Wheat production and productivity are challenged by recurrent droughts associated with
climate change globally. Drought and heat stress resilient cultivars can alleviate yield loss in …

Tissue succulence in plants involves the storage of water in one or more organs or tissues to
assist in maintaining water potentials on daily or seasonal time scales. This drought …

A monthly global dataset of a multiscalar drought index is presented and compared in terms
of spatial and temporal variability with the existing continental and global drought datasets …

Small reservoirs play an important role in mining, industries, and agriculture, but storage
levels or stage changes are very dynamic. Accurate and up-to-date maps of surface water …

Mediterranean‐type ecosystems contain 20% of all vascular plant diversity on Earth and
have been identified as being particularly threatened by future increases in drought. Of …

Air temperatures have increased globally over the past decades, while rainfall changes
have been more variable, but are taking place. In South Africa, substantial climate-related …

Succulent plants are iconic components of the florae of many terrestrial ecosystems, but
despite having caused fascination and prompted investigation for centuries, they still …

Drought remains one of the world's most devastating phenomena, exhibiting impacts in both
magnitude and frequency. African vegetation remains highly vulnerable to drought impacts …

Climate change has severely impacted southern African vegetation over the last decades.
Recent studies have shown that limiting the global warming level to well below 2° C above …

Responses to environmental variability sheds light on how individuals are able to survive in
a particular habitat and provides an indication of the scope and limits of its niche. To …