Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes

Z Zhang, L Zhang, H Xu, IF Creed, JA Blanco… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests are essential in regulating global carbon and water cycles and are critical in
mitigating climate change. Water-use efficiency, defined by the ratio of plant productivity per …

Remote sensing of ecosystem water use efficiency: a review of direct and indirect estimation methods

W Cai, S Ullah, L Yan, Y Lin - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Water use efficiency (WUE) is a key index for understanding the ecosystem of carbon–water
coupling. The undistinguishable carbon–water coupling mechanism and uncertainties of …

[HTML][HTML] Evapotranspiration, gross primary productivity and water use efficiency over a high-density olive orchard using ground and satellite based data

J Elfarkh, K Johansen, MM El Hajj… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The trade-off between increasing agricultural production and groundwater conservation,
which is often the only irrigation source in arid regions, is a major challenge for water …

Effects of soil water content on forest ecosystem water use efficiency through changes in transpiration/evapotranspiration ratio

C Nie, Y Huang, S Zhang, Y Yang, S Zhou, C Lin… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE), defined as the ratio of gross primary production
(GPP) over evapotranspiration (ET), is a crucial variable that describes the tradeoff between …

Spatio-temporal variations in water use efficiency and its drivers in China over the last three decades

S Sun, Z Song, X Wu, T Wang, Y Wu, W Du, T Che… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) reflects the intimately coupled relationship between
the carbon and water cycles in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the inter-annual variation …

Divergent impacts of VPD and SWC on ecosystem carbon-water coupling under different dryness conditions

C Zheng, S Wang, J Chen, N **ang, L Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) is an indicator of carbon-water interactions and is
defined as the ratio of gross primary productivity (GPP) to evapotranspiration (ET). However …

Ecosystem water use efficiency in a young plantation in Northern China and its relationship to drought

J Ma, X Jia, T Zha, CPA Bourque, Y Tian, Y Bai… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate models predict large climatic variability and more frequent, prolonged droughts in
northern China. Still, few studies have examined the seasonal and interannual variation in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem water use efficiency across China and the response to natural and human activities

G Li, W Chen, R Li, X Zhang, J Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of increasing global carbon emissions, and the relative shortage of water
resources, research on the relationships between climate change, human activities and the …

Spatio-temporal variability of water use efficiency and its drivers in major forest formations in India

S Nandy, M Saranya, R Srinet - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Forests play a significant role in mitigating the effects of climate change and regulating the
biogeochemical cycles. Water use efficiency (WUE) is an important indicator that links the …

The potential of remote sensing-based models on global water-use efficiency estimation: An evaluation and intercomparison of an ecosystem model (BESS) and …

S Yang, J Zhang, S Zhang, J Wang, Y Bai, F Yao… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water-use efficiency (WUE) is a critical indicator to investigate the interaction
between the terrestrial ecosystem carbon and water cycles. WUE, estimated from gross …