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Plant Science and Agronomy

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62
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1081
National Ranking
84

Ecology and Evolution

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72
Citations
20474
World Ranking
1236
National Ranking
26

Overview

Jianwu Tang is affiliated with East China Normal University in China and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is focused primarily on several subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Jianwu Tang has published papers in a number of prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Ecological Indicators

Selected recent publications include:

  • Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change, 2020, National Science Review
  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change, 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • Comparison of total emitted solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and top-of-canopy (TOC) SIF in estimating photosynthesis, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Coastal blue carbon in China as a nature-based solution toward carbon neutrality, 2023, The Innovation
  • Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Jianwu Tang frequently collaborates with several co-authors who also contribute to similar research areas. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Faming Wang
  • Xiuzhen Li
  • Ying Huang
  • Ned Fetcher
  • Michael L. Moody

Best Publications

  • Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

    I.A. Janssens;W. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;J.-A. Subke

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • How soil moisture, rain pulses, and growth alter the response of ecosystem respiration to temperature

    Liukang Xu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Jianwu Tang

  • Tree photosynthesis modulates soil respiration on a diurnal time scale.

    Jianwu Tang;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Liukang Xu

  • Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence that correlates with canopy photosynthesis on diurnal and seasonal scales in a temperate deciduous forest

    Xi Yang;Xi Yang;Jianwu Tang;Jianwu Tang;John F. Mustard;Jung-Eun Lee

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Spatial–temporal variation in soil respiration in an oak–grass savanna ecosystem in California and its partitioning into autotrophic and heterotrophic components

    Jianwu Tang;Jianwu Tang;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Assessing soil CO2 efflux using continuous measurements of CO2 profiles in soils with small solid-state sensors

    Jianwu Tang;Dennis D Baldocchi;Ye Qi;Liukang Xu

  • Emerging opportunities and challenges in phenology: a review

    Jianwu Tang;Christian Körner;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration

    Xin Wang;Lingli Liu;Shilong Piao;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change.

    Faming Wang;Faming Wang;Christian J Sanders;Christian J Sanders;Isaac R Santos;Isaac R Santos;Jianwu Tang

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Shuli Niu;Aimée T. Classen;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Paul Kardol

  • Model-based analysis of the relationship between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production for remote sensing applications

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol

  • Forest thinning and soil respiration in a ponderosa pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada

    Jianwu Tang;Ye Qi;Ming Xu;Laurent Misson

  • Ecosystem‐level controls on root‐rhizosphere respiration

    Francesca Hopkins;Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler;Charles E. Flower;Douglas J. Lynch

  • Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling

    Ankur R. Desai;Asko Noormets;Paul V. Bolstad;Jiquan Chen

  • Restoring tides to reduce methane emissions in impounded wetlands: A new and potent Blue Carbon climate change intervention

    Kevin D. Kroeger;Stephen Crooks;Serena M. Moseman-Valtierra;Jianwu Tang

  • How switches and lags in biophysical regulators affect spatial-temporal variation of soil respiration in an oak-grass savanna

    Dennis Baldocchi;Jianwu Tang;Jianwu Tang;Liukang Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Misson
Laurent Misson Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Ned Fetcher
Ned Fetcher Wilkes University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Christian J. Sanders
Christian J. Sanders Southern Cross University
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory
Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Vargas University of Delaware

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