Mark G. Henderson

About

Mark G. Henderson is a Professor and Program Coordinator for the Master of Public Administration and Master of Public Policy at Mills College, located on the Oakland campus. His professional interests encompass environmental policy in the United States and China, urbanization and land use planning, global climate change, and the policy applications of geographic information science (GIS). Henderson holds a BA from Williams College, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on addressing critical environmental and urban issues through policy and technological applications, contributing to the academic and practical understanding of sustainable development and environmental governance.

Research topics

• Geography
• Ecology
• Environmental science
• Physical geography
• Meteorology
• Biology
• Geology
• Climatology
• Atmospheric sciences
• Agroforestry

Selected publications

• Vegetation Greening, Extended Growing Seasons, and Temperature Feedbacks in Warming Temperate Grasslands of China

  Journal of Climate · 2022 · 134 citations

  Abstract Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As one of the world’s great biomes, temperate grasslands have undergone remarkable changes in recent decades, but the connections between vegetation activity and phenology changes and regional climate there have remained unclear. Using the observation minus reanalysis (OMR) method, this study investigated…

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• Critical role of water conditions in the responses of autumn phenology of marsh wetlands to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau

  Global Change Biology · 2023 · 57 citations

  The Tibetan Plateau, housing 20% of China's wetlands, plays a vital role in the regional carbon cycle. Examining the phenological dynamics of wetland vegetation in response to climate change is crucial for understanding its impact on the ecosystem. Despite this importance, the specific effects of climate change on wetland vegetation phenology in this region remain uncertain. In this study, we investigated the influence of climate change on the end of the growing season (EOS) of marsh wetland veg…

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• Shelterbelt Structure and Crop Protection from Increased Typhoon Activity in Northeast China

  Agriculture · 2021 · 22 citations

  Global warming has led to increases in the frequency and intensity of typhoons. In recent years, super typhoons have had a greater impact on agriculture in the black soil farmland of Northeast China, posing serious threats to crop growth. Planting trees as windbreaks and to reduce erosion is common in this region, but their protective effects against crop damage from typhoons is still unknown. This paper studied the protective effect of different shelterbelt structures on crops that encountered…

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• Effects of Shelterbelt Transformation on Soil Aggregates Characterization and Erodibility in China Black Soil Farmland

  Agriculture · 2022-11-14 · 20 citations

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  Farmland shelterbelts are widely used to reduce wind erosion, maintaining the ecological and food security of the black soil plain region of northeast China. In recent years, the protective effect of shelterbelts has been reduced due to tree degeneration. Efforts have been made to transform the construction of shelterbelts to conserve the stability of soil aggregates and enhance protection against erosion, however, the results are not well understood. To evaluate the impact of shelterbelt transf…

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• Climatology of the Soil Surface Diurnal Temperature Range in a Warming World: Annual Cycles, Regional Patterns, and Trends in China

  Earth s Future · 2022-01-01 · 11 citations

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  Abstract The soil surface diurnal temperature range (SSDTR), reflecting the synchronicity of changes in the daily extremes of soil surface temperatures, provides an important and sensitive indicator of climate change. The climatology of SSDTR and its trends have a strong connection with the land surface energy budget, but this has received little notice up to now. Our research examines the spatial‐temporal characteristics of the annual cycle of SSDTR and its connection with other climate variabl…

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Frequent coauthors

• G. William Skinner

  50 shared

• Xiangjin Shen

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  33 shared

• Binhui Liu

  Northeast Forestry University

  30 shared

• Ming Xu

  Northeast Electric Power University

  20 shared

• Wanying Zhou

  Northeast Forestry University

  15 shared

• Zumou Yue

  13 shared

• Binhui Liu

  13 shared

• Daowei Zhou

  Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology

  13 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Williams College

• M.A.

  Harvard University

• Ph.D.

  University of California, Berkeley

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