Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

TJ Brodribb, J Powers, H Cochard, B Choat - Science, 2020 - science.org
Trees are the living foundations on which most terrestrial biodiversity is built. Central to the
success of trees are their woody bodies, which connect their elevated photosynthetic …

Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states

RD Bardgett, T Caruso - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A major challenge for advancing our understanding of the functional role of soil microbial
communities is to link changes in their structure and function under climate change. To …

Relationships of stomatal morphology to the environment across plant communities

C Liu, L Sack, Y Li, J Zhang, K Yu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationship between stomatal traits and environmental drivers across plant
communities has important implications for ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, but it has …

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

JS Powers, G Vargas G, TJ Brodribb… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐related tree mortality is now a widespread phenomenon predicted to increase in
magnitude with climate change. However, the patterns of which species and trees are most …

The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function

P Yan, M Fernández‐Martínez… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is essential for maintaining the terrestrial ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF).
Recent studies have revealed that the variations in terrestrial ecosystem functions are …

Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands

RJ Griffin‐Nolan, DM Blumenthal, SL Collins… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits can provide unique insights into plant performance at the community scale.
Functional composition, defined by both functional diversity and community‐weighted trait …

A deep learning-based framework for multi-source precipitation fusion

K Gavahi, E Foroumandi, H Moradkhani - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) is essential for various applications,
including land surface modeling, flood forecasting, drought monitoring and prediction. In situ …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled regulatory mechanisms and synergy/trade-off strategies of human activity and climate change on ecosystem service value in the loess hilly fragile …

Z He, X Shang, T Zhang, J Yun - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Geographic and temporal patterns of ecosystem service value (ESV) and their dynamic
coupling response to human activity and climate change are critical for allocating land …

Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?

AK Knapp, KV Condon, CC Folks… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We review results from field experiments that simulate drought, an ecologically impactful
global change threat that is predicted to increase in magnitude, extent, duration and …

Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands

W Luo, RJ Griffin‐Nolan, W Ma, B Liu, X Zuo, C Xu… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme drought decreases aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in most
grasslands, but the magnitude of ANPP reductions varies especially in C3‐dominated …