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Environmental Sciences

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82
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28069
World Ranking
872
National Ranking
86

Biology and Biochemistry

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90
Citations
33585
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2416
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Overview

Tao Wang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics commonly focus on areas such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Change and Permafrost, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

The publication record includes contributions to multiple peer-reviewed journals and scientific outlets, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science Bulletin
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science China Earth Sciences

Several recent scientific papers illustrate the scope of their research, including:

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower (2022), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world (2021), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought (2020), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport (2022), Nature Geoscience
  • An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas (2022), Nature Ecology & Evolution

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Shilong Piao
  • Jinzhi Ding
  • Yilong Wang
  • Josep Peñuelas
  • Eryuan Liang

Best Publications

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Shilong Piao;Jingyun Fang;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Peylin

  • Single-Cell Analyses Inform Mechanisms of Myeloid-Targeted Therapies in Colon Cancer.

    Lei Zhang;Ziyi Li;Katarzyna M. Skrzypczynska;Qiao Fang

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Changes in satellite-derived vegetation growth trend in temperate and boreal Eurasia from 1982 to 2006

    Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Philippe Ciais;Biao Zhu

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • The draft genome of the fast-growing non-timber forest species moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla)

    Zhenhua Peng;Ying Lu;Lubin Li;Qiang Zhao

  • Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Liming Zhou

  • Transcriptional Regulation of the Warburg Effect in Cancer by SIX1.

    Ling Li;Yingchun Liang;Lei Kang;Yang Liu

  • Predicting phosphorus bioavailability from high-ash biochars

    Tao Wang;Marta Camps-Arbestain;Mike Hedley;Peter Bishop

  • A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

    Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Changes in satellite‐derived spring vegetation green‐up date and its linkage to climate in China from 1982 to 2010: a multimethod analysis

    Nan Cong;Tao Wang;Huijuan Nan;Yuecun Ma

  • Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost

    Qiang Liu;Shilong Piao;Ivan A. Janssens;Yongshuo H. Fu

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in different ecosystems in China

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Tao Wang;Jinyu Sun

  • Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Chris Huntingford;Yue Li

  • Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations

    Madeline H Kowalski;Huijun Qian;Ziyi Hou;Jonathan D Rosen

  • Impacts of climate and CO2 changes on the vegetation growth and carbon balance of Qinghai-Tibetan grasslands over the past five decades

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Kun Tan;Huijuan Nan;Philippe Ciais

  • The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing

    Bengang G. Li;Thomas Gasser;Philippe Ciais;Shilong L. Piao;Shilong L. Piao

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Robert C. Kaplan
Robert C. Kaplan Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Dan Liu
Dan Liu Deakin University
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Catherine Ottlé
Catherine Ottlé Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp

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