Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

C Lesk, W Anderson, A Rigden, O Coast… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

S Ruehr, TF Keenan, C Williams, Y Zhou, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has been partially mitigated by an increasing net land carbon sink in the
terrestrial biosphere; understanding the processes that drive this sink is thus essential for …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors

X Zhang, Z Hao, VP Singh, Y Zhang, S Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is a costly natural hazard with far-reaching impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, water
supply, and socio-economy. While propagating through the water cycle, drought evolves into …

The role of land use change in affecting ecosystem services and the ecological security pattern of the Hexi Regions, Northwest China

Y Li, W Liu, Q Feng, M Zhu, L Yang, J Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The land use and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and human
activities is supposed to exert a significant effect on ecosystem functions in arid inland …

Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

X Lian, S Piao, A Chen, C Huntingford, B Fu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Drylands are an essential component of the Earth System and are among the most
vulnerable to climate change. In this Review, we synthesize observational and modelling …

Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

F Chiang, O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Most climate change detection and attribution studies have focused on mean or extreme
temperature or precipitation, neglecting to explore long-term changes in drought …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic simulation of land use change and assessment of carbon storage based on climate change scenarios at the city level: A case study of Bortala, China

Z Wang, X Li, Y Mao, L Li, X Wang, Q Lin - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploring future changes in land use and carbon storage (CS) under different climate
scenarios is important for optimizing regional ecosystem service functions and formulating …

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability

V Humphrey, A Berg, P Ciais, P Gentine, M Jung… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Year-to-year changes in carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems have an essential role in
determining atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. It remains uncertain to what extent …