Dr. Chi Chen conducts research on the broad area of monitoring and modeling vegetation and ecosystem dynamics. His work combines remote sensing, ground-based observations, and earth system models to better comprehend the ways in which the terrestrial biosphere interacts with global changes. A key focus is to examine the effects of natural and human-caused drivers of ecosystem dynamics and their climate feedbacks.
Recent Publications:
1. Chen, C.*, Riley, W. J., Prentice, I. C., Keenan, T. F*. (2022). CO 2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(10), e2115627119, https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2115627119 [PDF][Supp]
2. Chen, C.*, Li, D., Keenan, T. F. (2021). Enhanced surface urban heat islands due to divergent urban-rural greening trends, Environmental Research Letters. 16(12), p.124071. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac36f8 [PDF][Supp1][Supp2]
3. Chen, C.*, Li, D.*, Li, Y., Piao, S., Wang, X., Huang, M., Gentine, P., Nemani, R. R., & Myneni, R.B. (2020). Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance, Science Advances, 6(47), eabb1981. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb1981 [PDF] [Supp]
4. Chen, C.*, Wang, L., Myneni, R. B., & Li, D*. (2020). Attribution of land-use/land-cover change induced surface temperature anomaly: How accurate is the first-order Taylor series expansion? Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125, e2020JG005787. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005787 [PDF] [Supp]
5. Chen, C.*, Park, T., Wang, X., Piao, S., Xu, B., Chaturvedi, R. K., Fuchs, R., Brovkin, V., Ciais, P., Fensholt, R., Tømmervik, H., Bala, G., Zhu, Z., Nemani, R. R. & Myneni, R. B. (2019). China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management. Nature Sustainability, 2,122–129. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7 [PDF] [Supp]
6. Piao, S.*, Wang, X., Park, T., Chen, C., Lian, X., He, Y., Bjerke, J. W., Chen, A., Ciais, P., Tømmervik, H., Nemani, R. R. & Myneni, R. B. (2019). Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 359(1763), 716 14. http://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0001-x [PDF] [Supp]
7. Park, T.*, Chen, C., Macias-Fauria, M., Tømmervik, H., Choi, S., Winkler, A., Bhatt, U. S., Walker, D. A., Piao, S., Brovkin, V., Nemani, R. R. & Myneni, R. B. (2019). Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 259(4), 660–14. http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14638 [PDF] [Supp]
8. Chen, C.*, Knyazikhin, Y., Park, T., Yan, K., Lyapustin, A., Wang, Y., Yang, B. & Myneni, R. B. (2017). Prototyping of LAI and FPAR Algorithm with MODIS MultiAngle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) data. Remote Sensing, 9(4), 370. http://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040370 [PDF] [Supp]
