Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)

Part 1: 5 representative publications

1. Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., Ellision, A.M., 2020. An unusually high shrubline on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology, accepted.

2. Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Babst, F., Camarero, J.J., 2020. Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography.https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13214.

3. Lu, X., Huang, R., Wang, Y., Zhang, B., Zhu, H., Camarero, J.J., Liang, E.*, 2020. Spring hydroclimate reconstruction on the south-central Tibetan Plateau inferred from juniper shrub ring since 1605. Geophysical Research Letters 47: e2020GL087707.

4. Lu, X., Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Babst, F., Leavitt, S.W., Camarero, J.J., 2019. Past the climate optimum: Recruitment is declining at the world’s highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology 100: e02557.

5. Lu, X., Huang, R., Wang, Y., Dawadi, B., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2016. Summer temperature drives radial growth of alpine shrub willows on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research 48: 461–468.

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)

1. Fu, T., Liang, E., Lu, X.*, Gao, S., Zhang, L., Zhu, H., Rossi, S., Camarero, J.J., 2020. Tree growth responses and resilience after the 1950-Zayu-Medog earthquake, southeast Tibetan Plateau. Dendrochronologia 62: 125724.

2. Pandey, J., Sigdel, S.R., Lu, X., Salerno, F., Dawadi, B., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2020. Early growing-season precipitation drives radial growth of alpine juniper shrubs in the central Himalayas. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 102: 317–330.

3. Du, Q., Rossi, S., Lu, X., Wang, Y., Zhu, H., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2020. Negative growth responses to temperature of sympatric species converge under warming conditions on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Trees 34: 395–404.

4. Rai, S., Dawadi, B., Wang, Y., Lu, X., Huang, R., Sigdel, S.R.*, 2020. Growth response of Abies spectabilis to climate along an elevation gradient of the Manang valley in the central Himalayas. Journal of Forestry Research 31: 2245–2254.

5. Wang, Y.*, Lu, X., Zhu, H., Liang, E., 2020. Field survey and research approaches at alpine treelines (in Chinese). Advances in Earth Science 35: 38–51.

6. Lu, X.*, Sigdel, S.R., Dawadi, B., Wang, Y., 2019. Climate response of Salix oritrepha growth along a latitudinal gradient on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Dendrobiology 81:14–21.

7. Wang, Y., Case, B., Lu, X., Ellison, A.M., Pecuelas, J., Zhu, H., Liang, E.*, Camarero, J.J., 2019. Fire facilitates warming-induced upward shifts of alpine treelines by altering interspecifc interactions. Trees 33: 1051–1061.

8. Lu, X., Fu, T., Du, Q., Zhang, L., Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, 2019. Tree regeneration after fire and logging in sub-alpine forest on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (in Chinese). Chinese Science Bulletin 64: 2907–2914.

9. Bayramzadeh, V., Zhu, H.*, Lu, X., Attarod, P., Zhang, H., Li, X., Asad, F., Liang, E., 2018. Temperature variability in Northern Iran during the past 700 years. Science Bulletin 63: 462–464.

10. Zhang, Y.*, Lu, X., Wang, Y., 2018. Research progresses in treeline dynamics and driving forces in the Northern Hemisphere (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Ecology 37: 3430–3439.

11. Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Lu, X., Zhu, H., Piao, S., Zhu, L., 2017. Are treelines advancing in response to climate warming on the Tibetan Plateau (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Nature 39: 1–5.

12. Liang, E.*, Wang, Y., Piao, S., Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., Zhu, H., Zhu, L., Ellison, A.M., Ciais, P., Pecuelas, J., 2016. Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United State of America 113: 4380–4385.

13. Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Eckstein, D., 2015. Up to 400-year old Rhododendron shrubs on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: prospects for shrub-based dendrochronology. Boreas 44: 760–768.

14. Wang, Y., Liang, E.*, Ellison, A.M., Lu, X., Camarero, J.J., 2015. Facilitation stabilizes moisture-controlled alpine juniper shrublines in the central Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change 132: 20–30.

15. Lu, X., Liang, E., 2013. Progresses in dendrochronology of shrubs (in Chinese). Acta Ecologica Sinica 33:1367–1374.

16. Liang, E.*, Lu, X., Ren, P., Li, X., Zhu, L., Eckstein, D., 2012. Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy. Annals of Botany 109: 721–728.