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 …

A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Responses of root system architecture to water stress at multiple levels: A meta-analysis of trials under controlled conditions

X Kou, W Han, J Kang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Plants are exposed to increasingly severe drought events and roots play vital roles in
maintaining plant survival, growth, and reproduction. A large body of literature has …

[PDF][PDF] Woody plant encroachment: causes and consequences

SR Archer, EM Andersen, KI Predick… - Rangeland systems …, 2017‏ - library.oapen.org
Woody vegetation in grasslands and savannas has increased worldwide over the past 100–
200 years. This phenomenon of “woody plant encroachment”(WPE) has been documented …

California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought

ML Goulden, RC Bales - Nature Geoscience, 2019‏ - nature.com
Widespread episodes of recent forest die-off have been tied to the occurrence of
anomalously warm droughts, although the underlying mechanisms remain inadequately …

Moisture-driven divergence in mineral-associated soil carbon persistence

KA Heckman, AR Possinger, BD Badgley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Mineral stabilization of soil organic matter is an important regulator of the global carbon (C)
cycle. However, the vulnerability of mineral-stabilized organic matter (OM) to climate change …

Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

JM Grünzweig, HJ De Boeck, A Rey… - Nature ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change have been explored in many regions
worldwide. While continued drying and warming may alter process rates and deteriorate the …

The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

M Sprenger, C Stumpp, M Weiler… - Reviews of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The time that water takes to travel through the terrestrial hydrological cycle and the critical
zone is of great interest in Earth system sciences with broad implications for water quality …

[HTML][HTML] Root reinforcement in slope stability models: a review

EB Masi, S Segoni, V Tofani - Geosciences, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The influence of vegetation on mechanical and hydrological soil behavior represents a
significant factor to be considered in shallow landslides modelling. Among the multiple …

Investigating the trade-offs between the supply and demand for ecosystem services for regional spatial management

Y Yuan, Z Bai, J Zhang, Y Huang - Journal of environmental management, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Understanding the supply and demand characteristics of ecosystem services (ESs) and their
trade-offs is the basis for effective ecosystem management and the improvement of human …