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69
Citations
20257
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1426
National Ranking
32

Overview

Shuguang Liu is affiliated with the Central South University of Forestry and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as land use and ecosystem services, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, urban heat island mitigation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and tree-ring climate responses.

Among recent publications are:

  • Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982-2017 (2020), Earth System Science Data
  • Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning (2022), Global Change Biology
  • Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban-rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities (2021), Global Change Biology
  • Regional contributions to interannual variability of net primary production and climatic attributions (2021), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Projected soil organic carbon loss in response to climate warming and soil water content in a loess watershed (2021), Carbon Balance and Management

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shuailong Feng (20 co-authored works)
  • Yiping Wu (16 co-authored works)
  • Haiqiang Gao (16 co-authored works)
  • Shuqing Zhao (13 co-authored works)
  • Ying Ning (12 co-authored works)

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing (14 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (8 publications)
  • Sustainability (8 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Ecological Indicators (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

    Wenping Yuan;Yi Zheng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais

  • Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

    Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Shuguang Liu;Liangxia Zhang

  • Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guoyi Zhou

  • Old-growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils.

    Guoyi Zhou;Shuguang Liu;Zhian Li;Deqiang Zhang

  • Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu;Guirui Yu;Jean Marc Bonnefond

  • Mapping essential urban land use categories in China (EULUC-China): preliminary results for 2018

    Peng Gong;Bin Chen;Xuecao Li;Han Liu

  • 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

  • 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

  • Soil-atmospheric exchange of CO2, CH4, and N2O in three subtropical forest ecosystems in southern China

    Xuli Tang;Shuguang Liu;Guoyi Zhou;Deqiang Zhang

  • Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment

    Shuqing Zhao;Shuguang Liu;Decheng Zhou

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Comparison of satellite-based evapotranspiration models over terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Yang Chen;Jiangzhou Xia;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Jinming Feng;Jinming Feng

  • Modeling carbon dynamics in vegetation and soil under the impact of soil erosion and deposition

    Shuguang Liu;Norman Bliss;Eric Sundquist;Thomas G. Huntington

  • Seasonal patterns of litterfall in forest ecosystem worldwide

    Haicheng Zhang;Wenping Yuan;Wenjie Dong;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu

  • 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

  • Quantifying the hydrological responses to climate change in an intact forested small watershed in Southern China

    Guoyi Zhou;Xiaohua Wei;Yiping Wu;Shuguang Liu

  • Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities.

    Decheng Zhou;Decheng Zhou;Shuqing Zhao;Liangxia Zhang;Shuguang Liu

  • Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

    Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy;Tarek S. El-Madany;Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Pierre Gentine

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

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

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

    D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

    Y. Wei;S. Liu;D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak

  • Supporting Online Material for Old-Growth Forests Can Accumulate Carbon in Soils

    Guoyi Zhou;Shuguang Liu;Zhian Li;Deqiang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenping Yuan
Wenping Yuan Sun Yat-sen University
Shuqing Zhao
Shuqing Zhao Peking University
Larry L. Tieszen
Larry L. Tieszen United States Geological Survey
Shunlin Liang
Shunlin Liang University of Hong Kong
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Guoyi Zhou
Guoyi Zhou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Jingfeng Xiao
Jingfeng Xiao University of New Hampshire

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