Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity

AF Feldman, X Feng, AJ Felton, AG Konings… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more
intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger rainfall events and longer dry …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: Ongoing and emerging opportunities to improve environmental science using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on …

AM Khan, PC Stoy, JT Douglas, M Anderson… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Environmental science is increasingly reliant on remotely sensed observations of the Earth's
surface and atmosphere. Observations from polar-orbiting satellites have long supported …

Observational evidence of legacy effects of the 2018 drought on a mixed deciduous forest in Germany

F Pohl, U Werban, R Kumar, A Hildebrandt… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Forests play a major role in the global carbon cycle, and droughts have been shown to
explain much of the interannual variability in the terrestrial carbon sink capacity. The …

High vapor pressure deficit decreases the productivity and water use efficiency of rain‐induced pulses in semiarid ecosystems

MC Roby, RL Scott, DJP Moore - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Intermittent rain events drive dynamic pulses of carbon and water exchange in many arid
and semiarid ecosystems. Although soil moisture is known to control these pulses, the effect …

Quantifying the drivers of ecosystem fluxes and water potential across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in an arid woodland

SA Kannenberg, ML Barnes, DR Bowling… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dryland ecosystems occupy a vast swath of the terrestrial land surface and exert a sizeable
impact on the cycling of carbon and water globally. These biomes are characterized by …

Drought-induced decoupling between carbon uptake and tree growth impacts forest carbon turnover time

SA Kannenberg, A Cabon, F Babst… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability of forests to withstand, and recover from, acute drought stress is a critical
uncertainty regarding the impacts of climate change on the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, but it …

Dominant role of soil moisture in mediating carbon and water fluxes in dryland ecosystems

SA Kannenberg, WRL Anderegg, ML Barnes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Drylands exert a strong influence over global interannual variability in carbon and water
cycling due to their substantial heterogeneity over space and time. This variability in …

Large global-scale vegetation sensitivity to daily rainfall variability

AF Feldman, AG Konings, P Gentine, M Cattry, L Wang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Rainfall events are globally becoming less frequent but more intense under a changing
climate, thereby shifting climatic conditions for terrestrial vegetation independent of annual …

Revealing how intra-and inter-annual variability of carbon uptake (GPP) affects wood cell biomass in an eastern white pine forest

PF Puchi, M Khomik, D Frigo, MA Arain… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Forests are major terrestrial carbon (C) sinks and play a crucial role in climate change
mitigation. Despite extensive studies on forest C sequestration, the relationship between …

The diurnal dynamics of gross primary productivity using observations from the Advanced Baseline Imager on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite …

AM Khan, PC Stoy, J Joiner, D Baldocchi… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is the largest flux in the global carbon cycle and satellite‐
based GPP estimates have long been used to study the trends and interannual variability of …