The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems

KA Novick, DL Ficklin, C Grossiord… - Plant, Cell & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An exponential rise in the atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD) is among the most
consequential impacts of climate change in terrestrial ecosystems. Rising VPD has negative …

The terrestrial carbon sink

TF Keenan, CA Williams - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Life on Earth comes in many forms, but all life-forms share a common element in carbon. It is
the basic building block of biology, and by trap** radiation it also plays an important role …

Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

S Zhou, B Yu, Y Zhang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Increases in concurrent climate extremes in different parts of the world threaten the
ecosystem and our society. However, spatial patterns of these extremes and their past and …

Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - IPCC AR6 WGI, final …, 2021 - hal.science
ES 6: 3-5 Replace “It is unequivocal that emissions of the well-mixed greenhouse gases
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) from human activities …

Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric CO2

Y Zhang, P Gentine, X Luo, X Lian, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water availability plays a critical role in sha** terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in low-
and mid-latitude regions. The sensitivity of vegetation growth to precipitation strongly …

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 …

Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Ju, JM Chen, P Ciais, A Cescatti… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide
(CO2)[ie, the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on …

Diagnosing destabilization risk in global land carbon sinks

M Fernández-Martínez, J Peñuelas, F Chevallier… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Global net land carbon uptake or net biome production (NBP) has increased during recent
decades. Whether its temporal variability and autocorrelation have changed during this …

Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives

S Piao, X Wang, K Wang, X Li, A Bastos… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With accumulation of carbon cycle observations and model developments over the past
decades, exploring interannual variation (IAV) of terrestrial carbon cycle offers the …

Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest

AT Nottingham, P Meir, E Velasquez, BL Turner - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Tropical soils contain one-third of the carbon stored in soils globally, so destabilization of
soil organic matter caused by the warming predicted for tropical regions this century could …