Precipitation (PPT) is a primary climatic determinant of plant growth and aboveground net
primary production (ANPP) over much of the globe. Thus, PPT–ANPP relationships are …

Climatic changes, including altered precipitation regimes, will affect key ecosystem
processes, such as plant productivity and biodiversity for many terrestrial ecosystems. Past …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Recent studies showed that anomalous dry conditions and limited moisture supply roughly
between 1998 and 2008, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, led to reduced vegetation …

Theory predicts and evidence shows that plant species that use the C4 photosynthetic
pathway (C4 species) are less responsive to elevated carbon dioxide (e CO2) than species …

Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

Some cereal crops can withstand harsh growing conditions, and, hence, can be considered
an important line of defense against food shortage under climate change. Sorghum …

Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from soil contribute to global warming and are in turn
substantially affected by climate change. However, climate change impacts on N2O …

Climate change ecology has focused on climate effects on trophic interactions through the
lenses of temperature effects on organismal physiology and phenological asynchronies …

Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing number of controlled‐manipulative
experiments to investigate how plants and soils might respond to global change. These …