Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022‏ - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

H Hartmann, A Bastos, AJ Das… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023‏ - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

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 …

Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening

Y Yan, S Piao, WM Hammond, A Chen… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Vegetation greening has been suggested to be a dominant trend over recent decades, but
severe pulses of tree mortality in forests after droughts and heatwaves have also been …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally

L Liu, L Gudmundsson, M Hauser, D Qin, S Li… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Dryness stress can limit vegetation growth and is often characterized by low soil moisture
(SM) and high atmospheric water demand (vapor pressure deficit, VPD). However, the …

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 …