observationally-constrained data and multi-model ensembles that considered historic natural and anthropogenic drivers. The climate impacts were simulat…
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends
We examined natural and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) changes from 1982 to 2010 using multiple estimates from remote sensing-based datasets and process-oriented land surface models. A significant increasing trend of ET in each hemisphere was consistently revealed by observationally-constrained data and multi-model ensembles that considered historic natural and anthropogenic drivers. The climate impacts were simulat…
Responses of land evapotranspiration to Earth’s greening in CMIP5 Earth System Models
Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates
Significance Agricultural production is vulnerable to climate change. Understanding climate change, especially the temperature impacts, is critical if policymakers, agriculturalists, and crop breeders are to ensure global food security. Our study, by compiling extensive published results from four analytical methods, shows that independent methods consistently estimated negative temperature impacts on yields of four major crops at the global scal…
Was the extreme Northern Hemisphere greening in 2015 predictable
The year 2015 was, at the time, the warmest since 1880, and many regions in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) registered record breaking annual temperatures. Simultaneously, a remarkable and widespread growing season greening was observed over most of the NH in the record from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). While the response of vegetation to climate change (i.e. the long term t…
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Landscape ecological risk assessment of Chinese coastal cities based on land use change
Vegetation biomass change in China in the 20th century: An assessment based on a combination of multi-model simulations and field observations
Vegetation biomass is a key and active component of the carbon cycle. Though China’s vegetation biomass in recent decades has been widely investigated, only two studies have quantitatively assessed its century-scale changes so far and reported totally opposite trends. This study provided the first multi-model estimates of China’s vegetation biomass change for the 20th century and its responses to historical changes in environmental and anthropoge…
The direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is jointly controlled by the structural and physiological properties of the vegetation canopy and the changing environment. Recent studies showed notable changes in global GPP during recent decades and attributed it to dramatic environmental changes. Environmental changes can affect GPP by altering not only the biogeochemical characteristics of the photosynthesis system (direct effects) but also the structure of t…
Environmental Science (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Atmospheric sciences (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Climatology (4 works) · Land use (4 works) · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 works) · Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 works) · Vegetation (pathology (4 works)