Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

S Ruehr, TF Keenan, C Williams, Y Zhou, X Lu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change has been partially mitigated by an increasing net land carbon sink in the
terrestrial biosphere; understanding the processes that drive this sink is thus essential for …

How eddy covariance flux measurements have contributed to our understanding of Global Change Biology

DD Baldocchi - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A global network of long‐term carbon and water flux measurements has existed since the
late 1990s. With its representative sampling of the terrestrial biosphere's climate and …

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

G Pastorello, C Trotta, E Canfora, H Chu… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The FLUXNET2015 dataset provides ecosystem-scale data on CO2, water, and energy
exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and …

Calibration‐free complementary relationship estimates terrestrial evapotranspiration globally

N Ma, J Szilagyi, Y Zhang - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While large‐scale terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) information is essential for our
understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles, substantial differences exist in current …

The terrestrial carbon sink

TF Keenan, CA Williams - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Life on Earth comes in many forms, but all life-forms share a common element in carbon. It is
the basic building block of biology, and by trap** radiation it also plays an important role …

Critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress in terrestrial ecosystems

Z Fu, P Ciais, AF Feldman, P Gentine, D Makowski… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Plant water stress occurs at the point when soil moisture (SM) limits transpiration, defining a
critical SM threshold (θcrit). Knowledge of the spatial distribution of θcrit is crucial for future …

Situating ecology as a big-data science: current advances, challenges, and solutions

SS Farley, A Dawson, SJ Goring, JW Williams - BioScience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

Confronting the water potential information gap

KA Novick, DL Ficklin, D Baldocchi, KJ Davis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water potential directly controls the function of leaves, roots and microbes, and gradients in
water potential drive water flows throughout the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum …

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

WK Smith, MP Dannenberg, D Yan, S Herrmann… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …

Informing nature‐based climate solutions for the United States with the best‐available science

KA Novick, S Metzger, WRL Anderegg… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nature‐based Climate Solutions (NbCS) are managed alterations to ecosystems
designed to increase carbon sequestration or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While they …