# Shilong Piao
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**Role:** Ecologist; professor at Peking University (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences) ⚠️ (department not re-checked)
- Lead author of "Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening", *Nature Reviews Earth & Environment* 1:14–27 (2020), doi:10.1038/s43017-019-0001-x. Lomborg quotes its line that greening, "together with warming, sea-level rise and sea-ice decline, represents highly credible evidence of anthropogenic climate change".
- Co-author of Zhu et al. (2016), "Greening of the Earth and its drivers" (*Nature Climate Change*), the source of the ~70% CO₂-fertilization share ⚠️ (co-authorship from memory, not re-checked).
- Cited by Lomborg in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on CO2 and Global Greening (2026-09-04)|CO2 and Global Greening]].