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Pantropical moist forests are converging towards a middle leaf longevity

The longevity of leaves determines the overall duration of photosynthesis for plants. This study suggests that climate change drives leaf longevity convergence toward intermediate ranges, which, by altering leaf traits and enhancing photosynthetic capacity, strengthens ecosystem stability and is closely linked to vegetation diversity.

Meimei Xue
Xueqin Yang
Chaoyang Wu
ResearchOpen Access29 Jan 2026
Nature Communications

P: 1-13
Global vegetation production may decrease in this century due to rising atmospheric dryness

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could stimulate plant photosynthesis and production. However, using the measurements from global eddy-covariance sites, this study shows that continued increases in atmospheric aridity in the future will counteract most of this fertilization effect.

Shangrong Lin
Xiuzhi Chen
Wenping Yuan
Research23 Oct 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 2279-2289
Assessing global sustainability performance, imbalance, and coordination over space and time

The global progress, balance, and coordination of Sustainable Development Goals during 2000-2020 improved overall, with gaps narrowing between low- and high-income countries.

Zhenci Xu
Xiuzhi Chen
Jianguo Liu
ResearchOpen Access16 Oct 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-12
Expression of IL-1α, IL-6, TGF-β, FasL and ZNF265 During Sertoli Cell Infection by Ureaplasma Urealyticum

Rongping Li
Yebin Xi
Weiyi Li
Research01 Jun 2009
Cellular & Molecular Immunology

Volume: 6, P: 215-221
A UFD1 variant encoding a microprotein modulates UFD1f and IPMK ubiquitination to play pivotal roles in anti-stress responses

Some small mRNA isoforms regulate cellular responses to stress. Here, Li et al. identify UFD1s, a stress responsive micro-RNA that encodes a conserved microprotein that regulates ubiquitination of full length UFD1, promotes autophagy and fatty acid oxidation, and acts to alleviate NASH progression in mice.

Xiuzhi Li
Xiaolin Wang
Liang Chen
ResearchOpen Access21 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-24
Contrasting age-dependent leaf acclimation strategies drive vegetation greening across deciduous broadleaf forests in mid- to high latitudes

This study reports age-dependent negative correlations between temporal changes in maximal leaf area index and growing season length, indicating contrasting leaf acclimation strategies driving vegetation greening in young versus old deciduous broadleaf forests.

Fangyi Wang
Meimei Xue
Xiuzhi Chen
Research08 Sept 2025
Nature Plants

Volume: 11, P: 1748-1758
Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests

Human-driven forest fragmentation could have major impacts on ecosystem functioning. This global analysis shows that the relationship between fragmentation and vegetation resilience in forests may differ depending on bioclimatic region and local environmental conditions.

Yongxian Su
Chaoqun Zhang
Weiqi Zhou
Research08 Jul 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 1670-1684
Large influence of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on ecosystem production efficiency

Haibo Lu
Zhangcai Qin
Wenping Yuan
ResearchOpen Access29 Mar 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-4
Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO₂ nexus across metacoupled systems

Local human activities can lead to cross-border environmental impacts through the food–energy–water–CO₂ nexus. Here, the authors report wide variations in environmental impacts of irrigated agriculture across counties within the North China Plain under different environmental and socioeconomic scenarios.

Zhenci Xu
Xiuzhi Chen
Yunkai Li
ResearchOpen Access17 Nov 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
Physical and virtual nutrient flows in global telecoupled agricultural trade networks

This study identifies the flows of physical and virtual nutrients (N and P) within the global agricultural trade network by trade tracing, and explores strategies to improve global nutrient use efficiency using the telecoupling framework.

Xiuzhi Chen
Yue Hou
Yunkai Li
ResearchOpen Access26 Apr 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
Global pattern for the effect of climate and land cover on water yield

The effects of forests on water yield are uncertain, with some studies indicating that increased evapotranspiration reduces water yield and other showing that forests increase it. Here, the authors analyse published data to settle this debate, finding that afforestation has a positive effect on water yield.

Guoyi Zhou
Xiaohua Wei
Yongxian Su
Research09 Jan 2015
Nature Communications

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
Intranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China

The paper reveals areas of common and differentiated SDG priority at the national and subnational levels in China considering synergy and trade-off. The findings suggest that provincial governments should formulate more targeted policy aligning with national priority to achieve SDGs.

Qiang Xing
Chaoyang Wu
Zhenci Xu
ResearchOpen Access13 Mar 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-12
Author Correction: Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time

Zhenci Xu
Sophia N. Chau
Jianguo Liu
Amendments and Corrections14 Apr 2021
Nature

Volume: 592, P: E28
Prospects for global sustainable development through integrating the environmental impacts of economic activities

Economic development and its interactions with the SDGs is an important focus for sustainable future growth. This paper develops six environmental footprint indices highlighting the synergies with human production and the SDG targets.

Siqi Han
Chunding Li
Yunkai Li
ResearchOpen Access28 Sept 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-16
Comparison of accuracy in C1–C2 pedicle screw placement: O-arm, 3D guides, and C-arm fluoroscopy

Yuwei Li
Haijiao Wang
Zimin Wang
ResearchOpen Access06 May 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-10
Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

Carbon sequestration by Siberian forests has been low over the past decade due to disturbances that have decreased live biomass and increased dead wood, according to passive microwave observations.

Lei Fan
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Rasmus Fensholt
Research12 Dec 2022
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 56-62
Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature

Changes in tree cover can change surface temperatures in multiple ways. Here, the authors show an asymmetric direct biophysical effect of tree cover change, as the cooling due to tree cover gain is greater in magnitude than the warming from tree cover loss in most forests.

Yongxian Su
Chaoqun Zhang
Xiuzhi Chen
Research03 Aug 2023
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 13, P: 823-831
Impacts of rising atmospheric dryness on terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle

Atmospheric dryness is increasing as air temperatures rise because of climate change. This Review explores temporal trends and spatial heterogeneity in global atmospheric dryness and the implications for plant growth, productivity and terrestrial carbon cycling.

Wenping Yuan
Jie Tian
Xiuzhi Chen
Reviews07 Oct 2025
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 712-727
Exportin 4 depletion leads to nuclear accumulation of a subset of circular RNAs

This study identifies the evolutionarily conserved Exportin 4 as an essential regulator in the nuclear export of circRNAs. Defective circRNA export results in R-loop formation and DNA damage in cells, as well as testis and neurological defects in mice.

Liang Chen
Yucong Wang
Ge Shan
ResearchOpen Access01 Oct 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-18
Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time

Systematic methods for evaluating progress towards the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are developed and tested using 119 indicators at China’s national and subnational levels during 2000–2015, showing improvement overall.

Zhenci Xu
Sophia N. Chau
Jianguo Liu
Research01 Jan 2020
Nature

Volume: 577, P: 74-78
Correspondence: Reply to ‘Space-time asymmetry undermines water yield assessment’

Xiuzhi Chen
Xiaohua Wei
Guoyi Zhou
CorrespondenceOpen Access12 May 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-2
The prognostic and predictive potential of Ki-67 in triple-negative breast cancer

Xiuzhi Zhu
Li Chen
Zhonghua Wang
ResearchOpen Access14 Jan 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-10
ANKFY1 bridges ATG2A-mediated lipid transfer from endosomes to phagophores

Bin Wei
Yuhui Fu
Qing Zhong
ResearchOpen Access16 Apr 2024
Cell Discovery

Volume: 10, P: 1-17
Natural forest growth and human induced ecosystem disturbance influence water yield in forests

Natural forest growth does not decrease water yield and forest responses to human disturbances and management interventions vary with ecosystem complexity, according to a global meta-analysis that includes 496 watersheds and spans 25 years.

Zhen Yu
Xiuzhi Chen
Xiang Zhao
ResearchOpen Access27 Jun 2022
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 3, P: 1-8
Reply to 'Flawed assumptions compromise water yield assessment'

Ping Zhou
Qiang Li
Yongxian Su
CorrespondenceOpen Access15 Nov 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-3
Zipper-interacting protein kinase mediates neuronal cell death and cognitive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury via regulating DEDD

Yingxue Mei
Fei She
Tae Ho Lee
ResearchOpen Access04 Mar 2025
Cell Death & Disease

Volume: 16, P: 1-18
A 30-m gross primary production dataset from 2016 to 2020 in China

Shangrong Lin
Xiaojuan Huang
Wenping Yuan
ResearchOpen Access01 Oct 2024
Scientific Data

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
Chuanxiong Rhizoma regulates ferroptosis and the immune microenvironment in ischemic stroke through the JAK-STAT3 pathway

Qianxi Ge
Zhimin Wang
Yiran Chen
ResearchOpen Access28 Dec 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-17
Visceral adiposity index is strongly associated with hyperuricemia independently of metabolic health and obesity phenotypes

Huimin Dong
Yang Xu
Simiao Tian
ResearchOpen Access18 Aug 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-13
Effects of biochar-based controlled release nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen-use efficiency of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

Jiayuan Liao
Xiangrong Liu
Zhenhua Zhang
ResearchOpen Access06 Jul 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-14
A probabilistic assessment of the likelihood of vegetation drought under varying climate conditions across China

Zhiyong Liu
Chao Li
Xiuzhi Chen
ResearchOpen Access07 Oct 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-10
Comparative Proteomics Analysis Reveals L-Arginine Activates Ethanol Degradation Pathways in HepG2 Cells

Guokai Yan
Retno Lestari
Xianghua Yan
ResearchOpen Access17 Mar 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
Water-use efficiency of an old-growth forest in lower subtropical China

Xiaodong Liu
Xiuzhi Chen
Jiyue Li
ResearchOpen Access21 Feb 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-10
HiQ-FPAR: A High-Quality and Value-added MODIS Global FPAR Product from 2000 to 2023

Kai Yan
Xinpei Yu
Ranga B. Myneni
ResearchOpen Access15 Jan 2025
Scientific Data

Volume: 12, P: 1-17
SGK1 inhibition induces autophagy-dependent apoptosis via the mTOR-Foxo3a pathway

Weiwei Liu
Xuchu Wang
Zhihua Tao
ResearchOpen Access24 Aug 2017
British Journal of Cancer

Volume: 117, P: 1139-1153

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Pantropical moist forests are converging towards a middle leaf longevity

Global vegetation production may decrease in this century due to rising atmospheric dryness

Assessing global sustainability performance, imbalance, and coordination over space and time

Expression of IL-1α, IL-6, TGF-β, FasL and ZNF265 During Sertoli Cell Infection by Ureaplasma Urealyticum

A UFD1 variant encoding a microprotein modulates UFD1f and IPMK ubiquitination to play pivotal roles in anti-stress responses

Contrasting age-dependent leaf acclimation strategies drive vegetation greening across deciduous broadleaf forests in mid- to high latitudes

Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests

Large influence of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on ecosystem production efficiency

Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO₂ nexus across metacoupled systems

Physical and virtual nutrient flows in global telecoupled agricultural trade networks

Global pattern for the effect of climate and land cover on water yield

Intranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China

Author Correction: Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time

Prospects for global sustainable development through integrating the environmental impacts of economic activities

Comparison of accuracy in C1–C2 pedicle screw placement: O-arm, 3D guides, and C-arm fluoroscopy

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature

Impacts of rising atmospheric dryness on terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle

Exportin 4 depletion leads to nuclear accumulation of a subset of circular RNAs

Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time

Correspondence: Reply to ‘Space-time asymmetry undermines water yield assessment’

The prognostic and predictive potential of Ki-67 in triple-negative breast cancer

ANKFY1 bridges ATG2A-mediated lipid transfer from endosomes to phagophores

Natural forest growth and human induced ecosystem disturbance influence water yield in forests

Reply to 'Flawed assumptions compromise water yield assessment'

Zipper-interacting protein kinase mediates neuronal cell death and cognitive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury via regulating DEDD

A 30-m gross primary production dataset from 2016 to 2020 in China

Chuanxiong Rhizoma regulates ferroptosis and the immune microenvironment in ischemic stroke through the JAK-STAT3 pathway

Visceral adiposity index is strongly associated with hyperuricemia independently of metabolic health and obesity phenotypes

Effects of biochar-based controlled release nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen-use efficiency of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

A probabilistic assessment of the likelihood of vegetation drought under varying climate conditions across China

Comparative Proteomics Analysis Reveals L-Arginine Activates Ethanol Degradation Pathways in HepG2 Cells

Water-use efficiency of an old-growth forest in lower subtropical China

HiQ-FPAR: A High-Quality and Value-added MODIS Global FPAR Product from 2000 to 2023

SGK1 inhibition induces autophagy-dependent apoptosis via the mTOR-Foxo3a pathway

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