
Tong Qiu is a broadly trained ecologist interested in understanding the response of the terrestrial ecosystem to global change at regional to global scales. His lab takes a data-model synthesis approach that integrates satellite and airborne remote sensing, monitoring networks, and forest inventory with statistical models to develop nature-based solutions to fight climate change. Specifically, his lab has a couple of research themes: 1) Deriving habitat characteristics for forest trees and the vast community it supports using combined LiDAR and Hyperspectral imagery; 2) Revealing the climate-habitat interactions that govern biodiversity change; 3) Understanding variations in seed production and how they related to climate, nutrient availability, and species traits; 4) Evaluating forest regeneration from fecundity to seedling recruitment to adult trees; 5) Balancing human needs (e.g ., food and water) with the needs of wildlife species (e.g., habitat and healthy soil).
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How to measure mast seeding?
Bogdziewicz, M., Calama, R., Courbaud, B., Espelta, J. M., Hacket-Pain, A., Journé, V., Kunstler, G., Steele, M., Qiu, T., Zywiec, M. & Clark, J. S., Aug 2023, In: New Phytologist. 239, 3, p. 830-838 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees
Bogdziewicz, M., Acuña, M. C. A., Andrus, R., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Brveiller, D., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Cailleret, M., Calama, R., Calderon, S. D., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C. H., Chave, J., Chianucci, F., Cleavitt, N. L., Courbaud, B., Cutini, A., Curt, T., & 75 others , May 2023, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 5, p. 683-694 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Habitat–trait interactions that control response to climate change: North American ground beetles (Carabidae)
Qiu, T., Bell, A. J., Swenson, J. J. & Clark, J. S., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32, 6, p. 987-1001 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China
Wu, C., Li, C., Ouyang, L., Xiao, H., Wu, J., Zhuang, M., Bi, X., Li, J., Wang, C., Song, C., Qiu, T., Haase, D., Hahs, A. & Finka, M., Apr 2023, In: Landscape Ecology. 38, 4, p. 1105-1124 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients
Journé, V., Andrus, R., Aravena, M. C., Ascoli, D., Berretti, R., Berveiller, D., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C. H., Courbaud, B., Courbet, F., Curt, T., Das, A. J., Daskalakou, E., Davi, H., Delpierre, N., & 74 others , Jun 2022, In: Ecology Letters. 25, 6, p. 1471-1482 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
Qiu, T., Andrus, R., Aravena, M. C., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Berretti, R., Berveiller, D., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Bragg, D. C., Caignard, T., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C. H., Cleavitt, N. L., Courbaud, B., Courbet, F., Curt, T., Das, A. J., & 83 others , Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 2381.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Disaggregating climatic and anthropogenic influences on vegetation changes in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China
Jiang, M., He, Y., Song, C., Pan, Y., Qiu, T. & Tian, S., Sep 10 2021, In: Science of the Total Environment. 786, 147574.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence
Qiu, T., Aravena, M. C., Andrus, R., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Berretti, R., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Clark, C. J., Courbaud, B., Delzon, S., Calderon, S. D., Farfan-Rios, W., Gehring, C. A., Gilbert, G. S., Greenberg, C. H., & 41 others , Aug 24 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 34, e2106130118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Niche Shifts From Trees to Fecundity to Recruitment That Determine Species Response to Climate Change
Qiu, T., Sharma, S., Woodall, C. W. & Clark, J. S., Dec 23 2021, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 719141.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Deriving annual double-season cropland phenology using landsat imagery
Qiu, T., Song, C. & Li, J., Oct 2 2020, In: Remote Sensing. 12, 20, p. 1-15 15 p., 3275.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Understanding the continuous phenological development at daily time step with a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model: impacts of climate change and extreme weather events
Qiu, T., Song, C., Clark, J. S., Seyednasrollah, B., Rathnayaka, N. & Li, J., Sep 15 2020, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 247, 111956.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Urbanization and climate change jointly shift land surface phenology in the northern mid-latitude large cities
Qiu, T., Song, C., Zhang, Y., Liu, H. & Vose, J. M., Jan 2020, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 236, 111477.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China's conversion of cropland to forest program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau
Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Tao, S., Bilsborrow, R. E., Qiu, T., Liu, C., Sannigrahi, S., Li, Q. & Song, C., Oct 2020, In: Ecosystem Services. 45, 101167.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Impacts of urbanization on vegetation phenology over the past three decades in Shanghai, China
Qiu, T., Song, C. & Li, J., Sep 1 2017, In: Remote Sensing. 9, 9, 970.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review