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68
Citations
25485
World Ranking
1498
National Ranking
546

Overview

Anping Chen is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The scientist has published extensively in the following frequent venues:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Growth and Change
  • Science Advances

Key subfields of Anping Chen's work include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Recent publications by Anping Chen include:

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Divergent responses of soil organic carbon to afforestation, 2020, Nature Sustainability

Frequent collaborators of Anping Chen include the following researchers:

  • Shilong Piao
  • Shizhong Zheng
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Josep Peñuelas
  • Jiangjuan Shao

Best Publications

  • Changes in Forest Biomass Carbon Storage in China Between 1949 and 1998

    Jingyun Fang;Anping Chen;Changhui Peng;Shuqing Zhao

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Qiang Liu;Anping Chen;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Taejin Park;Taejin Park;Chi Chen

  • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Peylin

  • Terrestrial vegetation carbon sinks in China, 1981― 2000

    JingYun Fang;ZhaoDi Guo;ShiLong Piao;AnPing Chen

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

    Xiaoping Liu;Yinghuai Huang;Xiaocong Xu;Xuecao Li

  • Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Junsheng Li

  • Altitude and temperature dependence of change in the spring vegetation green-up date from 1982 to 2006 in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

    Shilong Piao;Mengdi Cui;Anping Chen;Xuhui Wang

  • Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

    Shilong Piao;Jianguang Tan;Anping Chen;Yongshuo H. Fu

  • Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

    Yue Li;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Anping Chen

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China

    Shushi Peng;Anping Chen;Liang Xu;Chunxiang Cao

  • The impact of the 2009/2010 drought on vegetation growth and terrestrial carbon balance in Southwest China

    Xiangyi Li;Yue Li;Anping Chen;Mengdi Gao

  • Spring vegetation green-up date in China inferred from SPOT NDVI data: A multiple model analysis

    Nan Cong;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Xuhui Wang

  • Effect of climate and CO2 changes on the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the past two decades

    Shilong Piao;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Liming Zhou

  • Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Lyndon Estes;Alan D. Ziegler;Anping Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Laurent Li
Laurent Li École Normale Supérieure
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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