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Shan Gao Author
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Environmental, Biodiversity
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Biography
Dr. Shan Gao is currently working in State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Research interest - Environment, Biodiversity. He has a good track record in managing and developing local teams and competences as well as in growing a profitable research.
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Bifurcated Response of a Regional Forest to Drought
Author(s): Chuixiang Yi, Guangwei Mu, George Hendrey, Sergio M Vicente- Serrano, Wei Fang, Tao Zhou, Shan Gao and Peipei Xu
Several lines of evidence suggest that forest growth in many regions is declining as a consequence of changing climate. To predict the fate of forests in the future, a quantitative understanding of how the key climate variables (insolation, precipitation and temperature) interact with forests to cause the decline is a pressing need. Here we use a regionally-averaged tree-ring width index (RWIr) to quantify forest growth in the Southwest United States (SWUS). We show that over a period of 90 years, SWUS RWIr bifurcated into forest stands with enhanced (healthy) and reduced (declining) branches when regressed on shortwave-radiation and temperature, respectively. The reduced branch was controlled overwhelmingly by drought as measured with a regionally-averaged precipitationevapotranspirati... view more»
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