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 …

Illuminating hydrological processes at the soil‐vegetation‐atmosphere interface with water stable isotopes

M Sprenger, H Leistert, K Gimbel… - Reviews of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Water stable isotopes (18O and 2H) are widely used as ideal tracers to track water through
the soil and to separate evaporation from transpiration. Due to the technical developments in …

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 …

Transpiration in the global water cycle

WH Schlesinger, S Jasechko - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
A compilation of 81 studies that have partitioned evapotranspiration (ET) into its components—
transpiration (T) and evaporation (E)—at the ecosystem scale indicates that T accounts for …

A review of approaches for evapotranspiration partitioning

D Kool, N Agam, N Lazarovitch, JL Heitman… - Agricultural and forest …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Partitioning of evapotranspiration (ET) into evaporation from the soil (E) and transpiration
through the stomata of plants (T) is challenging but important in order to assess biomass …

A review of global terrestrial evapotranspiration: Observation, modeling, climatology, and climatic variability

K Wang, RE Dickinson - Reviews of Geophysics, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys the basic theories, observational methods, satellite algorithms, and land
surface models for terrestrial evapotranspiration, E (or λE, ie, latent heat flux), including a …

Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

P D'Odorico, A Bhattachan, KF Davis, S Ravi… - Advances in water …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Desertification is a change in soil properties, vegetation or climate, which results in a
persistent loss of ecosystem services that are fundamental to sustaining life. Desertification …

Global synthesis of vegetation control on evapotranspiration partitioning

L Wang, SP Good, KK Caylor - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the global hydrological cycle.
However, to what extent transpiration ratios (T/ET) are controlled by vegetation and the …

Partitioning evapotranspiration based on the concept of underlying water use efficiency

S Zhou, B Yu, Y Zhang, Y Huang… - Water Resources …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration (ET) is dominated by transpiration (T) in the terrestrial water cycle.
However, continuous measurement of transpiration is still difficult, and the effect of …

Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

L Wang, P d'Odorico, JP Evans… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2012‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Drylands cover about 40% of the terrestrial land surface and account for approximately 40%
of global net primary productivity. Water is fundamental to the biophysical processes that …