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Overview

Lianhong Gu is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science, particularly addressing topics within global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, molecular biology, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The main areas of study in Lianhong Gu's work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant responses to elevated CO2, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, and land use and ecosystem services.

They have published extensively in several scientific venues with a concentration of articles in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • New Phytologist

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ying Sun, Jimei Han, Jeffrey D. Wood, C. Y. Chang, and Jiaming Wen, with multiple joint publications indicating ongoing scientific partnerships.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Lianhong Gu include:

  • "Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2," published in 2020 in New Phytologist
  • "Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming," published in 2021 in Global Change Biology
  • "Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global-scale variations," published in 2020 in Global Change Biology
  • "Systematic Assessment of Retrieval Methods for Canopy Far-Red Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Using High-Frequency Automated Field Spectroscopy," published in 2020 in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "From remotely sensed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I-Harnessing theory," published in 2023 in Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Advantages of diffuse radiation for terrestrial ecosystem productivity

    Lianhong Gu;Dennis Baldocchi;Shashi B. Verma;T. A. Black

  • Response of a deciduous forest to the Mount Pinatubo eruption: enhanced photosynthesis.

    Lianhong Gu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Steve C. Wofsy;J. William Munger

  • Biogenic Hydrocarbons in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Review

    J. D. Fuentes;M. Lerdau;R. Atkinson;D. Baldocchi

  • The 2007 Eastern US Spring Freeze: Increased Cold Damage in a Warming World

    Lianhong Gu;Paul J. Hanson;W. Mac Post;Dale P. Kaiser

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • OCO-2 advances photosynthesis observation from space via solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Y. Sun;C. Frankenberg;J. D. Wood;D. S. Schimel

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Andrew P. Beckerman;Lianhong Gu;Jens Kattge

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • The seasonal cycle of satellite chlorophyll fluorescence observations and its relationship to vegetation phenology and ecosystem atmosphere carbon exchange

    J. Joiner;Y. Yoshida;Ap. Vasilkov;K. Schaefer

  • Responses of net ecosystem exchanges of carbon dioxide to changes in cloudiness: Results from two North American deciduous forests

    Lianhong Gu;Jose D. Fuentes;Herman H. Shugart;Ralf M. Staebler

  • Objective threshold determination for nighttime eddy flux filtering

    Lianhong Gu;Eva M. Falge;Tom Boden;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • 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

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • The MODIS (Collection V005) BRDF/albedo product: Assessment of spatial representativeness over forested landscapes

    Miguel O. Román;Miguel O. Román;Crystal B. Schaaf;Curtis E. Woodcock;Alan H. Strahler

  • Drought onset mechanisms revealed by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from two contrasting extreme events

    Ying Sun;Rong Fu;Robert Dickinson;Joanna Joiner

  • How the environment, canopy structure and canopy physiological functioning influence carbon, water and energy fluxes of a temperate broad-leaved deciduous forest--an assessment with the biophysical model CANOAK.

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;Kell B. Wilson;Lianhong Gu

  • The Great 2008 Chinese Ice Storm: Its Socioeconomic–Ecological Impact and Sustainability Lessons Learned

    Benzhi Zhou;Lianhong Gu;Yihui Ding;Lan Shao

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Pallardy
Stephen G. Pallardy University of Missouri
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Tilden P. Meyers
Tilden P. Meyers National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
David Y. Hollinger
David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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