Xu-Hui Wang

Most-cited papers

Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates
Chuang Zhao, Bing Liu, S. Piao, Xu-Hui Wang +25 more
2017Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2,783 citations Open access
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Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world
Xu Lian, S. Piao, Anping Chen, C. Huntingford +12 more
2021Nature Reviews Earth & Environment624 citations Open access
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Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes
Meng-Tian Huang, S. Piao, P. Ciais, J. Peñuelas +22 more
2019Nature Ecology & Evolution561 citations Open access
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Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China
Yue Li, S. Piao, Laurent Z. X. Li, Anping Chen +8 more
2018Science Advances494 citations Open access
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Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models
Bernhard Schauberger, S. Archontoulis, A. Arneth, J. Balkovič +13 more
2017Nature Communications493 citations Open access
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Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
Xu Lian, S. Piao, Laurent Z. X. Li, Yue Li +15 more
2020Science Advances465 citations Open access
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Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change
L. Qiao, Xu-Hui Wang, Philip Smith, Jinlong Fan +17 more
2022Nature Climate Change331 citations
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Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought
Xiangyi Li, S. Piao, Kai Wang, Xu-Hui Wang +6 more
2020Nature Ecology & Evolution280 citations Open access
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Drought timing influences the legacy of tree growth recovery
Meng-Tian Huang, Xu-Hui Wang, T. Keenan, S. Piao
2018Global Change Biology240 citations Open access
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Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield
Xu-Hui Wang, C. Müller, Joshua Elliot, N. Mueller +18 more
2021Nature Communications235 citations Open access
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Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades
Jin Fu, Yi-Wei Jian, Xu-Hui Wang, Laurent Z. X. Li +15 more
2023Nature Food202 citations Open access
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Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation
Xiangyi Li, S. Piao, C. Huntingford, J. Peñuelas +9 more
2023National Science Review188 citations Open access
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Emergent constraint on crop yield response to warmer temperature from field experiments
Xu-Hui Wang, Chuang Zhao, C. Müller, Chen-Zhi Wang +9 more
2020Nature Sustainability179 citations Open access
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Responses of vegetation greenness and carbon cycle to extreme droughts in China
Ying Deng, Xu-Hui Wang, Kai Wang, P. Ciais +4 more
2021Agricultural and Forest Meteorology167 citations
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Plausible rice yield losses under future climate warming
Chuang Zhao, S. Piao, Xu-Hui Wang, Yao Huang +12 more
2016Nature Plants157 citations Open access
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Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance
Chi Chen, Dan Li, Yue Li, S. Piao +5 more
2020Science Advances144 citations Open access
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The size of the land carbon sink in China
Yi-Long Wang, Xu-Hui Wang, Kai Wang, F. Chevallier +8 more
2022Nature127 citations Open access
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Occurrence of crop pests and diseases has largely increased in China since 1970
Chen-Zhi Wang, Xu-Hui Wang, Zhe-Nong Jin, Christoph Müller +7 more
2021Nature Food126 citations Open access
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Assessing the Impacts of Extreme Agricultural Droughts in China Under Climate and Socioeconomic Changes
Chaoqing Yu, Xiao Huang, Han Chen, Guorui Huang +9 more
2018115 citations Open access
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Field warming experiments shed light on the wheat yield response to temperature in China
Chuang Zhao, S. Piao, Yao Huang, Xu-Hui Wang +4 more
2016Nature Communications94 citations Open access
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Three‐dimensional change in temperature sensitivity of northern vegetation phenology
Mengdi Gao, Xu-Hui Wang, F. Meng, Qiang Liu +3 more
2020Global Change Biology87 citations
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Regional and seasonal partitioning of water and temperature controls on global land carbon uptake variability
Kai Wang, A. Bastos, P. Ciais, Xu-Hui Wang +9 more
2022Nature Communications83 citations Open access
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Improved alternate wetting and drying irrigation increases global water productivity
Yan Bo, Xu-Hui Wang, K. V. van Groenigen, Bruce A. Linquist +6 more
2024Nature Food80 citations
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Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening
Shu-Chang Tang, Anouk Vlug, S. Piao, Fei Li +9 more
2023Nature Communications80 citations Open access
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Vegetation forcing modulates global land monsoon and water resources in a CO2-enriched climate
Jiang-Peng Cui, S. Piao, C. Huntingford, Xu-Hui Wang +4 more
2020Nature Communications74 citations Open access
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Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature
Yuxiang Zhang, Xu-Hui Wang, Xu Lian, Sien Li +3 more
2024Nature Geoscience62 citations
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Divergent seasonal responses of carbon fluxes to extreme droughts over China
Ying Deng, Xu-Hui Wang, Tong-Ping Lu, Haochun Du +2 more
2023Agricultural and Forest Meteorology61 citations
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China’s carbon sinks from land-use change underestimated
Ya-Kun Zhu, Xiaosheng Xia, J. Canadell, S. Piao +5 more
2025Nature Climate Change56 citations Open access
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Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers
Donghai Wu, S. Piao, Dan Zhu, Xu-Hui Wang +4 more
2020Global Change Biology56 citations
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Carbon gain in upper but loss in deeper cropland soils across China over the last four decades
Zhenghu Zhou, Chuan-Kuan Wang, Yu'e Li, Xu-Hui Wang +3 more
2024Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America54 citations Open access
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The critical benefits of snowpack insulation and snowmelt for winter wheat productivity
Peng Zhu, Taegon Kim, Zhe-Nong Jin, Chenxi Lin +7 more
2022Nature Climate Change47 citations
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Increasing riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from China
Yan-Zi Yan, R. Lauerwald, Xu-Hui Wang, P. Regnier +9 more
2023Global Change Biology44 citations
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Biophysical effects of croplands on land surface temperature
Chi Chen, Yang Li, Xu-Hui Wang, Xiangzhong Luo +3 more
2024Nature Communications38 citations Open access
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Divergent response of seasonally dry tropical vegetation to climatic variations in dry and wet seasons
Xu-Hui Wang, P. Ciais, Yi-Long Wang, Dan Zhu
2018Global Change Biology38 citations
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Inventory of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from freshwater aquaculture in China
Liang-Liang Zhang, Xu-Hui Wang, Ling Huang, Chen-Zhi Wang +4 more
2024Communications Earth & Environment37 citations Open access
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Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization.
J. M. Sarneel, M. Hefting, Taru Sandén, J. van den Hoogen +104 more
2024Ecology Letters35 citations Open access
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Comment on “Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis”
Yu-Xing Sang, Ling Huang, Xu-Hui Wang, T. Keenan +2 more
2021Science35 citations
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Amplified warming from physiological responses to carbon dioxide reduces the potential of vegetation for climate change mitigation
Mingzhu He, S. Piao, C. Huntingford, Hao Xu +4 more
2022Communications Earth & Environment34 citations Open access
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Substantially Enhanced Landscape Carbon Sink Due To Reduced Terrestrial‐Aquatic Carbon Transfer Through Soil Conservation in the Chinese Loess Plateau
L. Ran, Nufang Fang, Xu-Hui Wang, S. Piao +8 more
2023Earth's Future31 citations Open access
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Causes of slowing‐down seasonal CO2 amplitude at Mauna Loa
Kai Wang, Yi-Long Wang, Xu-Hui Wang, Yue He +22 more
2020Global Change Biology31 citations Open access
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Recent stabilization of agricultural non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in China
Yuanyi Gao, Zi-Meng Li, Song-Bai Hong, Li-Jun Yu +7 more
2025National Science Review30 citations Open access
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China's greenhouse gas budget during 2000–2023
Wenping Yuan, Minqi Liang, Yuanyi Gao, Ling Huang +27 more
2025National Science Review28 citations Open access
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Global Spectrum of Vegetation Light‐Use Efficiency
Mingzhu He, Shao-Yuan Chen, Xu Lian, Xu-Hui Wang +2 more
2022Geophysical Research Letters28 citations
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Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results
Yi Yao, A. Ducharne, Benjamin I. Cook, Steven J. De Hertog +29 more
2025Nature Communications27 citations Open access
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Large language models reveal big disparities in current wildfire research
Zheng-Yang Lin, Anping Chen, Xu-Hui Wang, Zhi-Hua Liu +1 more
2024Communications Earth & Environment27 citations Open access
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Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR6
S. Piao, Xu-Hui Wang
2023Global Change Biology27 citations Open access
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Slowdown in China's methane emission growth
Min Zhao, Xiang-Jun Tian, Yi-Long Wang, Xu-Hui Wang +6 more
2024National Science Review26 citations Open access
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Seasonal CO2 amplitude in northern high latitudes
Zhi-Hua Liu, B. Rogers, G. Keppel-Aleks, M. Helbig +34 more
2024Nature Reviews Earth & Environment25 citations Open access
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Data‐driven estimates of global litter production imply slower vegetation carbon turnover
Yue He, Xu-Hui Wang, Kai Wang, Shu-Chang Tang +6 more
2021Global Change Biology25 citations Open access
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Optimizing Lake Surface Water Temperature Simulations Over Large Lakes in China With FLake Model
Ling Huang, Xu-Hui Wang, Yu-Xing Sang, Shu-Chang Tang +7 more
2021Earth and Space Science22 citations Open access
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