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Acknowledgements
J.L. acknowledges the Saltonstall Fellowship from Soil and Crop Science Section at Cornell University; Y.S. acknowledges the funding from NSF Macrosystem Biology (award 1926488); and D.L. acknowledges funding from NSF (no. 2039932). Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). L.K. was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States (ECOSTRESS Science and Applications Team: grant no. 80NSSC20K0215). L.G. at ORNL acknowledges the support from the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program. The funding for L.G. was through the ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences Science Focus Area. This Article was co-authored by UT-Battelle under contract no. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. This material is based on work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which is a major facility sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Cooperative Agreement no. 1852977. We acknowledge the members of the 2017 Keck Institute for Space Studies workshop “Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Space-Based Integration of Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS), CO2, and Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF)” and the discussion during the workshop.
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Lai, J., Kooijmans, L.M.J., Sun, W. et al. Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production.
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