A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes?

K Allen, JM Dupuy, MG Gei, C Hulshof… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are located in regions with alternating wet and dry
seasons, with dry seasons that last several months or more. By the end of the 21st century …

Soil carbon stock changes in tropical croplands are mainly driven by carbon inputs: A synthesis

K Fujisaki, T Chevallier, L Chapuis-Lardy… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) balance is an important component of the terrestrial carbon (C)
budget. However, effect of cropland management changes on SOC dynamics has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Rainfall seasonality and timing: implications for cereal crop production in Ethiopia

MT Wakjira, N Peleg, D Anghileri, D Molnar… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rainfall seasonality and timing are key climatic features affecting crop yield in rainfed
agriculture (RFA). We evaluated the dynamics of temporal rainfall attributes–the strength of …

The effects of soil organic matter on soil water retention and plant water use in a meadow of the Sierra Nevada, CA

KJ Ankenbauer, SP Loheide - Hydrological Processes, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tuolumne Meadows is a groundwater dependent ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada of
California, USA, that is threatened by hydrologic impacts that may lead to a substantial loss …

Terrestrial hydrological controls on land surface phenology of African savannas and woodlands

K Guan, EF Wood, D Medvigy, J Kimball… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a continental‐scale phenological analysis of African savannas and
woodlands. We apply an array of synergistic vegetation and hydrological data records from …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction in precipitation seasonality in China from 1960 to 2018

Y Mao, G Wu, G Xu, K Wang - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Changes in precipitation seasonality or the distribution of precipitation have
important impacts on hydrological extremes (eg, floods or droughts). Precipitation extremes …

Influence of rainfall variability on the vegetation dynamics over Northeastern Brazil

HA Barbosa, TVL Kumar - Journal of Arid Environments, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to examine the spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation dynamics and
explores relationships between rainfall and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) …

Climatic, ecophysiological, and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems

G Vico, SE Thompson, S Manzoni, A Molini… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Large areas in the tropics and at mid‐latitudes experience pronounced seasonality and inter‐
annual variability in rainfall and hence water availability. Despite the importance of these …

Projected changes of rainfall seasonality and dry spells in a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario

S Pascale, V Lucarini, X Feng, A Porporato… - Climate Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
In this diagnostic study we analyze changes of rainfall seasonality and dry spells by the end
of the twenty-first century under the most extreme IPCC5 emission scenario (RCP8. 5) as …