Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

D Thom, R Seidl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

Inter-annual variability of net and gross ecosystem carbon fluxes: A review

D Baldocchi, H Chu, M Reichstein - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018 - Elsevier
As the lifetime of regional flux networks approach twenty years, there is a growing number of
papers that have published long term records (5 years or more) of net carbon fluxes …

Natural climate solutions for the United States

JE Fargione, S Bassett, T Boucher, SD Bridgham… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Limiting climate warming to< 2° C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land
stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management

AD del Campo, K Otsuki, Y Serengil, JA Blanco… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest thinning can significantly affect hydrological processes. However, these effects
largely vary with forest types, climate, thinning intensity, and hydrological variables of …

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America

JA Biederman, RL Scott, TW Bell… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Global‐scale studies suggest that dryland ecosystems dominate an increasing trend in the
magnitude and interannual variability of the land CO 2 sink. However, such analyses are …

Forest biogeochemistry in response to drought

WH Schlesinger, MC Dietze, RB Jackson… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Trees alter their use and allocation of nutrients in response to drought, and changes in soil
nutrient cycling and trace gas flux (N2O and CH 4) are observed when experimental drought …

Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

JA Biederman, RL Scott, ML Goulden… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Global modeling efforts indicate semiarid regions dominate the increasing trend and
interannual variation of net CO 2 exchange with the atmosphere, mainly driven by water …

[HTML][HTML] The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration

SM Vicente-Serrano, DG Miralles, N McDowell… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere rises, there is a need for improved physical
understanding of its impact on global plant transpiration. This knowledge gap poses a major …

Climate change, fire management, and ecological services in the southwestern US

MD Hurteau, JB Bradford, PZ Fulé, AH Taylor… - Forest Ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The diverse forest types of the southwestern US are inseparable from fire. Across climate
zones in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, fire suppression has left many forest …