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  1. Competition and vapor pressure deficit drive the mortality of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) in the eastern Qilian mountains

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  2. Exacerbated Variability and Extremes in Streamflow Across Half of China From 1961 to 2018

    Article • Water Resources Research, December 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  3. Enhanced moisture-sensitivity increased the growth variability of Picea purpurea in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of Forestry Research, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  4. A Millennium of ENSO Influence on Jet Stream Driven Summer Climate Extremes

    Article • AGU Advances, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  5. Climate suitability for the moisture-sensitive conifer species may not be universally declining in a warming world

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  6. Jet stream controls on European climate and agriculture since 1300 ce

    Article • Nature, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  7. Management can mitigate drought legacy effects on the growth of a moisture-sensitive conifer tree species

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  8. A Seasonally Varying Tree Physiological Response to Environmental Conditions: Results From Semi‐Arid China

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, July 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  9. Intra-annual tree-ring δ18O and δ13C reveal a trade-off between isotopic source and humidity in moist environments

    Article • Tree Physiology, July 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  10. Strongly Active Responses of Pinus tabuliformis Carr. and Sophora viciifolia Hance to CO2 Enrichment and Drought Revealed by Tree-Ring Isotopes on the Central China Loess Plateau

    Article • Forests, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Guobao Xu

  11. Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  12. 800 years of summer European-North Atlantic jet stream variability and its impact on climate extremes and human systems

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Guobao Xu

  13. Europe-Atlantic jet caused dipole mode of European climate and increased climatic extremes

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Guobao Xu

  14. Jet stream position connected to atmospheric blocking drives regional anomalies in European forest productivity

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Guobao Xu

  15. Seasonal divergence between soil water availability and atmospheric moisture recorded in intra-annual tree-ring δ18O extremes

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, May 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Guobao Xu

  16. Young trees have the potential to improve climate reconstruction

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, April 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  17. Similar potential of foliar δ13C and silicon levels for inferring local climate information in the Tibetan Plateau region

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  18. Tibetan Plateau temperature variability in the past 1000 years

    Article • Climate Dynamics, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  19. CO 2 fertilization confounds tree ring records of regional hydroclimate at northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Earth and Space Science, April 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  20. Leaf Age Compared to Tree Age Plays a Dominant Role in Leaf δ13C and δ15N of Qinghai Spruce (Picea crassifolia Kom.)

    Article • Forests, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Guobao Xu

  21. Disentangling Contributions of CO2 Concentration and Climate to Changes in Intrinsic Water-Use Efficiency in the Arid Boreal Forest in China’s Altay Mountains

    Article • Forests, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Guobao Xu

  22. Application and verification of simultaneous determination of cellulose δ13C and δ18O in Picea shrenkiana tree rings from northwestern China using the high-temperature pyrolysis method

    Article • Journal of Arid Land, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  23. Increased mercury pollution revealed by tree rings from the China’s Tianshan Mountains

    Article • Science Bulletin, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  24. Unstable relationships between tree ring δ18O and climate variables over southwestern China: possible impacts from increasing central Pacific SSTs

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  25. Spatiotemporal variability of drought in the northern part of northeast China

    Article • Hydrological Processes, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Guobao Xu

  26. Drought changes in Central Asia and Xinjiang, China

    Article • Climate Dynamics, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  27. Age-dependent impacts of climate change and intrinsic water-use efficiency on the growth of Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana) in the western Tianshan Mountains, China

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  28. Anthropogenic-management could mitigate declines in growth and survival of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) in the east Qilian Mountains, northeast Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  29. OUP accepted manuscript

    Article • Tree Physiology, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  30. Species-specific tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency of Dahurian larch ( Larix gmelinii ) and Mongolian pine ( Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica ) growing in a boreal permafrost region of the Greater Hinggan Mountains, Northeastern China

    Article • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  31. Climate signals in tree-ring δ18 O and δ13 C from southeastern Tibet: insights from observations and forward modelling of intra- to interdecadal variability

    Article • New Phytologist, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Guobao Xu

  32. Reconstructed Inter-Annual Variation in September–October Precipitation for the Upper Reaches of the Heihe River and Its Implications for Regional Drought Conditions

    Article • Forests, July 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Guobao Xu

  33. Tree ring δ18 O reveals no long-term change of atmospheric water demand since 1800 in the northern Great Hinggan Mountains, China

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Guobao Xu

  34. Reconstructed annual mean temperatures for the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with the East Asian monsoons and volcanic events

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bo Wang, Dr Guobao Xu

  35. Seasonal incursion of Indian Monsoon humidity and precipitation into the southeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau inferred from tree ring δO18 values with intra-seasonal resolution

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  36. Temperature signal instability of tree-ring δ 13 C chronology in the northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  37. Alpine timberline population dynamics under climate change, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Boreas, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bo Wang, Dr Guobao Xu

  38. Qinghai spruce growth–climate response between lower and upper elevation gradient limits

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bo Wang, Dr Guobao Xu

  39. Differential response of Qilian juniper radial growth to climate variations in the middle of Qilian Mountains and the northeastern Qaidam Basin

    Article • Climatic Change, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  40. Tree ringδ18O's indication of a shift to a wetter climate since the 1880s in the western Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  41. Long-term variation of tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency in Schrenk spruce with increasing CO2 concentration and climate warming in the western Tianshan Mountains, China

    Article • Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  42. Elevation-dependent variations of tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency in Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana) in the western Tianshan Mountains, China

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, May 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Guobao Xu

  43. Pooled versus separate tree-ring δD measurements, and implications for reconstruction of the Arctic Oscillation in northwestern China

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  44. Tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency of inland riparian forests in northwestern China: evaluation via  13C and  18O analysis of tree rings

    Article • Tree Physiology, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  45. A shift in cloud cover over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1600: evidence from regional tree-ring δ18O and its linkages to tropical oceans

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  46. Tree-ring growth recovers, but δ13C and δ15N do not change, after the removal of point-source air pollution: a case study for poplar (Populus cathayana) in northwestern China

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  47. Recent strengthening of correlations between tree-ring δ13C and δ18O in mesic western China: Implications to climatic reconstruction and physiological responses

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  48. Relative humidity reconstruction for northwestern China’s Altay Mountains using tree-ring δ18O

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  49. Tree-ring δ18 O evidence for the drought history of eastern Tianshan Mountains, northwest China since 1700 AD

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Guobao Xu

  50. No altitude-dependent effects of climatic signals are recorded in Smith fir tree-ring δ18O on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, despite a shift in tree growth

    Article • Boreas, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Guobao Xu

  51. Relative humidity history on the Batang–Litang Plateau of western China since 1755 reconstructed from tree-ring δ18O and δD

    Article • Climate Dynamics, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  52. Drought history inferred from tree ring δ 13C and δ 18O in the central Tianshan Mountains of China and linkage with the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  53. Moisture variations over the past millennium characterized by Qaidam Basin tree-ring δ 18O

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  54. A 400-year tree-ring δ18O chronology for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for inferring variations of the regional hydroclimate

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  55. Climate warming and increasing atmospheric CO2 have contributed to increased intrinsic water-use efficiency on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1850

    Article • Trees, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  56. Age-dependent tree-ring growth responses of Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana) to climate—A case study in the Tianshan Mountain, China

    Article • Dendrochronologia, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  57. Increased intrinsic water-use efficiency during a period with persistent decreased tree radial growth in northwestern China: Causes and implications

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu

  58. Specific climatic signals recorded in earlywood and latewood δ18O of tree rings in southwestern China

    Article • Tellus B, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Guobao Xu

  59. A 200 year temperature record from tree ringδ13C at the Qaidam Basin of the Tibetan Plateau after identifying the optimum method to correct for changing atmospheric CO2andδ13C

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  60. Tree ring stable isotope recorded the monsoon decrease

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Guobao Xu

  61. Summer temperature variations recorded in tree-ring δ13C values on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guobao Xu

  62. Climatic significance of tree-ring δ18O in the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China and its relationship to atmospheric circulation patterns

    Article • Chemical Geology, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Guobao Xu