Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation–productivity relationships: implications for climate change

AK Knapp, P Ciais, MD Smith - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation (PPT) is a primary climatic determinant of plant growth and aboveground net
primary production (ANPP) over much of the globe. Thus, PPT–ANPP relationships are …

Precipitation manipulation experiments–challenges and recommendations for the future

C Beier, C Beierkuhnlein, T Wohlgemuth… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic changes, including altered precipitation regimes, will affect key ecosystem
processes, such as plant productivity and biodiversity for many terrestrial ecosystems. Past …

Vegetation greening and climate change promote multidecadal rises of global land evapotranspiration

K Zhang, JS Kimball, RR Nemani, SW Running… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Recent studies showed that anomalous dry conditions and limited moisture supply roughly
between 1998 and 2008, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, led to reduced vegetation …

Unexpected reversal of C3 versus C4 grass response to elevated CO2 during a 20-year field experiment

PB Reich, SE Hobbie, TD Lee, MA Pastore - Science, 2018 - science.org
Theory predicts and evidence shows that plant species that use the C4 photosynthetic
pathway (C4 species) are less responsive to elevated carbon dioxide (e CO2) than species …

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: A meta‐analysis of experimental manipulation

Z Wu, P Dijkstra, GW Koch, J Peñuelas… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

Terrestrial N2O emissions and related functional genes under climate change: A global meta‐analysis

L Li, Z Zheng, W Wang, JA Biederman… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from soil contribute to global warming and are in turn
substantially affected by climate change. However, climate change impacts on N2O …

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands

AK Knapp, CJW Carroll, EM Denton, KJ La Pierre… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Terrestrial ecosystems often vary dramatically in their responses to drought, but the reasons
for this are unclear. With climate change forecasts for more frequent and extensive drought …

Climate change, nutrition, and bottom-up and top-down food web processes

AE Rosenblatt, OJ Schmitz - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Climate change ecology has focused on climate effects on trophic interactions through the
lenses of temperature effects on organismal physiology and phenological asynchronies …

Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature

WIJ Dieleman, S Vicca, FA Dijkstra… - Global change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, increased awareness of the potential interactions between rising
atmospheric CO2 concentrations ([CO2]) and temperature has illustrated the importance of …

Effects of three global change drivers on terrestrial C: N: P stoichiometry: a global synthesis

K Yue, DA Fornara, W Yang, Y Peng, Z Li… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing number of controlled‐manipulative
experiments to investigate how plants and soils might respond to global change. These …