Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation–productivity relationships: implications for climate change

AK Knapp, P Ciais, MD Smith - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions: Status and challenges for research, engineering and management

J Thorslund, J Jarsjo, F Jaramillo, JW Jawitz… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wetlands are often considered as nature-based solutions that can provide a multitude of
services of great social, economic and environmental value to humankind. Changes in land …

Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis

KS Rocci, JM Lavallee, CE Stewart… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC), as the largest terrestrial carbon pool, plays an important role in
global carbon (C) cycling, which may be significantly impacted by global changes such as …

Sensitivity of decomposition rates of soil organic matter with respect to simultaneous changes in temperature and moisture

CA Sierra, SE Trumbore, EA Davidson… - Journal of advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition to global environmental change is a
topic of prominent relevance for the global carbon cycle. Decomposition depends on …

Twenty years of progress, challenges, and opportunities in measuring and understanding soil respiration

B Bond‐Lamberty, A Ballantyne… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil respiration (Rs), the soil‐to‐atmosphere flux of CO2, is a dominant but uncertain part of
the carbon cycle, even after decades of study. This review focuses on progress in …

Responses of ecosystem carbon cycle to experimental warming: a meta‐analysis

M Lu, X Zhou, Q Yang, H Li, Y Luo, C Fang, J Chen… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming potentially alters the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, likely feeding back to
further climate warming. However, how the ecosystem C cycle responds and feeds back to …

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

CPO Reyer, S Leuzinger, A Rammig… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review observational, experimental, and model results on how plants respond to
extreme climatic conditions induced by changing climatic variability. Distinguishing between …

Precipitation manipulation experiments–challenges and recommendations for the future

C Beier, C Beierkuhnlein, T Wohlgemuth… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic changes, including altered precipitation regimes, will affect key ecosystem
processes, such as plant productivity and biodiversity for many terrestrial ecosystems. Past …

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

AK Knapp, DL Hoover, KR Wilcox… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is intensifying the hydrologic cycle and is expected to increase the
frequency of extreme wet and dry years. Beyond precipitation amount, extreme wet and dry …

Impacts of extreme precipitation and seasonal changes in precipitation on plants

MJB Zeppel, JV Wilks, JD Lewis - Biogeosciences, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
The global hydrological cycle is predicted to become more intense in future climates, with
both larger precipitation events and longer times between events in some regions …