Deficit irrigation and sustainable water-resource strategies in agriculture for China's food security

T Du, S Kang, J Zhang, WJ Davies - Journal of experimental …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
More than 70% of fresh water is used in agriculture in many parts of the world, but
competition for domestic and industrial water use is intense. For future global food security …

Carbon isotopes and water use efficiency: sense and sensitivity

U Seibt, A Rajabi, H Griffiths, JA Berry - Oecologia, 2008 - Springer
We revisit the relationship between plant water use efficiency and carbon isotope signatures
(δ 13 C) of plant material. Based on the definitions of intrinsic, instantaneous and integrated …

Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017

Y Zhang, D Kong, R Gan, FHS Chiew… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate quantification of terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understand the
Earth's energy and water budgets under climate change. However, despite water and …

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

BE Medlyn, RA Duursma, D Eamus… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Models of vegetation function are widely used to predict the effects of climate
change on carbon, water and nutrient cycles of terrestrial ecosystems, and their feedbacks to …

Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale

W Peters, IR van der Velde, E Van Schaik, JB Miller… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Severe droughts in the Northern Hemisphere cause a widespread decline of agricultural
yield, the reduction of forest carbon uptake, and increased CO2 growth rates in the …

Temporal and among‐site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level

C Beer, P Ciais, M Reichstein… - Global …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Half‐hourly measurements of the net exchanges of carbon dioxide and water vapor between
terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere provide estimates of gross primary production …

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

MG De Kauwe, BE Medlyn, S Zaehle… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Predicted responses of transpiration to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2) are
highly variable amongst process‐based models. To better understand and constrain this …

[图书][B] The handbook of groundwater engineering

JW Delleur - 2006 - books.google.com
A complete treatment of the theory and practice of groundwater engineering, The Handbook
of Groundwater Engineering, Second Edition provides a current and detailed review of how …

[图书][B] Porous and complex flow structures in modern technologies

A Bejan - 2004 - books.google.com
Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies represents a new approach
to the field, considering the fundamentals of porous media in terms of the key roles played …

Carbon isotope discrimination indicates improving water‐use efficiency of trees in northern Eurasia over the last 100 years

M Saurer, RTW Siegwolf… - Global Change …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the response of conifer trees in northern Eurasia to climate change and
increasing CO2 over the last century by measuring the carbon isotope ratio in tree rings …