Reviews and syntheses: Isotopic approaches to quantify root water uptake: a review and comparison of methods

Y Rothfuss, M Javaux - Biogeosciences, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Plant root water uptake (RWU) has been documented for the past five decades from water
stable isotopic analysis. By comparing the (hydrogen or oxygen) stable isotopic …

Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level

I Prieto, C Armas, FI Pugnaire - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic redistribution (HR) is the passive movement of water between different soil parts
via plant root systems, driven by water potential gradients in the soil–plant interface. New …

A multi-scale perspective of water pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western USA

ME Loik, DD Breshears, WK Lauenroth, J Belnap - Oecologia, 2004 - Springer
In dryland ecosystems, the timing and magnitude of precipitation pulses drive many key
ecological processes, notably soil water availability for plants and soil microbiota. Plant …

Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

JL Heisler-White, AK Knapp, EF Kelly - Oecologia, 2008 - Springer
Water availability is the primary constraint to aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in
many terrestrial biomes, and it is an ecosystem driver that will be strongly altered by future …

The magnitude of hydraulic redistribution by plant roots: a review and synthesis of empirical and modeling studies

RB Neumann, ZG Cardon - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic redistribution (HR)–the movement of water from moist to dry soil through plant
roots–occurs worldwide within a range of different ecosystems and plant species. The …

Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

RS Oliveira, TE Dawson, SSO Burgess, DC Nepstad - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
About half of the Amazon rainforest is subject to seasonal droughts of 3 months or more.
Despite this drought, several studies have shown that these forests, under a strongly …

Prospects for utilising plant‐adaptive mechanisms to improve wheat and other crops in drought‐and salinity‐prone environments

MP Reynolds, A Mujeeb‐Kazi… - Annals of applied …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Breeding for adaptation to abiotic stress is extremely challenging due to the complexity of
the target environments as well as that of the stress‐adaptive mechanisms adopted by …

Root functioning modifies seasonal climate

JE Lee, RS Oliveira, TE Dawson… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Hydraulic redistribution (HR), the nocturnal vertical transfer of soil water from moister to drier
regions in the soil profile by roots, has now been observed in Amazonian trees. We have …

Progress and challenges in using stable isotopes to trace plant carbon and water relations across scales

C Werner, H Schnyder, M Cuntz, C Keitel… - …, 2012 - bg.copernicus.org
Stable isotope analysis is a powerful tool for assessing plant carbon and water relations and
their impact on biogeochemical processes at different scales. Our process-based …

Ecohydrological control of deep drainage in arid and semiarid regions

MS Seyfried, S Schwinning, MA Walvoord… - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The amount and spatial distribution of deep drainage (downward movement of water across
the bottom of the root zone) and groundwater recharge affect the quantity and quality of …