Giri Kattel

Vegetation growth due to CO2 fertilization is threatened by increasing vapor pressure deficit

S Li, G Wang, C Zhu, J Lu, W Ullah, D Fiifi Tawia Hagan, G Kattel, Y Liu, Z Zhang, Y Song, S Sun, Y Zheng, J Peng

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Hydrology

Numerous studies found that the CO2 fertilization effect can enhance vegetation growth, however, some recent studies showed that t..

Channel abandonment alters trophic characteristics of highland rivers.

Xiongdong Zhou, Mengzhen Xu, Giri Kattel, Jiahao Zhang, Yibo Liu, Congcong Wang

Journal article  |  2023  |  Water Res

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) serves as a collection of unique ecosystems featured as oligotrophic and hypometabolic conditions,..

Reconstructing long-term global satellite-based soil moisture data using deep learning method

Y Hu, G Wang, X Wei, F Zhou, G Kattel, SOY Amankwah, DFT Hagan, Z Duan

Journal article  |  2023  |  Frontiers in Earth Science

Soil moisture is an essential component for the planetary balance between land surface water and energy. Obtaining long-term globa..

Reconfiguration of ecohydrology as a sustainability tool for Himalayan waterways

Giri RR Kattel, Chunying Wu

Journal article  |  2023  |  ECOHYDROLOGY

Twenty first century faces unprecedented challenges for the management of global waterways. The Himalayan waterways in Asia are ex..

Advancing potential of diatom indicators for stream and lake water quality assessment against nutrient-induced pollution

B Liu, W Hou, G Kattel, D Li, X Yan

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Applied Phycology

Algae have a long history of use in indicating ecological condition of streams and lakes. Various algae-based indicators have been..

Macroinvertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning across the eutrophication gradients of the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River lakes (China).

Yongjiu Cai, Rui Dong, Giri Kattel, You Zhang, Kai Peng, Zhijun Gong

Journal article  |  2023  |  Ecol Evol

Biodiversity, which strengthens ecosystem stability, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services, is threatened by anthropogenic pe..

Slightly enhanced drought in the Yellow River Basin under future warming scenarios

Chun Li, Giri Raj Kattel, Jing Zhang, Yi Shang, Kaushal Raj Gnyawali, Feng Zhang, Lijuan Miao

Journal article  |  2022  |  ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China has been frequently featured as one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change and climatic ..

Disintegrating the impact of climate change on maize yield from human management practices in China

Y Yu, Z Jiang, G Wang, GR Kattel, X Chuai, Y Shang, Y Zou, L Miao

Journal article  |  2022  |  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Climate warming has posed one of the greatest threats to global food security during the 21st century. Evidence suggests that such..

Historical nitrogen fertilizer use in China from 1952 to 2018

Zhen Yu, Jing Liu, Giri Kattel

Journal article  |  2022  |  EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA

China ranks in the highest position for nitrogen (N) fertilizer consumption in the world. Although N fertilizer use has greatly co..

Forest expansion dominates China's land carbon sink since 1980

Zhen Yu, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, Richard A Houghton, Chaoqun Lu, Hanqin Tian, Evgenios Agathokleous, Giri Raj Kattel, Stephen Sitch, Daniel Goll, Xu Yue, Anthony Walker, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K Jain, Shirong Liu, Guoyi Zhou

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Carbon budget accounting relies heavily on Food and Agriculture Organization land-use data reported by governments. Here we develo..