Recent decades have been characterized by increasing temperatures worldwide, resulting
in an exponential climb in vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD has been identified as an …

Optimal stomatal control models have shown great potential in predicting stomatal behavior
and improving carbon cycle modeling. Basic stomatal optimality theory posits that stomatal …

The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic
benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆ Ca= future minus historic CO2) compensates for …

Stomatal conductance schemes that optimize with respect to photosynthetic and hydraulic
functions have been proposed to address biases in land‐surface model (LSM) simulations …

Global warming is expected to exacerbate the duration and intensity of droughts in the
western United States, which may lead to increased tree mortality. A prevailing proximal …

Knowledge of how water stress impacts the carbon and water cycles is a key uncertainty in
terrestrial biosphere models. We tested a new profit maximization model, where …

The increasing occurrence of flash droughts with rapid onsets poses a great threat to food
security and ecosystem productivity. While temporal trends in flash droughts have been …

Land surface models (LSMs) typically use empirical functions to represent vegetation
responses to soil drought. These functions largely neglect recent advances in plant …

The water and carbon cycles are tightly linked and play a key role in the material and energy
flows between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, but the interactions of water and …

Plant functional traits provide a link in process‐based vegetation models between plant‐
level physiology and ecosystem‐level responses. Recent advances in physiological …