Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

Y Yang, ML Roderick, H Guo, DG Miralles… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

Soil moisture decline in China's monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change

Y Wang, W Hu, H Sun, Y Zhao, P Zhang, Z Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Soil moisture (SM) is essential for sustaining services from Earth's critical zone, a thin-living
skin spanning from the canopy to groundwater. In the Anthropocene epoch, intensive …

Southern Hemisphere dominates recent decline in global water availability

Y Zhang, C Li, FHS Chiew, DA Post, X Zhang, N Ma… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Global land water underpins livelihoods, socioeconomic development, and ecosystems. It
remains unclear how water availability has changed in recent decades. Using an ensemble …

Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

N Hasler, CA Williams, VC Denney, PW Ellis… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Restoring tree cover changes albedo, which is the fraction of sunlight reflected from the
Earth's surface. In most locations, these changes in albedo offset or even negate the carbon …

Vegetation resilience does not increase consistently with greening in China's Loess Plateau

Z Wang, B Fu, X Wu, Y Li, Y Feng, S Wang… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Recent concurrent processes of vegetation greening and reduced resilience (the capacity to
recover from disturbances) worldwide have brought many uncertainties into sustainable …

Different roads, same destination: The shared future of plant ecophysiology and ecohydrology

JV Wilkening, X Feng, TE Dawson… - Plant, Cell & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial water fluxes are substantially mediated by vegetation, while the distribution,
growth, health, and mortality of plants are strongly influenced by the availability of water …

Uniformly elevated future heat stress in China driven by spatially heterogeneous water vapor changes

F Wang, M Gao, C Liu, R Zhao, MB McElroy - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
The wet bulb temperature (Tw) has gained considerable attention as a crucial indicator of
heat-related health risks. Here we report south-to-north spatially heterogeneous trends of Tw …

Deforestation-induced runoff changes dominated by forest-climate feedbacks

S Ma, S Zhou, B Yu, J Song - Science Advances, 2024‏ - science.org
Large-scale deforestation alters water availability through its direct effect on runoff
generation and indirect effect through forest-climate feedbacks. However, these direct and …

Revisiting biophysical impacts of greening on precipitation over the Loess Plateau of China using WRF with water vapor tracers

Y Liu, J Ge, W Guo, Y Cao, C Chen… - Geophysical …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Loess Plateau of China has witnessed a remarkable greening trend due to
vegetation restoration in recent decades. However, the precipitation response to greening …

Detecting the interactions between vegetation greenness and drought globally

Z Li, F Sun, H Wang, T Wang, Y Feng - Atmospheric Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Drought changes can profoundly influence vegetation growth while vegetation, in turn, may
impact drought by modulating water and energy exchanges between the land and …