A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends

SI Higgins, T Conradi, E Muhoko - Nature Geoscience, 2023‏ - nature.com
Climate change is expected to impact the functioning of the entire Earth system. However,
detecting changes in ecosystem dynamics and attributing such change to anthropogenic …

Transition from positive to negative indirect CO2 effects on the vegetation carbon uptake

Z Chen, W Wang, G Forzieri, A Cescatti - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Although elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration (eCO2) has substantial indirect effects on
vegetation carbon uptake via associated climate change, their dynamics remain unclear …

Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

JMC Denissen, AJ Teuling, AJ Pitman, S Koirala… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems are essential for food and water security and CO2 uptake. Ecosystem
function is dependent on the availability of soil moisture, yet it is unclear how climate change …

A constraint on historic growth in global photosynthesis due to rising CO2

TF Keenan, X Luo, BD Stocker, MG De Kauwe… - Nature Climate …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that rising CO2 increases global photosynthesis, a process known
as CO2 fertilization, and that this is responsible for much of the current terrestrial carbon …

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 …

A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere

G Camps-Valls, M Campos-Taberner… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Empirical vegetation indices derived from spectral reflectance data are widely used in
remote sensing of the biosphere, as they represent robust proxies for canopy structure, leaf …

Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities

S Ren, C Terrer, J Li, Y Cao, S Yang, D Liu - Nature Climate Change, 2024‏ - nature.com
Grazing has been associated with contrasting effects on soil carbon stocks at local scales,
but accurate global assessments of its net impact are lacking. Here we conducted a meta …

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

D Gampe, J Zscheischler, M Reichstein… - Nature Climate …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon
uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence for increasing …