Hongcan Guan

Aug 31, 2024 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yu Ren |Peking Beijing |Hongcan Guan |Haitao Yang

1 INTRODUCTION Giant trees (also known as extremely tall, oversized, large-diameter or big-sized trees), among Earth's largest living organisms on Earth, belong to a distinct class of trees that cannot simply be regarded as enlarged versions of their smaller counterparts.

May 14, 2024 | nature.com | Kai Cheng |Haitao Yang |Shengli Tao |Yanjun Su |Hongcan Guan |Yu Ren | +2 more

AbstractChina’s extensive planted forests play a crucial role in carbon storage, vital for climate change mitigation. However, the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of China’s planted forest area and its carbon storage remain uncaptured. Here we reveal such changes in China’s planted forests from 1990 to 2020 using satellite and field data. Results show a doubling of planted forest area, a trend that intensified post-2000.