| Greening of the Earth and its drivers Z Zhu, S Piao, RB Myneni, M Huang, Z Zeng, JG Canadell, P Ciais, ... Nature climate change 6 (8), 791-795, 2016 | 2057 | 2016 |
| A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations X Wang, S Piao, P Ciais, P Friedlingstein, RB Myneni, P Cox, M Heimann, ... Nature 506 (7487), 212-215, 2014 | 339 | 2014 |
| Machine learning and artificial intelligence to aid climate change research and preparedness C Huntingford, ES Jeffers, MB Bonsall, HM Christensen, T Lees, H Yang Environmental Research Letters 14 (12), 124007, 2019 | 279 | 2019 |
| Partitioning global land evapotranspiration using CMIP5 models constrained by observations X Lian, S Piao, C Huntingford, Y Li, Z Zeng, X Wang, P Ciais, TR McVicar, ... Nature Climate Change 8 (7), 640-646, 2018 | 249 | 2018 |
| Deceleration of China’s human water use and its key drivers F Zhou, Y Bo, P Ciais, P Dumas, Q Tang, X Wang, J Liu, C Zheng, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 117 (14), 7702-7711, 2020 | 181 | 2020 |
| Increased heat requirement for leaf flushing in temperate woody species over 1980–2012: effects of chilling, precipitation and insolation YH Fu, S Piao, Y Vitasse, H Zhao, HJ De Boeck, Q Liu, H Yang, U Weber, ... Global change biology 21 (7), 2687-2697, 2015 | 177 | 2015 |
| Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits Z Fu, P Ciais, IC Prentice, P Gentine, D Makowski, A Bastos, X Luo, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 989, 2022 | 139 | 2022 |
| Divergent changes in the elevational gradient of vegetation activities over the last 30 years M Gao, S Piao, A Chen, H Yang, Q Liu, YH Fu, IA Janssens Nature communications 10 (1), 2970, 2019 | 132 | 2019 |
| Seasonal responses of terrestrial ecosystem water‐use efficiency to climate change M Huang, S Piao, Z Zeng, S Peng, P Ciais, L Cheng, J Mao, B Poulter, ... Global Change Biology 22 (6), 2165-2177, 2016 | 126 | 2016 |
| Increasing forest fire emissions despite the decline in global burned area B Zheng, P Ciais, F Chevallier, E Chuvieco, Y Chen, H Yang Science advances 7 (39), eabh2646, 2021 | 122 | 2021 |
| Velocity of change in vegetation productivity over northern high latitudes M Huang, S Piao, IA Janssens, Z Zhu, T Wang, D Wu, P Ciais, RB Myneni, ... Nature ecology & evolution 1 (11), 1649-1654, 2017 | 120 | 2017 |
| Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield X Wang, C Müller, J Elliot, ND Mueller, P Ciais, J Jägermeyr, J Gerber, ... Nature Communications 12 (1), 1235, 2021 | 116 | 2021 |
| Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture W Li, M Migliavacca, M Forkel, JMC Denissen, M Reichstein, H Yang, ... Nature Communications 13 (1), 3959, 2022 | 106 | 2022 |
| Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets T Wang, Y Zhao, C Xu, P Ciais, D Liu, H Yang, S Piao, T Yao Nature Climate Change 11 (3), 219-225, 2021 | 103 | 2021 |
| Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration P Ciais, Y Yao, T Gasser, A Baccini, Y Wang, R Lauerwald, S Peng, ... National Science Review 8 (2), nwaa145, 2021 | 87 | 2021 |
| Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe Z Fu, P Ciais, A Bastos, PC Stoy, H Yang, JK Green, B Wang, K Yu, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1810), 20190747, 2020 | 87 | 2020 |
| Quantifying nitrogen leaching response to fertilizer additions in China's cropland S Gao, P Xu, F Zhou, H Yang, C Zheng, W Cao, S Tao, S Piao, Y Zhao, ... Environmental pollution 211, 241-251, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
| Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests Y Li, PM Brando, DC Morton, DM Lawrence, H Yang, JT Randerson Nature communications 13 (1), 1964, 2022 | 72 | 2022 |
| Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization Y Liu, S Piao, T Gasser, P Ciais, H Yang, H Wang, TF Keenan, M Huang, ... Nature Geoscience 12 (10), 809-814, 2019 | 71 | 2019 |
| Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021 B Zheng, P Ciais, F Chevallier, H Yang, JG Canadell, Y Chen, ... Science 379 (6635), 912-917, 2023 | 66 | 2023 |
