Current research projects Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Climatic and Environmental Change. ORNL, 2022-2023 (Co-I, PIs: Paul Hanson and Daniel Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)TECO modeling, data assimilation, and ecological forecasting at Sevilleta (SEV) LTER site. NSF, 2018-2024 (Co-PI, PI: Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico)Constraining the continental-scale terrestrial carbon cycle using NEON data. NSF, 2020-2024 (PI: Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire)USDA Climate Smart Commodities NYS Connects: Climate Smart Farms and Forests Project. NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, 2023-2028 (PI) Empirical measurements and model representation of hydraulic redistribution as a control on function of semiarid woody ecosystems. DOE, 2022-2025 (PI: William Pockman, University of New Mexico)

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Our research program is designed to advance predictive understanding of ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry under the global environmental change via data-model integration. Major issues we are addressing include (1) how global change alters structure and functions of terrestrial ecosystems, and (2) how terrestrial ecosystems regulate climate change. We have used diverse approaches to our research, including experimentation, observation, data synthesis, modeling, data-model fusion, and theoretical analysis.

News/Events

Lab news and upcoming events

7th Training Course (Virtual) on New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling, June 3-14, 2024

Nature paper "Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage" is online on May 24, 2023

Release data assimilation algorithm for "Methods for estimating temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter based on incubation data: A comparative evaluation".

The 1st version of the protocol for model intercomparison on terrestrial biogeochemistry has been released.

Work

Most recent publications

  • Yuanyuan Huang, Xiaodong Song, Ying-Ping Wang, Josep G. Canadell, Yiqi Luo, Philippe Ciais, Anping Chen, Songbai Hong, Yugang Wang, Feng Tao, Wei Li, Yiming Xu, Reza Mirzaeitalarposhti, Heba Elbasiouny, Igor Savin, Dmitry Shchepashchenko, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Daniel S. Goll, Jinfeng Chang, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Huayong Wu, Fei Yang, Xiaoming Feng, Yongzhe Chen, Yu Liu, Shuli Niu, Gan-Lin Zhang. 2024. Size, distribution, and vulnerability of the global soil inorganic carbon. Science, 384: 233–239. [Download]
  • Feng Tao, Johannes Lehmann, Ying-Ping Wang, Lifen Jiang, Bernhard Ahrens, Kostiantyn Viatkin, Stefano Manzoni, Benjamin Z Houlton, Yuanyuan Huang, Xiaomeng Huang, Yiqi Luo. 2024. Reply to “Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency”. National Science Review 11: nwae058, 2024. [Download]
  • Feng Tao, Benjamin Z Houlton, Serita D Frey, Johannes Lehmann, Stefano Manzoni, Yuanyuan Huang, Lifen Jiang, Umakant Mishra, Bruce A Hungate, Michael WI Schmidt, Markus Reichstein, Nuno Carvalhais, Philippe Ciais, Ying-Ping Wang, Bernhard Ahrens, Gustaf Hugelius, Toby D Hocking, Xingjie Lu, Zheng Shi, Kostiantyn Viatkin, Ronald Vargas, Yusuf Yigini, Christian Omuto, Ashish A Malik, Guillermo Peralta, Rosa Cuevas-Corona, Luciano E Di Paolo, Isabel Luotto, Cuijuan Liao, Yi-Shuang Liang, Vinisa S Saynes, Xiaomeng Huang, Yiqi Luo. 2024. Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature, 627: E4-E6. [Download]