The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Water stable isotopes (18O and 2H) are widely used as ideal tracers to track water through
the soil and to separate evaporation from transpiration. Due to the technical developments in …

The measurement and simulation of water vapor isotopic composition has matured rapidly
over the last decade, with long‐term data sets and comprehensive modeling capabilities …

▪ Abstract The use of stable isotope techniques in plant ecological research has grown
steadily during the past two decades. This trend will continue as investigators realize that …

Forest fires are growing in size and frequency across the tropics. Continually eroding
fragmented forest edges, they are unintended ecological disturbances that transcend …

▪ Abstract Managed grazing covers more than 25% of the global land surface and has a
larger geographic extent than any other form of land use. Grazing systems persist under …

The most important sources of atmospheric moisture at the global scale are herein identified,
both oceanic and terrestrial, and a characterization is made of how continental regions are …

Variations in speleothem oxygen-isotope values (δ18O) result from a complicated interplay
of environmental controls and processes in the ocean, atmosphere, soil zone, epikarst, and …

Severe drought episodes such as those associated with El Niño Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) events influence large areas of tropical forest and may become more frequent in the …

Photosynthesis and respiration impart distinct isotopic signatures to the atmosphere that are
used to constrain global carbon source/sink estimates and partition ecosystem fluxes …