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Overview

Miaogen Shen is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in environmental science with a focus on ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering. Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics in remote sensing, plant water relations, carbon dynamics, species distribution in the context of climate change, land use, ecosystem services, and vegetation dynamics.

Their research topics include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses

Miaogen Shen has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Ecological Indicators, and Global Change Biology.

Some of the recent papers associated with or including Miaogen Shen as an author are:

  • Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • The superiority of the normalized difference phenology index (NDPI) for estimating grassland aboveground fresh biomass, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Miaogen Shen often collaborates with researchers such as Jin Chen, Nan Jiang, Ruyin Cao, Xuehong Chen, and Xiaolin Zhu, with collaboration counts ranging from 13 to 27 joint publications. This reflects a consistent network of coauthors contributing to ecological and environmental research.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

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

  • Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

    Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Nan Cong;Gengxin Zhang

  • Influences of temperature and precipitation before the growing season on spring phenology in grasslands of the central and eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Miaogen Shen;Yanhong Tang;Jin Chen;Xiaolin Zhu

  • Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Miaogen Shen;Gengxin Zhang;Nan Cong;Shiping Wang

  • Emerging opportunities and challenges in phenology: a review

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

  • A simple method to improve the quality of NDVI time-series data by integrating spatiotemporal information with the Savitzky-Golay filter

    Ruyin Cao;Yang Chen;Miaogen Shen;Jin Chen

  • Strong impacts of daily minimum temperature on the green-up date and summer greenness of the Tibetan Plateau.

    Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xiaoqiu Chen;Shuai An

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of gross primary productivity and its covariation with climate in China over the last thirty years.

    Yitong Yao;Xuhui Wang;Yue Li;Tao Wang

  • An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

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  • Plant phenological responses to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: research status and challenges

    Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Tsechoe Dorji;Qiang Liu

  • Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming

    Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyue Wang;Huanjiong Wang;Philippe Ciais

  • Changes in autumn vegetation dormancy onset date and the climate controls across temperate ecosystems in China from 1982 to 2010

    Yuting Yang;Huade Guan;Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Wei Liang

  • The mixed pixel effect in land surface phenology: A simulation study

    Xiang Chen;Xiang Chen;Dawei Wang;Jin Chen;Cong Wang

  • Estimating aboveground biomass of grassland having a high canopy cover: an exploratory analysis of in situ hyperspectral data.

    Jin Chen;Song Gu;Miaogen Shen;Yanhong Tang

  • An improved logistic method for detecting spring vegetation phenology in grasslands from MODIS EVI time-series data

    Ruyin Cao;Jin Chen;Miaogen Shen;Yanhong Tang

  • No evidence of continuously advanced green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau over the last decade

    Miaogen Shen;Zhenzhong Sun;Shiping Wang;Gengxin Zhang

  • Earlier-Season Vegetation Has Greater Temperature Sensitivity of Spring Phenology in Northern Hemisphere

    Miaogen Shen;Yanhong Tang;Jin Chen;Xi Yang

  • Varying responses of vegetation activity to climate changes on the Tibetan Plateau grassland.

    Nan Cong;Miaogen Shen;Miaogen Shen;Wei Yang;Zhiyong Yang

  • Asymmetric sensitivity of first flowering date to warming and cooling in alpine plants

    S. P. Wang;F. D. Meng;J. C. Duan;Y. F. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Jin Chen
Jin Chen Beijing Normal University
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Xiaolin Zhu
Xiaolin Zhu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Shiping Wang
Shiping Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yongshuo H. Fu
Yongshuo H. Fu Beijing Normal University
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingguo Ma
Mingguo Ma Southwest University

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