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79
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886
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328

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Jingfeng Xiao is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work in the subfields of global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and plant science.

The scientist's research topics include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, urban heat island mitigation, and plant responses to elevated CO2.

Xiao has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit, 2023, Science
  • NIRv and SIF better estimate phenology than NDVI and EVI: Effects of spring and autumn phenology on ecosystem production of planted forests, 2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Emerging satellite observations for diurnal cycling of ecosystem processes, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning, 2022, Global Change Biology

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Xing Li, Yiping Wu, Weimin Ju, Xufeng Wang, and Jiquan Chen.

Jingfeng Xiao has published extensively in venues including Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, Global Change Biology, and Ecological Indicators.

Best Publications

  • Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Decheng Zhou;Jingfeng Xiao;Stefania Bonafoni;Christian Berger

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • A Global, 0.05-Degree Product of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Derived from OCO-2, MODIS, and Reanalysis Data

    Xing Li;Jingfeng Xiao

  • Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

    Jingfeng Xiao;Frederic Chevallier;Cecile Gomez;Luis Guanter

  • 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

  • Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations

    Xing Li;Xing Li;Jingfeng Xiao;Binbin He;M. Altaf Arain

  • A comparison of methods for estimating fractional green vegetation cover within a desert-to-upland transition zone in central New Mexico, USA

    Jingfeng Xiao;Aaron Moody

  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

    James B. Heffernan;James B. Heffernan;Patricia A. Soranno;Patricia A. Soranno;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael J. Angilletta;Lauren B. Buckley;Lauren B. Buckley

  • Mapping Photosynthesis Solely from Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence: A Global, Fine-Resolution Dataset of Gross Primary Production Derived from OCO-2

    Xing Li;Jingfeng Xiao

  • Estimation of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange for the Conterminous United States by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Beverly E. Law

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

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

  • Water use efficiency of China's terrestrial ecosystems and responses to drought.

    Yibo Liu;Jingfeng Xiao;Weimin Ju;Yanlian Zhou

  • Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency.

    Rossella Guerrieri;Rossella Guerrieri;Soumaya Belmecheri;Scott V. Ollinger;Heidi Asbjornsen

  • No trends in spring and autumn phenology during the global warming hiatus

    Xufeng Wang;Xufeng Wang;Jingfeng Xiao;Xin Li;Guodong Cheng;Guodong Cheng

  • The 2010 spring drought reduced primary productivity in southwestern China

    Li Zhang;Li Zhang;Jingfeng Xiao;Jing Li;Kun Wang

  • A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Jiquan Chen

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Ozone and haze pollution weakens net primary productivity in China

    Xu Yue;Nadine Unger;Kandice Harper;Xiangao Xia

  • Upscaling key ecosystem functions across the conterminous United States by a water‐centric ecosystem model

    Ge Sun;Peter Caldwell;Asko Noormets;Steven G. McNulty

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

    J. Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
David Y. Hollinger
David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service
Shuguang Liu
Shuguang Liu Central South University of Forestry and Technology
Asko Noormets
Asko Noormets Texas A&M University
Scott V. Ollinger
Scott V. Ollinger University of New Hampshire
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Qianlai Zhuang
Qianlai Zhuang Purdue University West Lafayette

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