Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University; Research Fellow at Imperial, interested in plant traits, carbon and nitrogen interactions, climate change !

Joined February 2015
Our global soil predictions at 30 m for 5 and 2 year periods (2000-2022+) are now available for viewing from world.soils.app; paper has just been published at @ESSD_journal (doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-989-…). You can download GeoTIFFs (open data license) with 5-year predictions of soil carbon content, soil carbon density (kg/m3), soil pH, soil texture fractions, bulk density and USDA subgroup soil types. We are working on a systematic update and on adding more soil variables + getting a better estimate of organic soils. Stay tuned for updates and new data releases. With many thanks to the reviewers and comments; funding from @landcarbonlab and @REA_research funded @EarthMonitorOrg and @AI4SoilHealth projects. Also many thanks to all organizations sharing and maintaining soil (field) laboratory data without this work would not have been possible: USDA NRCS National Soil Survey Center, the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS), the European Soil Data Center, ISRIC – World Soil Information and many others. Many thanks to all co-authors also for helping collate the biggest predictive soil mapping project to the date. Paper: doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-989-… Data: github.com/openlandmap/soild… Webinar: youtu.be/443HBf1GIGI?si=x8fC… Join some of our upcoming events to learn about this data, how to access and use it, and how to potentially extend and improve it: earthmonitor.org/global-work…. It took me almost 8 years to move from 250 m to 30 m resolution. Next update should take exponentially less time hopefully.
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Abstract submission and registration for the #47NPS Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life, are open! 2–5 June 2026 Travel grant, selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 Full details at newphytologist.org/events/47…
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Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @NewPhyt newphytologist.org/events/47…
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Field campaign from 800m to 3000m in shenlongjia region at hubei province, China! Not easy during this period with many rainy days.
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📢🌿Available PhD position in my research group, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news…
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🚨 Excited to share our latest findings in @NatureGeosci! We found that Rossby waves cause synchronized GPP declines in high-pressure regions. Even more concerning: when hot-dry conditions hit extreme levels, there are non-linear GPP reductions. nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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#pdra #postdoc Research Fellow in Tropical American Forest Dynamics. We are looking for a scientist with strong quantitative skills focused on forests to lead ecological change analyses with a global team including RAINFOR, PPBio + other networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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♻️Development and application of an inexpensive open-source dendrometer for detecting xylem water potential and radial stem growth at high spatial and temporal resolution by Sean M Gleason and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plae0… #PlantScience
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🌿 One not to miss! Our latest blog by Prof. Colin Prentice dives into the P-model, exploring the challenges we face and our plans to address them. Discover how we're refining this powerful tool for predicting plant photosynthesis. 🌎🌱 🔗 Read more: research.reading.ac.uk/lemon…
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Jeong et al's 2nd paper in Remote Sensing of Environment reveals a persistent global greening trend over the last 4 decades using refined NDVI and NIRv datasets. This contrasts with previous studies showing a decline in global greening. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @ryuyr77
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Jeong et al.'s new paper in Remote Sensing of the Environment explores how SIF from new satellites enhances our understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Key findings include diurnal SIF depression & vapour-pressure deficit's role over temperature. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @ryuyr77
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At Geogina Mace Centre for the Living Planet Debate 2024 with some fantastic speeches and nice people this afternoon! @GMaceCentre
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Evolutionary history and root trait coordination predict nutrient strategy in tropical legume trees Marcellus et al. @MiaMarcell_s 📖 ow.ly/A0JR50SBshF
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Please check out our work on global traits maps comparison, leading by great @DechantBenjamin ! 👍
Our work on comparing global foliar trait maps and the impact of upscaling approaches is now published in RSE: doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.1… This is an outcome of the #sTRAITS working group #sDiv @idiv. @RyanPavlick @fabdanis @JensKattge @PhilTownsnd @JosepPenuelas @Reichstein_BGC
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☀️Check out this new #AJB essay! ☀️ Opportunities to improve our understanding of the impact of photosynthetic acclimation on terrestrial #ecosystem processes under #globalchange By @nick_greg_smith doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16313 #botany #ecophysiology #photosynthesis @wileyplantsci
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UPDATED: When I teach Principal Component Analysis (PCA), I use my interactive dashboard with my students so they observe how, through an orthogonal transformation (rotation) of a 2-feature dataset, the variance of the data projected onto one of the components can be maximized. I got a great suggestion from Prof. @MartinHTrauth to include decorrelation of the 2 components. Thank you Martin! Here's the updated dashboard with correlation and many other improvements. I shared my updated #Python @matplotlib dashboard on #GitHub @ github.com/GeostatsGuy/DataS… ∀. #DataScience #MachineLearning
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