Peer-Reviewed Publications
Online/In Discussion
Liang J, Zhou Z, Huo C, Shi Z, Cole J, Huang L, Konstantinidis K, Li X, Liu B, Luo Z, Penton CR, Schuur E, Tiedje J, Wang Y, Wu L, Xia J, Zhou J, Luo Y. 2018. More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input. Nature Communications (Accepted)
Huang Y, Stacy M, Jiang J, Sundi N, Ma S, Saruta V, Jung GJ, Shi Z, Xia J, Hanson PJ, Ricciuto D, Luo Y. 2018. Realized ecological forecast through interactive Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data into model (EcoPAD). Geoscientific Model Development Discussion (https://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2018-76/)
Du Z, Weng E, Xia J, Jiang L, Zhou X, Luo Y. 2018. Carbon-nitrogen coupling under three schemes of model representation: Traceabiligy analysis. Geoscientific Model Development Discussion (https://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/gmd-2018-41/)
2018
Gao Q, Bai E, Wang J, Zheng Z, Xia J, You W. 2018. Effects of litter manipulation on soil respiration under short-term nitrogen addition in a subtropical evergreen forest. Forest Ecology and Management (In Press)
Chen J, Luo Y, Garcia-Palacios P, Cao J, Dacal M, Zhou X, Li J, Xia J, Niu S, Yang H, Shelton S, Guo W, van Groenigen KJ. 2018. Differential responses of cellulase and ligninase activities to warming: implications for soil respiration. Global Change Biology (In Press)
Liang J,Xia J, Shi Z, Jiang L, Ma S, Lu X, Mauritz M, Natali SM, Pegoraro E, Ryan Penton C, Plaza C, Salmon VG, Celis G, Cole JR, Konstantinidis KT, Tiedje JM, Zhou J, Schuur EAG, Luo Y. 2018. Biotic responses buffer warming-induced soil organic carbon loss in Arctic tundra. Global Change Biology (In Press)
Hu Z, Shi H, Cheng K, Wang Y-P, Piao S, Li Y, Zhang L, Xia J, Zhou L, Yuan W, Running S, Li L, Hao Y, He N, Yu Q, Yu G. 2018. Joint structural and physiological control on the inter-annual variation in productivity in a temperate grassland: a data-model comparison. Global Change Biology (https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14274)
Chen J, Luo Y, Xia J, Cao J, Zhou X, Niu S, Shelton S. 2018. Divergent responses of ecosystem respiration components to livestock exclusion on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau. Land Degradation & Development (In Press)
Han G, Sun B, Chu X, Xing Q, Song W, Xia J. 2018. Precipitation events reduce soil respiration in a coastal wetland based on four-year continuous field measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 256-257: 292-303
Lei L, Xia J, Li X, Huang K, Zhang A, Chen S, Weng E, Luo Y, Wan S. 2018. Water response of ecosystem respiraiton regulates future projection of net ecosystem productivity in a semiarid grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 252: 175-191
Wang J, Sun J, Xia J, He N, Li M, Niu S. 2018. Soil and vegetation carbon turnover times from tropical to boreal forests. Functional Ecology 32: 71-82
Chu X, Han G, Xing Q, Xia J, Sun B, Yu J, Li D. 2018. Dual effect of precipitation redistribution on net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a coastal wetland in the Yellow River Delta. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 249: 286-296
Huang Y, Lu X, Shi Z, Lawrence D, Koven C,Xia J, Du Z, Kluzek E, Luo Y. 2018. Matrix approach to land carbon cycle modeling: A case study with Community Land Model. Global Change Biology 24: 1394-1404
2017
Jiang L, Shi Z, Xia J, Liang J, Lu X, Wang Y, Luo Y. 2017. Transient traceability analysis of land carbon storage dynamics: procedures and its application to two forest ecosystems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 9: 2822-2835
Xia J, McGuire AD, Lawrence D, Burke E, Chen G, Chen X, Delire C, Koven C, MacDougall A, Peng S, Rinke A, Saito K, Zhang W, Alkama R, Bohn TJ, Ciais P, Decharme B, Gouttevin I, Hajima T, Hayes DJ, Huang K, Ji D, Krinner G, Lettenmaier DP, Miller PA, Moore JC, Smith B, Sueyoshi T, Shi Z, Yan L, Liang J, Jiang L, Zhang Q, Luo Y. 2017. Terrestrial ecosystem model performance in simulating productivity and its vulnerability to climate change in the northern permafrost region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122: 430-446. (AGU Research Spotlight: http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/article/10.1002/2016JG003384/editor-highlight/)
Du Z, Zhou X, Shao J, Yu G, Wang H, Xia J, Luo Y. 2017. Quantifying uncertainties of nitrogen module from data and model structure in a terrestrial ecosystem model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 9: 548-565.
De Kauwe M, Medlyn BE, Walker AP, Zaehle S, Asao S, Guenet B, Harper AB, Hickler T, Jain A, Luo Y, Lu X, Luus K, Parton WJ, Shu S, Wang Y-P, Werner C, Xia J, Pendall E, Morgan JA, Ryan EM, Carrillo Y, Dijkstra FA, Zelikova TJ, Norby RJ. 2017. Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multi-factor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment. Global Change Biology 23: 3623-3645.
Li G, Han H, Du Y, Hui D, Xia J, Niu S, Li X, Wan S. 2017. Effects of warming and increased precipitation on net ecosystem productivity: a long-term manipulative experiment in a semiarid grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 232: 359-366.
Zhang B, Tan T, Wang S, Chen M, Chen S, Ren T, Xia J, Bai Y, Huang J, Han X. 2017. Asymmetric sensitivity of ecosystem carbon and water processes in response to precipitation change in a semiarid steppe. Functional Ecology 31: 1301-1311.
Luo Y, Shi Z, Lu X, Xia J, Liang J, Jiang J, Wang Y, Smith WJ, Jiang L, Ahlstrom A, Chen B, Hararuk O, Hastings A, Hoffman F, Medlyn B, Niu S, Rasmussen M, Todd-Brown K, Wang Y-P. 2016. Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage: mathematical foundation and numeric examples. Biogeosciences 14: 145-161 (Discussion version: doi:10.5194/bg-2016-377)
Yang Z, Zhang Q, Su F, Zhang C, Pu Z, Xia J, Wan S, Jiang L. 2016. Daytime warming lowers community temporal stability by reducing the abundance of dominant, stable species. Global Change Biology 23: 154-163.
Edmund R, Ogle K, Peltier D, Walker AP, De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Williams DG, Parton W, Asao S, Guenet B, Harper A, Lu X, Luus KA, Shu S, Werner C, Xia J, Zaehle S, Pendall E. 2017. Gross primary production responses to warming, elevated CO2, and irragation: quantifying the drivers of ecosystem physiology in a semiarid grassland. Global Change Biology 23: 3092-3106
Rafique R, Xia J, Hararuk O, Luo Y, Koven C. 2017. Comparing the performance of three land models in global C cycle simulations: A detailed structural analysis. Land Degradation & Development 28: 524-533.
2016
Liu H, Shen G, Ma Z, Yang Q, Xia J, Fang X, Wang X. 2016. Conspecific leaf litter-mediated effect of conspecific adult neighborhood on early-stage seedling survival in a subtropical forest. Scientific Reports (In press)
Chen J, Luo Y, Xia J, Wilcox KR, Cao J, Zhou X, Jiang L, Niu S, Estera K, Huang R, Wu F, Hu F, Liang J, Shi Z, Guo J, Wang R. 2016. Warming effects on ecosystem carbon fluxes are modulated by plant functional types. Ecosystems (In Press)
McGuire AD, Koven C, Lawrence D, Clein JS, Xia J, Beer C, Burke E, Chen G, Chen X, Delire C, Jafarov E, MacDougall AH, Marchenko S, Nicolsky D, Peng S, Rinke A, Saito K, Zhang W, Alkama R, Bohn TJ, Ciais P, Decharme B, Ekici A, Gouttevin I, Hajima T, Hayes DJ, Ji D, Krinner G, Lettenmaier DP, Luo Y, Miller PA, Moore JC, Romanovsky V, Schadel C, Schaefer K, Schurr EAG, Smith B, Sueyoshi T, Zhuang Q. 2016. Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and carbon dynamics in the permafrost region between 1960 to 2009. Global Biogeochemical Cycles (In Press)
Rafique R, Xia J, Hararuk O, Asrar G, Leng G, Wang Y, Luo Y. 2016. Divergent predictions of carbon storage between two global land models: attribution of the causes through traceability analysis. Earth System Dynamics, 7, 649-658.
Feng W, Shi Z, Jiang J, Xia J, Liang J, Zhou J, Luo Y. 2016. Methodological uncertainty in estimating carbon turnover times of soil fractions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 100, 118-124.
Li Q, Luo Y, Xia J, Shi Z, Huang K, Du Z, Lin G. 2016. Variation of parameters in a Flux-based Ecosystem Model across 12 sites of terrestrial ecosystems in the conterminous USA. Ecological Modelling (In Press)
Shi Z, Xu X, Souza L, Wilcox K, Jiang L, Liang J, Xia J, Garcia-Palacios P, Luo Y. 2016. Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest. Nature Communications (In Press)
Niu S, Classen AT, Dukes JS, Kardol P, Liu L, Luo Y, Rustad L, Sun J, Tang J, Templer PH, Thomas RQ, Tian D, Wang Y-P, Xia J, Zaehle S. 2016. Global patterns and fundamental mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle. Ecology Letters 19, 697–709.
Yang Z, Jiang L, Su F, Zhang Q, Xia J, Wan S. 2016. Nighttime warming enhances drought resilience of plant communities in a temperate steppe. Scientific Reports 6, 23267.
Liu W, Allison SD, Xia J, Liu L, Wan S. Precipitation regime drives warming responses of microbial biomass and activity in temperate steppe soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 52, 469-477.
Chen J, Luo Y, Xia J, Shi Z, Jiang L, Niu S, Zhou X, Cao J. 2016. Differential responses of ecosystem respiration components to experimental warming in a meadow grassland on the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 220, 21-29.
Luo Y, Ahlström A, Allison S, Batjes N, Brovkin V, Carvalhais N, Chappell A, Ciais P, Finzi A, Georgiou K, Harauk O, Harden J, Jiang L, Koven C, Jones C, Lara M, Liang J, McGuire D, Parton W, Peng C, Randerson J, Salazar A, Sierra C, Smith M, Tian H, Todd-Brown K, Van Groenigen KJ, Wang YP, West T, Wieder W, Xia J, Xu X, Xu XF, Zhou T. 2016. Towards more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30, 40-56.
Hoffman, F. M., C. D. Koven, G. Keppel-Aleks, D. M. Lawrence, W. J. Riley, J. T. Randerson, A. Ahlström, G. Abramowitz, D. D. Baldocchi, M. Best, B. Bond-Lamberty, M. De Kauwe, A. S. Denning, A. Desai, V. Eyring, R. Fisher, P. J. Gleckler, M. Huang, G. Hugelius, A. K. Jain, N. Y. Kiang, H. Kim, R. D. Koster, S. V. Kumar, H. Li, Y. Luo, J. Mao, N. G. McDowell, U. Mishra, P. Moorcroft, G. S. H. Pau, D. M. Ricciuto, K. Schaefer, C. R. Schwalm, S. Serbin, E. Shevliakova, A. G. Slater, J. Tang, M. Williams, J. Xia, C. Xu, R. Joseph, and D. Koch (2016), International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) 2016 Workshop Report, DOE/SC-XXXX, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Germantown, Maryland, USA, XXX pp., doi:10.7249/XXXXXXX. (Link to download: http://climate.ornl.gov/~forrest/ILAMB2016/ILAMB_Report_V4.pdf)
2015
Chen J, Luo Y, Xia J, Jiang L, Zhou X, Lu M, Liang J, Shi Z, Shelton S, Cao J. 2015. Stronger warming effects on microbial abundances in colder regions. Scientific Reports 5, 18032.
Chen Y, Xia J, Sun Z, Luo Y, Gang C, Wang Z. 2015. The role of residence time in diagnostic models of global carbon storage capacity: model decomposition based on a traceable scheme. Scientific Reports 5, 16155.
Wieder WR, Alllison SD, Davidson EA, Georgiou K, Hararuk O, He Y, Hopkins F, Luo Y, Smith M, Sulman B, Todd-Brown K, Wang Y-P, Xia J, Xu X. 2015. Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles29: 1782-1800.
Van Groenigen KJ, Xia J, Osenberg CW, Luo Y, Hungate BA. 2015. Application of a two-pool model to soil carbon dynamics under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 21(12), 4293-4297.
Shi Z, Sherry R, Xu X, Jiang L, Xia J, Liang J, Souza L, Luo Y. 2015. Evidence for long-term shift in plant community composition under experimental climate warming. Journal of Ecology 103, 1131-1140.
Ahlstom A, Xia J, Almut A, Luo Y, Smith B. 2015. Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling. Environmental Research Letters 10, 054019, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054019
Jiang L, Yan Y, Hararuk O, Mikle N, Xia J, Shi Z, Tjiputra J, Wu T, Luo Y. 2015. Scale-dependent performance of CMIP5 Earth System Models in simulating terrestrial vegetation carbon. Journal of Climatedoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00270.1
Shi Z, Xu X, Hararuk O, Jiang L, Xia J, Liang J, Li D, Y Luo. 2015. Experimental warming altered rates of carbon processes, allocation storage in a tallgrass prairie: A data assimilation approach. Ecosphere6: art210.(http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00335.1)
Han J, Chen J, Xia J, Li L. 2015. Grazing and watering alter plant phenological processes in a desert steppe community. Plant Ecology (DOI 10.1007/s11258-015-0462-z)
Xia J, Niu S, Ciais P, Janssens I, Chen J, Ammann C, Blanken PD, Cescatti A, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Curtis PS, Chen S, Dong J, Flanagan LB, Frankenberg C, Georgiadis T, Gough CM, Hui D, Kiely G, Li J, Lund M, Magliulo V, Marcolla B, Merbold L, Montagnani L, Moors E, Olesen JE, Piao S, Raschi A, Roupsard O, Suyker A, Urbaniak M, Vaccari F, Varlagin A, Vesala T, Wilkinson M, Weng E, Wohlfahrt G, Yan L, Luo Y. 2015. Joint control of annual terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake by plant phenology and physiology. PNAS112, 2788-2793.
Liang J, Xia J, Wan S. 2015. Reply to ‘Testing for temperature acclimation of plant carbon exchange’ by Smith. Journal of Plant Ecology, doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtu023
2014
Yan L, Chen S, Luo Y, Xia J. 2014. Precipitation regime shift enhanced the rain pulse effect on soil respiration in a semi-arid steppe. PLoS ONE 9(8), e104217
Rafique R, Xia J, Hararuk O, Luo Y, Koven C. 2014. Structural analysis of three global land models on carbon cycle simulations using a traceability framework. Biogeoscience Discussions 11, 9979-10014.
Li J, Natali S, Schuur EAG, Xia J, Pak B, Wang YP, Luo Y. 2014. Modeling permafrost thaw and ecosystem carbon cycle under annual and seasonal warming at an Arctic tundra site in Alaska. Journal of Geographic Research-Biogeosciences doi: 10.1002/2013JG002569
Hararuk O, Xia J, Luo Y. 2014. Evaluation and improvement of two global land models against soil carbon data using a data assimilation approach. Journal of Geographic Research-Biogeosciences. 119(3), 403-417
Xia J, Chen J, Piao S, Ciais P, Luo Y, Wan S. 2014. Terrestrial carbon cycle affected by non-uniform climate warming. Nature Geoscience 7, 173-180 (Reported by Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140305160759.htm and Highlighted by Nature Asia: http://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/9141)
Han G, Luo Y, Li D, Xia J, Xing Q, and Yu J. 2014. Ecosystem photosynthesis regulates soil respiration on a diurnal scale with a short-term time lag in a coastal wetland. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 68, 85-94.
Niu S, Luo Y, Li D, Cao S, Xia J, Li J, Smith MD. 2014. Plant growth and mortality under climate extremes: an overview. Environmental and Experimental Botany 98, 13-19.
Yan L, Luo Y, Sherry RA, Bell JE, Zhou X, Xia J. 2014. Rain use efficiency as affected by climate warming and biofuel harvest: results from a 12-year field experiment. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy, 6, 556-565.
Xia J, Niu S, Wang X, Piao S, Yan L, and Wan S. 2014. Ecosystem carbon cycle under changing atmosphere, climate, and land use in Dryland East Asia. In Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change (ed. by J. Chen , S. Wan, G. Henebry, J. Qi, G. Gutman, G. Sun, M. Kappas). Higher Education Press and De Gruyter Publishers.
2013
Wei C, Yu Q, Bai E, Lu X, Li Q, Xia J, Kardol P, Liang W, Wang Z, Han X. 2013. Nitrogen deposition weakens plant-microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 19, 3688-3697.
Xia J, Wan S. 2013. Independent effects of warming and nitrogen addition on plant phenology in Inner Mongolian steppe. Annals of Botany, 111, 1207-1217.
Li Q, Bai H, Liang W, Xia J, Wan S, Van De Putten WH. 2013. Nitrogen addition and warming independently influence the belowground micro-food web in a temperate steppe. PLoS ONE,8: e60441.
Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y-P, Hararuk O. 2013. Traceable components of modeled carbon storage capacity in terrestrial ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 19, 2104-2116.
Liang J, Xia J, Liu L, Wan S. 2013. Global patterns of the responses of leaf-level photosynthesis and respiration in terrestrial plants to experimental warming. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtt003 (Featured article).
Wang L, Niu S, Good SP, Soderberg K, McCabe MF, Sherry R, Luo Y, Zhou X, Xia J, Caylor KK,. 2013. The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partition using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 111, 28-38.
Bai W, Xia J, Zhang N, Zhao C, Wu T, Wan S. 2013. Methods and measurements in belowground ecoloigcal processes. In Methods in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology (ed. by J. Chen et al.). China Agriculture University Press.
2012
Luo Y, Randerson J, Abramowitz G, Bacour G.C, Blyth EM, Carvalhais N; Ciais P; Dalmonech D; Fisher JB, Fisher RA, Friedlingstein P, Hibbard K, Hoffman F, Huntzinger DN, Jones CD, Lawrence D, Li D, Mahecha M, Niu S, R. Norby, Piao S, Qi X, Peylin P, Prentice C, Riley WJ, Reichstein M, Wang YP, Xia J, Zaehle S, Zhou X. 2012. A framework for benchmarking land models. Biogeosciences,9 , 3857-3874 (Discussion paper, 9, 1899-1944)
Xia J, Luo Y, Wang Y-P, Weng E, Hararuk O. 2012. A semi-analytical solution to accelerate spin-up of coupled carbon and nitrogen land models to steady states. Geoscientific Model Development,5, 1259-1271 (Discussion paper, 5, 803-836).
Han Y, Zhang Z, Wang C, Jiang F, Xu W, Xia J*. 2012. Effects of mowing and nitrogen addition on soil respiration in three patches in an old field in Inner Mongolia. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 5(2), 219-228.
Bai W, Xia J, Wan S, Zhang W, Li L. 2012. Day and night warming have different effect on root lifespan. Biogeosciences, 9, 375-384.
Wang H, Xia J, Wan S, Li L, Mu Y, Nie L. 2012. BVOCs emission in a semi-arid grassland under climate warming and nitrogen deposition. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 3809-3819 (Discussion paper: 12, 787-815).
Xia J, Wan S. 2012. The effects of warming-shifted plant phenology on ecosystem carbon exchange are regulated by precipitation in a semi-arid grassland. Plos One, 7, e32088.
Xia J, Zhang L, Yan L, Wu D, Chen S, Wan S. 2012. Grassland carbon cycle under global change. In Maintaining mechnisms of grassland ecosystem: results from long-term experiments in Duolun and Xilinhot (ed. by X. Han, L. Li, S. Chen, and Z. Yuan). China Agriculture University Press.
2011
Li Y, H Yang, Xia J, Li L, Wan S. 2011. Effects of increased nitrogen deposition and precipitation on seed and seedling production of Potentilla tanacetifolia in a temperate steppe ecosystem. Plos One, 6, e28601
Zhang N, Xia J, Yu X, Ma K, Wan S. 2011. Soil microbial community changes and their linkages with ecosystem carbon exchange under asymmetrically diurnal warming. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 43, 2053-2059.
Niu S, Xing, X, Zhang Z, Xia J, Zhou X, Song B, Li L, Wan S. 2011. Water-use efficiency in response to climate change: from leaf to ecosystem in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 17: 1073-1082.
2010-Pre
Xia J, S. Chen and S. Wan. 2010. Impacts of day versus night warming on soil microclimate: results from a steppe-warming experiment. Science of the Total Envrionment408: 2807-2816.
Lin D, Xia J, Wan S. 2010. Climate warming and biomass accumulation of terrestrial plants: a meta-analysis.New Phytologist187: 188-198.
Niu S, Wu M, Han Y, Xia J, Zhang Z, Yang H, and Wan S. 2010. Nitrogen effects on net ecosystem carbon exchange in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 16: 144-155.
Xia J, Han Y, Zhang Z, Zhang Z, and S. Wan. 2009. Effects of diurnal warming on soil respiration are not equal to the summed effects of day and night warming in a temperate steppe. Biogeosciences, 6: 1-10. (Nature Research Highlights: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7257/full/460783c.html; Nature Blog: http://blogs.nature.com/inthefield/2009/08/esa_2009_nights_in_inner_mongo.html)
Wan S#, Xia J# (#equally contribution), Liu W, Niu S. 2009. Photosynthetic over-compensation under nocturnal warming enhances grassland carbon sequestration. Ecology. 90: 2700-2710.
Xia J, Niu S, Wan S. 2009. Response of ecosystem carbon exchange to warming and nitrogen addition during two climatologically contrasting growing seasons in a temperate steppe. Global Change Biology 15 (6): 1544-1556.
Niu S, Li Z, Xia J, Han Y, Wu M, and Wan S. 2008. Climatic warming changes plant photosynthesis and its temperature dependence in a temperate steppe of northern China. Environmental and Experimental Botany 63: 91-101.
Niu S, Wu M, Han Y, Xia J, Li L, Wan S. 2008. Water-mediated responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to climatic change in a temperate steppe. New Phytologist 177: 209-219.
Xia J and Wan S. 2008. Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition. New Phytologist 179: 428-439. (Faculty 1000 Ranking 8.0 as 'must read':http://f1000.com/11041957)
