A headshot of Jingfeng Xiao, a research associate professor in the Earth Systems Research Center.

Jingfeng Xiao

Research Professor
Phone: (603) 862-1873
Office: Morse Hall, Room 477, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D., Remote Sensing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.S., Beijing University
  • B.S., Lanzhou University

Selected Publications

  • Zhou, D., Xiao, J., Liu, S., Huang, L., Zhang, L., Fan, J., & Zhao, S. (2026). Global impacts of transportation infrastructure on forest degradation and loss.. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-69150-4

  • Xue, M., Yang, X., Chen, X., Ciais, P., Zhou, L., Reich, P. B., . . . Wu, C. (2026). Pantropical moist forests are converging towards a middle leaf longevity.. Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-68989-x

  • Wang, X., Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Wang, L., Buchmann, N., Keenan, T. F., . . . Niu, S. (2026). Global distribution and changes of leaf-level intrinsic water use efficiency and their responses to water stress.. Nat Commun, 17(1), 1530. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-68252-9

  • Ma, T., He, W., Fang, S., Xiao, J., Nguyen, N. T., Yang, H., . . . Huang, Z. (2026). Temporal Memory Mechanisms and Biome-Specific Drivers of Ecosystem Carbon Flux: Insights From Explainable Deep Learning Modeling.. Glob Chang Biol, 32(1), e70722. doi:10.1111/gcb.70722

  • Xiao, J., Baldocchi, D., Ichii, K., Li, F., & Papale, D. (2025). Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7(1), 60-79. doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00743-1

  • Zhou, D., Xiao, J., Bonafoni, S., Berger, C., Deilami, K., Zhou, Y., . . . Sobrino, J. A. (2019). Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives. REMOTE SENSING, 11(1). doi:10.3390/rs11010048

  • Heffernan, J. B., Soranno, P. A., Jr, A. M. J., Buckley, L. B., Gruner, D. S., Keitt, T. H., . . . Weathers, K. C. (2014). Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 12(1), 5-14. doi:10.1890/130017

  • Richardson, A. D., Anderson, R. S., Arain, M. A., Barr, A. G., Bohrer, G., Chen, G., . . . Xue, Y. (2012). Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: Results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Global Change Biology, 18(2), 566-584. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02562.x

  • Amiro, B. D., Barr, A. G., Barr, J. G., Black, T. A., Bracho, R., Brown, M., . . . Xiao, J. (2010). Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES, 115. doi:10.1029/2010JG001390

  • Xiao, J., & Moody, A. (2005). A comparison of methods for estimating fractional green vegetation cover within a desert-to-upland transition zone in central New Mexico, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment, 98(2-3), 237-250. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.07.011

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