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36
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4999
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7139
National Ranking
142

Overview

Changliang Shao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China. Their research spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in various subfields and topics related to ecosystems, climate variability, and vegetation dynamics.

The scientist's work covers prominent areas including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Shao has a relevant presence in several subfields of study such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Plant Science.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Shao include:

  • Jiquan Chen
  • Gang Dong
  • Linghao Li
  • Xingguo Han
  • Wenhao Zhang

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues, with frequent publications in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecological Processes
  • Environmental Research Letters

Among Shao's recent papers are:

  • Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • A Review on the Adoption of AI, BC, and IoT in Sustainability Research, 2022, Sustainability
  • Afforestation increases ecosystem productivity and carbon storage in China during the 2000s, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Autumn Phenology and Its Covariation with Climate, Spring Phenology and Annual Peak Growth on the Mongolian Plateau, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Climate Change Dominated Long-Term Soil Carbon Losses of Inner Mongolian Grasslands, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Changliang Shao has also contributed to book literature, with a publication titled Grassland Ecosystems of China (2020) by Springer Nature.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Applications of structural equation modeling (SEM) in ecological studies: an updated review

    Yi Fan;Jiquan Chen;Gabriela Shirkey;Ranjeet John

  • Carbon fluxes, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Jingfeng Xiao;Ge Sun;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Hui Chen

  • Grassland canopy cover and aboveground biomass in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia: Spatiotemporal estimates and controlling factors

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Vincenzo Giannico;Vincenzo Giannico;Hogeun Park

  • Differentiating anthropogenic modification and precipitation-driven change on vegetation productivity on the Mongolian Plateau

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Youngwook Kim;Zu tao Ou-yang

  • Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Yaoqi Zhang;Changliang Shao

  • Estimation of gross primary production over the terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Xianglan Li;Xianglan Li;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Guirui Yu;Wenping Yuan;Wenping Yuan

  • Grazing modulates soil temperature and moisture in a Eurasian steppe

    Yuchun Yan;Ruirui Yan;Jiquan Chen;Xiaoping Xin

  • Policy shifts influence the functional changes of the CNH systems on the Mongolian plateau

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Changliang Shao;Yi Fan

  • Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Ranjeet John;Ge Sun;Peilei Fan

  • Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale

    Alice S. A. Johnston;Alice S. A. Johnston;Andrew Meade;Jonas Ardö;Nicola Arriga

  • Grazing alters the biophysical regulation of carbon fluxes in a desert steppe

    Changliang Shao;Changliang Shao;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Linghao Li

  • Ten-year variability in ecosystem water use efficiency in an oak-dominated temperate forest under a warming climate

    Jing Xie;Jiquan Chen;Ge Sun;Tianshan Zha

  • Diurnal to annual changes in latent, sensible heat, and CO2 fluxes over a Laurentian Great Lake: A case study in Western Lake Erie

    Changliang Shao;Jiquan Chen;Carol A. Stepien;Housen Chu

  • Spatial variability in soil heat flux at three Inner Mongolia steppe ecosystems

    Changliang Shao;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Linghao Li;Wenting Xu

  • Climatic variability, hydrologic anomaly, and methane emission can turn productive freshwater marshes into net carbon sources

    Housen Chu;Johan F. Gottgens;Jiquan Chen;Ge Sun

  • A new framework for evaluating the impacts of drought on net primary productivity of grassland.

    Tianjie Lei;Jianjun Wu;Xiaohan Li;Guangpo Geng

  • Drought and Carbon Cycling of Grassland Ecosystems under Global Change: A Review

    Tianjie Lei;Zhiguo Pang;Xingyong Wang;Lin Li

  • Estimation of high-resolution terrestrial evapotranspiration from Landsat data using a simple Taylor skill fusion method

    Yunjun Yao;Shunlin Liang;Xianglan Li;Yuhu Zhang

  • Estimation of evapotranspiration over the terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Xianglan Li;Xianglan Li;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Wenping Yuan;Wenping Yuan;Guirui Yu

  • Afforestation increases ecosystem productivity and carbon storage in China during the 2000s

    Xu Yue;Tianyi Zhang;Changliang Shao

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Ranjeet John
Ranjeet John University of South Dakota
Linghao Li
Linghao Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Raffaele Lafortezza
Raffaele Lafortezza University of Bari Aldo Moro
Shunlin Liang
Shunlin Liang University of Hong Kong
Tomomichi Kato
Tomomichi Kato Hokkaido University
Jiaguo Qi
Jiaguo Qi Michigan State University
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shiping Chen
Shiping Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences

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