Our Publications

List of publications produced by the LEMONTREE project team:

(LEMONTREE members in bold)

Dec 2024

Evaluation of global fire simulations in CMIP6 Earth system models.

Li, F., Song, X., Harrison, S.P., Marlon, J.R., Lin, Z., Leung, L.R., Schwinger, J., Marécal, V., Wang, S., Ward, D.S.,
Dong, X., Lee, H., Nieradzik, L., Rabin, S.S., Séférian, R.

Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8751-2024 

Dec 2024

Exploring Optimal Complexity for Water Stress Representation in Terrestrial Carbon Models: A Hybrid‐Machine Learning Model Approach.

Fang, J., Gentine, P.

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, https://doi.org/10.1029/
2024MS004308

Nov 2024

Acclimation of Photosynthesis to CO2 Increases Ecosystem Carbon Storage due to Leaf Nitrogen Savings.

Smith, N.G., Zhu, Q., Keenan, T.F., Riley, W.J.

Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17558 

Oct 2024

Principles for satellite monitoring of vegetation carbon uptake.

Prentice, I.C., Balzarolo, M., Bloomfield, K.J., Chen J.M., Dechant, B., Ghent, D., Janssens, I.A., Luo, X., Morfopoulos, C., Ryu, Y., Vicca, S., van Hoolst, R.

Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00601-6 

Oct 2024

Empirical evidence and theoretical understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycle interactions.

Stocker, B.D., Dong, N., Perkowski, E.A., Schneider, P.D., Xu, H., de Boer, H.J., Rebel, K.T., Smith, N.G., Van Sundert, K., Wang, H., Jones, S.E., Prentice, I.C. and Harrison, S.P. 

New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20178

Sep 2024 Global patterns of plant functional traits and their relationships to climate.

Li, J., Prentice, I.C.

Communications Biology 7: 1136, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06777-3 

Sep 2024 Water deficit and storm disturbances co-regulate Amazon rainforest seasonality.

Lian, X., Morfopoulos, C., Gentine, P.

Science Advances 10: eadk5861, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5861

Sep 2024 The global drivers of wildfire.

Haas, O., Keeping, T., Gomez-Dans, J., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P.

Frontiers in Environmental Science 12: 1438262, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1438262

July 2024 GEOSIF: A continental-scale sub-daily reconstructed solar-induced fluorescence derived from OCO-3 and GK-2A over Eastern Asia and Oceania

Jeong, S., Ryu, Y., Lian, X., Dechant, B., Liu, J., Kong, J., Choi, W., Fang, J., Lian, X., Gentine, P.

Remote Sensing of Environment  311: 114284, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114284

July 2024 Persistent global greening over the last four decades using novel long-term
vegetation index data with enhanced temporal consistency.Jeong, S., Ryu, Y., Gentine, P., Lian, X., Fang, J., Li, X., Dechant, B., Kong, J., Choi, W., Jiang, C., Keenan, T.I., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C.Remote Sensing of Environment 311: 114282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114282
Jun 2024 Global critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress.

Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Wigneron, J-P., Gentine, P., Feldman, A.F., Makowski, D., Viovy, N., Kemanian, A.R., Goll, D.S., Stoy, P.C., Prentice, I.C., Yakir, D., Liu, L., Ma, H.,  Li, X., Huang, Y., Yu, K., Zhu, P., Li, X., Zhu, Z., Lian, J., Smith, W.K.

Nature Communications 15: 4826, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49244-7 

Jun 2024 Bomb radiocarbon evidence for strong global carbon uptake and turnover in terrestrial vegetation.

Graven, H.D., Warren, H., Gibbs, H.K., Khatiwala, S., Koven, C., Lester, J., Levin, I., Spawn-Lee, S.A., Wieder, W.

Science 384: 1335-1339, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl4443

May 2024 Using automated machine learning for the upscaling of gross primary productivity.

Gaber, M., Kang, Y., Schurgers, G., Keenan, T.

Biogeosciences 21: 2447-2472, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2447-2024

May 2024 Enhanced prediction of vegetation responses to extreme drought using deep learning and Earth observation data.

Kladny, K.-R., Milanta, M., Mraz, O., Hufkens, K., Stocker, B. D.

Ecological Informatics 80: 102474, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102474

May 2024 Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.2.0): calibration-free calculations of water and energy fluxes.

Sandoval, D., Prentice, I.C., Nobrega, R.

Geoscientific Model Development. 17: 4229-4309. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4229-2024

Apr 2024 Opportunities to improve our understanding of the impact of photosynthetic acclimation on terrestrial ecosystem processes under global change.

Smith, N.G.

American Journal of Botany 111: e16313, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16313

Apr 2024 Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models.

Flo, V., Joshi, J., Sabot, M., Sandoval, D., Prentice, I.C.

Plant, Cell and Environment 47: 3478-3493, https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14891

Apr 2024 INFERNO-peat v1.0.0: A representation of northern high latitude peat fires in the JULES-INFERNO global fire model.

Blackford, K.R., Kasoar, M., Burton, C., Burke, E., Prentice, C., Voulgarakis, A.

Geoscientific Model Development 17: 3063-3079, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3063-2024

Feb 2024 Modelling the daily probability of wildfire occurrence in the continguous United States.

Keeping, T., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C.

Environmental Research Letters 19: 024036, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad21b0

Feb 2024 Diminishing carryover benefits of earlier spring vegetation growth.

Lian, X., Penuelas, J., Ryu, Y., Piao, S., Keenan, T., Fang, J., Yu, K., Chen, A., Zhang, Y., Gentine, P.

Nature Ecology and Evolution 8: 218-228. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02272-w

Feb 2024 Mapping the global distribution of C4 vegetation using observations and optimality theory. 

Luo, X., Zhou, H., Satriawan, T.W., Tian, J., Zhao R., Keenan, T.F. Griffith, D.M., Sitch, S., Smith, N.G., Still, C.J.

Nature Communications 15: 1219. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45606-3

Feb 2024 Vegetation productivity slowdown on the Tibetan Plateau around the Late 1990s.

Ren, Y.H., Wang, H., Yang, K., Li, W., Hu, Z.M., Ma, Y.M., Qiao, S.C. 

Geophysical Research Letters 51: e2023GL103865 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103865

Jan 2024 Systematic underestimation of canopy conductance sensitivity to drought by Earth System Models.

Green, J.K., Zhang, Y., Luo, X, Keenan, T.F.

AGI Advances 5: e2023AV0001026. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001026

Nov 2023 A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2.

Keenan, T. F., Luo, X., Stocker, B. D., De Kauwe, M. G., Medlyn, B. E., Prentice, I. C., Smith, N. G., Terrer, C., Wang, H., Zhang, Y., Zhou, S.

Nature Climate Change 13: 1376-1381, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01867-2

Nov 2023 Leaf carbon and nitrogen stoichiometric variation along environmental gradients.

Xu, H., Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P.

Biogeosciences 20: 4511-4525, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4511-2023

Oct 2023 Global terrestrial nitrogen uptake and nitrogen use efficiency.

Peng, Y., Prentice, I.C., Bloomfield, K.J., Campioli, M., Guo, Z., Sun, Y., Tian, D., Wang, X., Vicca, S., Stocker, B.D.

Journal of Ecology 111: 2676–2693. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14208

Oct 2023 Reduced global plant respiration due to the acclimation of leaf dark respiration coupled with photosynthesis.

Ren, Y., Wang, H., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C., Atkin, O.K., Smith, N.G., Mengoli, G., Stefanski, A., Reich, P.B.

New Phytologist 241: 578-591, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19355

Sep 2023 The response of wildfire regimes to Last Glacial Maximum
carbon dioxide and climate.
Hass, O., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P.Biogeosciences 20: 3981-3995. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3981-2023
Sep 2023 Soil nitrogen fertilization reduces relative leaf nitrogen allocation to photosynthesis.

Waring, E.F., Perkowski, E.A., Smith, N.G.

Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 5166-5180. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad195

Aug 2023 Diagnosing evapotranspiration responses to water deficit across biomes using deep learning.

Giardina, F., Gentine, P., Koning, A.G., Seneviratines, S.I., Stocker, B.D.

New Phytologist. 240: 968-983, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19197

Aug 2023 Response of ecosystem productivity to high vapor pressure deficit and low soil moisture: Lessons learned from the global eddy-covariance observations.

Xu, S., Gentine, P., Li, L., Wang, L., Yu, Z., Dong, N., Ju, Q., Zhang, Y.

Earth’s Future. 11: e2022EF003252. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003252

Jul 2023 Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink.

Ruehr, S., Keenan, T.F., Williams, C., Zhou, Y., Lu, X., Bastos, A., Canadell, J.G., Prentice, I.C., Sitch, S., Terrer, C.

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4: 518–534 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00456-3

Jun 2023 Towards a universal evapotranspiration model based on optimality principles.

Tan, S., Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Yang,K., Nóbrega, R.L.B., Liu, X.M., Wang, Y., Yang, Y.T.

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 336, 109478, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109478

Apr 2023 Global leaf-trait mapping based on optimality theory.

Dong, N., Dechant, B., Wang, H., Wright, I.J., Prentice, I.C.

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 3211521162 https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13680

Apr 2023 Community abundance of resprouting in woody plants reflects fire return time, intensity, and type.

Shen, Y., Cai, W., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C.

Forests, 14, 878, https://doi.org/10.3390/f14050878

Jan 2023 Leaf economics explained by optimality principles.

Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Wright, I.J., Warton, D.I., Qiao, S., Xu, X., Zhou, J., Kikuzawa, K., Stenseth, N.C.,

Science Advances Volume 9, Issue 3  https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.add5667

Jan 2023

Optimality-based modelling of wheat sowing dates globally.

Qiao, S., Harrison, S.H., Prentice, I.C., Wang, H.

Agricultural Systems Volume 206 103608 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103608

Dec 2022 Recent global decline in rainfall interception loss due to altered rainfall regimes.

Lian, X., Zhao, W., Gentine, P., 

Nature Communications 13, Article number: 7642 (2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35414-y

Nov 2022 Critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress in terrestrial ecosystems

Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Feldman, A.F., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., Prentice, I. C., Stoy, P.C., Bastos, A., Wigneron, J-P.,

Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq7827 Vol 8Issue 44

Nov 2022 Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production. 

Bloomfield, K. J., Keenan, T.F., Stocker, B.D., Prentice, I.C.

Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16511

Nov 2022 Tracking diurnal to seasonal variations of gross primary productivity using a geostationary satellite, GK-2A advanced meteorological imager. 

Jeong, S., Ryu, Y. Dechant, B., Li, X., Kong, J., Choi,W., Kang, M., Yeom, J., Lim, J, Jang, K., Chun, J.,

Remote Sensing of Environment.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113365

Oct 2022 Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics.

Joshi, J., Stocker, B.D., Hofhansl, F., Zhou, S., Dieckmann, U., Prentice, I.C. 

Nature Plants, 8, 1304–131, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01244-5

Sept 2022 Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research

Chen, J.M., Wang, R., Liu, Y., He, L., Croft, H.,Luo, X., Wang. H., Smith, N.G., Keenan, T.F., Prentice,I.C.,Zhang, Y., Ju,W.,Dong,N.

Earth System Science Data Volume 14, Issue 9 https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/4077/2022/

Sept 2022 Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change

Zhu, Z., Wang, H, Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I. C., Qiao, S., Tan, S.

Global Change Biology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16459

July 2022 Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function.

Dong, N., Prentice, I.C., Wright, I.J., Wang, H., Atkin, O.K., Bloomfield, K.J., Domingues, T.F., Gleason, S.M., Maire, V., Onoda, Y., Poorter, H. Smith, N.G.

Journal of Ecology https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.13967

May 2022 Global environmental controls on wildfire burnt area, size and intensity.

Haas, O., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P.

Environmental Research Letters Volume17 Number 6 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6a69

March 2022 Rising CO2 and warming reduce global canopy demand for Nitrogen.

Dong, N., Wright, I. J., Chen, J.M., Luo, X., Wang, H., Keenan, T. F., Smith, N., Prentice, I. C.

New Phytologist 235: 1692-1700, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18076

March 2022 Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients.

Wang, H., Wang, R., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C.

Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13873

March 2022 CO2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales.

Chen, C., Riley, W.J., Prentice, I.C., Keenan, T.F

In press at Proceedings National Academy of Science. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2115627119#sec-4 

Feb 2022 Surface temperatures reveal the patterns of vegetation water stress and their environmental drivers across the tropical Americas.

Green, J., Ballantyne, A., Abramoff, R., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., Ciais, P.,

In press at Global Change Biology  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.16139

Feb 2022 Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits

Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Prentice, I.C., Gentine, P., Makowski, D., Luo, X.,Bastos, A., Green, J.K, Stoy, P.C., Yang, H. , Hajima, T.

Nature Communications 13, 989 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28652-7

February 2022 A model of C4 photosynthetic acclimation based on least-cost optimality theory suitable for Earth System Model incorporation

Scott, HG and Smith, NG

Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System (JAMES).  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021MS002470

January 2022 NIRvP: a robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales.

Dechant, B., Ryu, Y., Badgley, G., Köhler, P., Rascher, U., Migliavacca, M., Zhang, Y., Tagliabue, G., Guan, K., Rossini, M., Goulas, Y., Zeng, Y., Frankenberg, C., Berry, J.A. (2021)

 Remote Sensing of Environment  Volume 268 112763 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112763

November 2021 Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective

Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Keith J. Bloomfield, Ning Dong, Matthias Forkel, Matthew Forrest, Ramesh K. Ningthoujam, Adam Pellegrini, Yicheng Shen, Mara Baudena,  Anabelle W. Cardoso, Jessica C. Huss, Jaideep Joshi, Imma Oliveras, Juli G.Pausas, Kimberley J. Simpson

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac39be

Environmental Research Letters

October 2021

Global distribution of the rooting zone water storage capacity reflects plant adaptation to the environment

Stocker,B.D., et al  

BioRXiv  https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.17.460332

October 2021 Optimality-based modelling of climate impacts on global potential wheat yield

Qiao, S., Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P.

Environmental Research Letters  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e38

October 2021 Land-surface evapotranspiration derived from a first-principles primary production model

Tan, S., Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Yang, K.

Environmental Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac29eb

August 2021 Predictability of leaf traits with climate and elevation: a case study in Gongga Mountain, China, 

Huiying Xu, Han Wang, I Colin Prentice, Sandy P Harrison, Genxu Wang, Xiangyang Sun,

Tree Physiology, Volume 41, Issue 8, August 2021, Pages 1336–1352, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab003

July 2021 Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements.

Xu, H., Wang, H., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P., Wright, I.J.

New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17656

June 2021 Tansley review paper.

Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models.

Sandy P. Harrison, Wolfgang Cramer, Oskar Franklin, Iain Colin Prentice, Han Wang, Åke Brännström, Hugo de Boer, Ulf Dieckmann, Jaideep Joshi, Trevor F. Keenan, Aliénor Lavergne, Stefano Manzoni, Giulia Mengoli, Catherine Morfopoulos,  Josep Peñuelas, Stephan Pietsch, Karin T. Rebel, Youngryel Ryu, Nicholas G. Smith, Benjamin D. Stocker, Ian J. Wright

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17558

May 2021

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Ecosystem photosynthesis in land-surface models: a first-principles approach

Giulia MengoliAnna Agustí-Panareda, Souhail Boussetta, Sandy P. HarrisonCarlo TrottaI. Colin Prentice

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.07.442894

March 2021

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Plant hydraulics coordinated with photosynthetic traits and climate

Huiying Xu, Han Wang, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. HarrisonIan J. Wright

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.02.433324

March 2021 Leaf economics explained by optimality principles

Han WangI. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, Shengchao Qiao, Xiangtao Xu, Kihachiro Kikuzawa, Nils Chr. Stenseth

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.07.430028