Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

C Grossiord, TN Buckley, LA Cernusak… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent decades have been characterized by increasing temperatures worldwide, resulting
in an exponential climb in vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD has been identified as an …

Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and …

X Li, J Xiao, B He, M Altaf Arain, J Beringer… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has been increasingly used as a proxy for
terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). Previous work mainly evaluated the relationship …

Long-term hydrological response to forest harvest during seasonal low flow: Potential implications for current forest practices

AA Coble, H Barnard, E Du, S Johnson, J Jones… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Seasonal changes in the magnitude and duration of streamflow can have important
implications for aquatic species, drinking water supplies, and water quality. In many regions …

[HTML][HTML] Large trees dominate carbon storage in forests east of the cascade crest in the United States Pacific Northwest

DJ Mildrexler, LT Berner, BE Law… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Large-diameter trees store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon and are a major
driver of carbon cycle dynamics in forests worldwide. In the temperate forests of the western …

Response of ecosystem intrinsic water use efficiency and gross primary productivity to rising vapor pressure deficit

Q Zhang, DL Ficklin, S Manzoni, L Wang… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Elevated vapor pressure deficit (VPD) due to drought and warming is well-known to limit
canopy stomatal and surface conductance, but the impacts of elevated VPD on ecosystem …

Drivers of the water use efficiency changes in China during 1982–2015

H Sun, Y Bai, M Lu, J Wang, Y Tuo, D Yan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the drivers of water use efficiency (WUE), a key metric of water
resources management, and its changes over eight regions across China from 1982 to 2015 …

Seasonal variability of forest sensitivity to heat and drought stresses: a synthesis based on carbon fluxes from North American forest ecosystems

B Xu, MA Arain, TA Black, BE Law… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate extremes such as heat waves and droughts are projected to occur more frequently
with increasing temperature and an intensified hydrological cycle. It is important to …

Modification of surface energy balance during springtime: The relative importance of biophysical and meteorological changes

M Moon, D Li, W Liao, AJ Rigden, MA Friedl - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
In ecosystems characterized by strong seasonality in leaf area, the emergence of leaves
during springtime modifies land surface energy balance by altering surface biophysical …

Reply to: Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated

S Luyssaert, ED Schulze, A Knohl, BE Law, P Ciais… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Luyssaert et al. 1 reported that unmanaged, old-growth forests continue to sequester
atmospheric carbon (C) at a rate of 2.4±0.8 Mg C ha–1 yr–1 for stand ages exceeding 200 …

Solar‐induced fluorescence detects interannual variation in gross primary production of coniferous forests in the Western United States

LM Zuromski, DR Bowling, P Köhler… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying gross primary production (GPP), the largest flux of the terrestrial carbon cycle,
remains difficult at the landscape scale. Evergreen needleleaf (coniferous) forests in the …