Yidi Xu¹, Philippe Ciais², Maurizio Santoro³, Clément Bourgoin⁴, François Ritter⁵, Agnes Pellissier-Tanon⁶, Yu Feng⁷, Chuanlong Zhou⁸, Guojin He⁹, Viola Heinrich¹⁰, Simon Besnard¹¹, Nathaniel Robinson¹², Susan Cook-Patton¹³, Jérome Chave¹⁴, Luiz Aragao¹⁵, Jean Pierre Ometto¹⁶, Simon Bowring⁶, Ibrahim Fayad¹, Lei Zhu¹⁷, Yang Su¹, Wigneron Jean-Pierre¹⁸ and Wei Li¹⁹, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (3)Gamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland, (4)Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (7)Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China, (8)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l’Environnement LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (9)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ), Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany, (11)German Research Centre for GeoSciences, Potsdam, Germany, (12)CIFOR-ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya, (13)The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, United States, (14)CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Toulouse, France, (15)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (16)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (17)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (18)ISPA, UMR 1391, INRA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Villenave-d'Ornon, France, (19)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China