Ying-Ping Wang

Abstract Tropical forests are increasingly affected by drought, yet the factors that control post-drought ecosystem resilience—the capacity to withstand disturbances—are not fully understood. Here we use temporal autocorrelation of satellite-derived vegetation greenness to quantify ecosystem resilience following 142,444 severe drought events across tropical forests from 2003 to 2022.

Abstract Plants assimilate carbon through photosynthesis (gross primary productivity, GPP) while losing water via transpiration (Trans), with both processes responding nonlinearly to temperature. Although the air temperature optimum of GPP (\({T}_{\mathrm{opt}}^{\mathrm{GPP}}\)) is well studied, the thermal response of Trans (\({T}_{\mathrm{opt}}^{\mathrm{Trans}}\)) remains unknown.

Abstract The extent to which microbial processes control soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics remains uncertain. Carbon use efficiency (CUE), that is, the fraction of assimilated carbon allocated to growth, has been used as a key parameter but its relationship with SOC reflects carbon partitioning rather than the absolute magnitude of microbial fluxes.