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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the NASA Earth Science Division. We thank CRU, NSIDC, NASA MODIS Project, CAVM team and the CMIP5 climate modelling groups (listed in Supplementary Table S7) for making their data available. The authors thank U. S. Bhatt, H. E. Epstein, G. R. North, M. K. Raynolds, A. R. Stine, G. Schmidt and D. A. Walker for their comments on various parts of this article.

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  1. L. Xu and R. B. Myneni: These authors contributed equally to this work

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    L. Xu, R. B. Myneni, Z. Zhu, J. Bi & B. T. Anderson
  2. Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA
    F. S. Chapin III & E. S. Euskirchen
  3. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 104 05 Stockholm, PO Box 50005, Sweden
    T. V. Callaghan
  4. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
    T. V. Callaghan
  5. Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
    J. E. Pinzon & C. J. Tucker
  6. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, Cedex, France
    P. Ciais
  7. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Fram-High North Research Center for Climate and the Environment, N-9296 Tromsø, Norway
    H. Tømmervik
  8. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
    B. C. Forbes
  9. Department of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
    S. L. Piao
  10. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
    S. L. Piao
  11. Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
    S. Ganguly
  12. NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
    R. R. Nemani
  13. The Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540, USA
    S. J. Goetz & P. S. A. Beck
  14. Department of Environmental Sciences, Huxley College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
    A. G. Bunn
  15. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    C. Cao
  16. School of Resource and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China
    C. Cao
  17. National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
    J. C. Stroeve

Authors

  1. L. Xu
  2. R. B. Myneni
  3. F. S. Chapin III
  4. T. V. Callaghan
  5. J. E. Pinzon
  6. C. J. Tucker
  7. Z. Zhu
  8. J. Bi
  9. P. Ciais
  10. H. Tømmervik
  11. E. S. Euskirchen
  12. B. C. Forbes
  13. S. L. Piao
  14. B. T. Anderson
  15. S. Ganguly
  16. R. R. Nemani
  17. S. J. Goetz
  18. P. S. A. Beck
  19. A. G. Bunn
  20. C. Cao
  21. J. C. Stroeve

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The analysis was performed by X.L., R.B.M, Z.Z and J.B. All authors contributed with ideas, writing and discussions.

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Xu, L., Myneni, R., Chapin III, F. et al. Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands.Nature Clim Change 3, 581–586 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1836

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