*corresponding author, # postdoc, graduate, or undergraduate students supervised
2025
Wang, L.#, Meng, L.*, Richardson, A., Hölker, F., Li, H., Mao, J., Longcore, T., Xia, J., She D. (2025). Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons. Nature Cities, 1-12. [Link]
Li, Y. #, Meng, L.*, Richardson, A.D., Lee, X., Menzel, A., Mao, J., Diehl, J.L., Wang, A. (2025). Cooling outweighs warming across phenological transitions in the Northern Hemisphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,122(37), e2501844122. [Link]
Xiao, Q., Li, H., & Meng, L. (2025). Long-term exposure to summer heat and mortality in the southeastern US: a prospective analysis in the Southern Community Cohort Study. Environmental Research, 122878. [Link]
Wang, L., She, D., Yang, Y., Meng, L., and Xia, J. (2025). Direct and indirect effects of spring phenology on forest transpiration. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 372, 110661.[Link]
Gu, Y., Meng, L., Wang, Y., Wu, Z., Pan, Y. Zhao, Y., ... & Wu, J. (2025). Uncovering the role of solar radiation and water stress factors in constraining decadal intra‐site spring phenology variability in diverse ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere. New Phytologist, 246(5), 1986-2003.[Link]
Zhang, Y., Mao, J., Sun, G., Guo, Q., Atkins, J., Li, W., Jin, M., Song, C., Xiao, J., Hwang, T., Qiu, T., Meng, L., et al. (2025). Earth’s record-high greenness and its attributions in 2020. Remote Sensing of Environment, 316, p.114494. [Link]
2024
Xu, D., Bai, T., Yang, L., Zhou, Y., Chen, B., Xu, H., Song, Y., Yuan, Y., Cui, Y., Meng, L., and Xia, Z. (2024). Quantifying the cooling effect of urban greening driven by ecological restoration projects in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(47), 20990-21001. [Link]
Bai, L., Tian, L., Ren, Z., Song, X., Yu, K., Meng, L., Hou, Z. and Ren, H., (2024). Climate warming advances plant reproductive phenology in China’s northern grasslands. Journal of Plant Ecology, p.rtae 080. [Link]
Gimenez, B.O., Souza, D.C., Higuchi, N., Negrón-Juárez, R.I., de Jesus Sampaio-Filho, I., Araújo, A.C., Lima, A.J., Fontes, C.G., Jardine, K.J., Koven, C.D. and Meng, L., et al. (2024). Hysteresis area at the canopy level during and after a drought event in the Central Amazon. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 353, p.110052. [Link]
Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Yan, Z., Moon, M., Yang, D., Meng, L. et al. (2024) Exploring the role of biotic factors in regulating the spatial variability in land surface phenology across four temperate forest sites. New Phytologist, 242(5), 1965-1980. [Link]
2023
Li, H., Gao, W., Liu, Y., Yuan, F., Wu, M., & Meng, L. (2023). Attributing the impacts of ecological engineering and climate change on carbon uptake in Northeastern China. Landscape Ecology, 38(12), 3945-3960. [Link]
Gu, Y., Zhao, Y., Guo, Z., Meng, L., Zhang, K., et al. (2023). The underappreciated importance of solar radiation in constraining spring phenology of temperate ecosystems in the Northern and Eastern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, 113617. [Link]
Wang, L., She, D., Xia, J., Meng, L., & Li, L. (2023). Revegetation affects the response of land surface phenology to climate in Loess Plateau, China. Science of The Total Environment, 860, 160383. [Link]
2022
Meng, L., Chambers, J., Koven, C., Pastorello, G., Gimenez, B. et al. (2022) Soil moisture thresholds explain a shift from light-limited to water-limited sap velocity in the Central Amazon during the 2015-16 El Niño drought. Environmental Research Letter, 17, 064023. [Link]
Meng, L., Zhou, Y., Román, M., Stokes, E., Wang, Z., Asrar, G., Mao, J., Richardson, A., Gu, L., Wang, Y. (2022) Artificial light at night: an under-appreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants. PNAS Nexus, 1(2), pgac046. [Link]
Zhou, Y., Li, X., Chen, W., Meng, L., Wu, Q., Gong, P., & Seto, K. C. (2022). Satellite mapping of urban built-up heights reveals extreme infrastructure gaps and inequalities in the Global South. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(46), 2214813119. [Link]
2021
Meng, L. (2021). Green with phenology, Science, 374: 1065-1066. [Link]
Meng, L., Mao, J., Ricciuto, D.M., Shi, X., Richardson, A., Hanson, P.J., Warren, J., Zhou, Y., Li, X., Zhang, L., Schädeld, C. (2021). Evaluation and Modification of ELM Seasonal Deciduous Phenology against Observations in a Southern Boreal Peatland Forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 308, 108556. [Link]
Meng, L., Zhou, Y., Gu L., Richardson, A., Peñuelas, J., Fu, Y., et al. (2021). Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming. Global Change Biology, 27.12: 2914-2927. [Link]
Shi, X., Ricciuto, D.M., Thornton, P.E., Xu, X., Yuan, F., Norby, R.J., Walker, A.P., Warren, J., Mao, J., Hanson, P.J., Meng, L., Weston D., and Griffiths N. (2021). Extending a land-surface model with Sphagnum moss to simulate responses of a northern temperate bog to whole ecosystem warming and elevated CO2. Biogeosciences, 18: 467-486. [Link]
2020
Meng, L., Mao, J., Zhou, Y., Richardson, A., Lee, X., Thornton, P., Ricciuto, D., Li, X., Dai, Y., Shi, X., & Jia, G. (2020). Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces temperature response of phenology in the conterminous United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(8), 4228-4233. [Link]
Meng, L., Zhou, Y., Li, X., Asrar, G. R., Mao, J., Wanamaker Jr, A. D., & Wang, Y. (2020). Divergent responses of spring phenology to daytime and nighttime warming. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 281, 107832. [Link]
Before 2020
Li, X., Zhou, Y., Meng, L., Asrar, G. R., Lu, C., & Wu, Q. (2019). A dataset of 30 m annual vegetation phenology indicators (1985–2015) in urban areas of the conterminous United States. Earth System Science Data, 11(2), 881-894. [Link]
Li, X., Zhou, Y., Meng, L., Asrar, G., Sapkota, A., & Coates, F. (2019). Characterizing the relationship between satellite phenology and pollen season: A case study of birch. Remote Sensing of Environment, 222, 267-274. [Link]
Li, H., Zhou, Y., Li, X., Meng, L., Wang, X., Wu, S., & Sodoudi, S. (2018). A new method to quantify surface urban heat island intensity. Science of the Total Environment, 624, 262-272. [Link]
Li, X., Zhou, Y., Asrar, G. R., & Meng, L. (2017). Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics in phenology of urban ecosystems based on Landsat. Science of the Total Environment, 605, 721-734. [Link]
Meng, L., Wang, C., & Zhang, J. (2016). Heat injury risk assessment for single-cropping rice in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River under climate change. Journal of Meteorological Research, 30(3), 426-443. [Link]