General

Wenfang Xu

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

Email: wfxu@scbg.ac.cn


Research Areas

The impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystem carbon and water cycle processes

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-2760

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wenfang-Xu

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IfBaYC4AAAAJ


Publications

1.        Xu WF, Xia XS, Piao SL, Wu DH, Li WB, Yang S, Yuan WP*. 2024. Weakened increase in global near-surface water vapor pressure during the last 20 years. Geophysical Research Letters. 51, e2023GL107909.

2.        Xu WF, Yuan WP*, Wu DH, Zhang Y., Shen RQ, Xia XS, Ciais P., Liu JX. 2024. Impacts of record-breaking compound heatwave and drought events in 2022 China on vegetation growth. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 344, 109799.

3.        Wu DH*, #, Grodsky S. M#., Xu WF#, Liu NJ#, Almeida R.M., Zhou LM, Miller L.M., Baidya Roy, S., Xia G, Agrawal A.A., Houlton B.Z., Flecker A.S., Xu XT*. 2023. Observed impacts of large wind farms on grassland carbon cycling, Science Bulletin, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.016.

4.        Song CQ#, Xu WF#, Li SH, Liu H, Chu CJ, He B, Chen XZ, Piao SL, Lu HB, Ma MN, Yuan WP*. 2023. Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist tropical forest. Functional Ecology, 37(11), 2927-2939.

5.        Xu WF, He Y*. 2023. Statistical traps lurk in the research of soil carbon dynamics. Global Change Biology, 00:1-3. 

6.        Xu WF*, Chang JF, Ciais P., Guenet B., Viovy N., Ito A., Reyer C.P.O., Tian HQ, Shi H, Frieler K., Forrest M., Ostberg S., Schaphoff S., Hickler T. 2020. Reducing uncertainties of future global soil carbon responses to climate and land use change with emergent constraints. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(10), e2020GB006589.

7.        Xu WF, Yuan WP*, Cui LL, Ma MN, Zhang FG. 2019. Responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming depend on the natural warming gradient. Geoderma, 343:10-18.

8.        Xu WF and Yuan WP*. 2017. Responses of microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen to experimental warming: A meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 115: 265-274.

9.        Xu WF, Ma LJ, Ma MN, Zhang HC, Yuan WP*. 2017. Spatial-temporal variability of snow cover and depth in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Climate, 30(4): 1521-1533.

10.     Xu WF, Ma HQ, Wu DH, Yuan WP*. 2017. Assessment of the Daily Cloud-Free MODIS Snow-Cover Product for Monitoring the Snow-Cover Phenology over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 9(6): 585.

11.     Xu WF, Li XL, Liu W, Li LH, Hou LY, Shi HQ, Xia JZ, Liu D, Zhang HC, Chen Y, Cai WW, Fu Y, Yuan WP*. 2016. Spatial patterns of soil and ecosystem respiration regulated by biological and environmental variables along a precipitation gradient in semi-arid grasslands in China. Ecological Research, 31(4): 505-513.

12.     Xu WF, Yuan WP*, Dong WJ, Xia JZ, Liu D, Chen Y. 2013. A meta-analysis of the response of soil moisture to experimental warming. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4): 04402.