Research ArticleENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
- View ORCID ProfileXu Lian1,
- View ORCID ProfileShilong Piao1,2,3,*,
- View ORCID ProfileLaurent Z. X. Li4,
- View ORCID ProfileYue Li1,
- View ORCID ProfileChris Huntingford5,
- View ORCID ProfilePhilippe Ciais6,
- View ORCID ProfileAlessandro Cescatti7,
- View ORCID ProfileIvan A. Janssens8,
- View ORCID ProfileJosep Peñuelas9,10,
- View ORCID ProfileWolfgang Buermann11,12,
- View ORCID ProfileAnping Chen13,
- Xiangyi Li1,
- Ranga B. Myneni14,
- View ORCID ProfileXuhui Wang1,6,
- Yilong Wang6,
- View ORCID ProfileYuting Yang15,
- View ORCID ProfileZhenzhong Zeng1,
- View ORCID ProfileYongqiang Zhang16 and
- View ORCID ProfileTim R. McVicar17,18
- 1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
- 2Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
- 3Center for Excellence in Tibetan Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
- 4Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
- 5Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK.
- 6Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
- 7European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Sustainable Resources, I-21027 Ispra (Varese), Italy.
- 8Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk 2610, Belgium.
- 9CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Catalonia 08193, Spain.
- 10CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia 08193, Spain.
- 11Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
- 12Department of Geography, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany.
- 13Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 46907, USA.
- 14Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
- 15State Key Laboratory of Hydro-Science and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- 16Key Lab of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
- 17CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
- 18Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
- ↵*Corresponding author. Email: slpiao{at}pku.edu.cn
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Science Advances 03 Jan 2020:
Vol. 6, no. 1, eaax0255
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0255
Vol. 6, no. 1, eaax0255
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0255
Xu Lian
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Shilong Piao
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
2Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
3Center for Excellence in Tibetan Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
Laurent Z. X. Li
4Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Yue Li
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Chris Huntingford
5Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK.
Philippe Ciais
6Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
Alessandro Cescatti
7European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Sustainable Resources, I-21027 Ispra (Varese), Italy.
Ivan A. Janssens
8Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk 2610, Belgium.
Josep Peñuelas
9CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Catalonia 08193, Spain.
10CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia 08193, Spain.
Wolfgang Buermann
11Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
12Department of Geography, University of Augsburg, 86159 Augsburg, Germany.
Anping Chen
13Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 46907, USA.
Xiangyi Li
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Ranga B. Myneni
14Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Xuhui Wang
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
6Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
Yilong Wang
6Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
Yuting Yang
15State Key Laboratory of Hydro-Science and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhenzhong Zeng
1Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Yongqiang Zhang
16Key Lab of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Tim R. McVicar
17CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
18Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
