Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought

LM Müller, M Bahn - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts. These
events, which can cause significant perturbations of terrestrial ecosystems and potentially …

Plant-groundwater interactions in drylands: A review of current research and future perspectives

T Wang, Z Wu, P Wang, T Wu, Y Zhang, J Yin… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global dryland areas are expanding due to climate change, and this expansion is
accompanied by an increased frequency and intensity of drought occurrences. The degree …

Vegetation resistance to increasing aridity when crossing thresholds depends on local environmental conditions in global drylands

C Abel, FT Maestre, M Berdugo, T Tagesson… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The crossing of aridity thresholds triggers abrupt changes in multiple functional and
structural ecosystem attributes across global drylands. While we understand the …

Six decades of warming and drought in the world's top wheat-producing countries offset the benefits of rising CO2 to yield

D Helman, DJ Bonfil - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Future atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentration ([CO2]) rise is expected to increase the
grain yield of C3 crops like wheat even higher under drought. This expectation is based on …

[HTML][HTML] The grassland carbon cycle: Mechanisms, responses to global changes, and potential contribution to carbon neutrality

L Liu, EJ Sayer, M Deng, P Li, W Liu, X Wang… - Fundamental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Grassland is one of the largest terrestrial biomes, providing critical ecosystem services such
as food production, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. Global climate …

Phenotypic plasticity: A missing element in the theory of vegetation pattern formation

JJR Bennett, BK Bera, M Ferré… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Regular spatial patterns of vegetation are a common sight in drylands. Their formation is a
population-level response to water stress that increases water availability for the few via …

Ecosystems in China have become more sensitive to changes in water demand since 2001

Y Hu, F Wei, B Fu, W Zhang, C Sun - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in heat and moisture significantly co-alter ecosystem functioning.
However, knowledge on dynamics of ecosystem responses to climate change is limited …

Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

NJ Oram, J Ingrisch, RD Bardgett, F Brennan… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands face more frequent and extreme droughts; yet, their responses to increasing
drought intensity are poorly understood. Increasing drought intensity likely triggers abrupt …

Impacts on and damage to European forests from the 2018–2022 heat and drought events

F Knutzen, P Averbeck, C Barrasso… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2025 - nhess.copernicus.org
Drought and heat events in Europe are becoming increasingly frequent due to human-
induced climate change, impacting both human well-being and ecosystem functioning. The …

[HTML][HTML] Environment-induced growth changes in forests of Finland revisited-a follow-up using an extended data set from the 1960s to the 2020s

HM Henttonen, P Nöjd, H Mäkinen - Forest Ecology and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
After a rising trend for 1971–2013, during which the annual volume growth of the forests of
Finland increased by more than 70%, a recent reduction has been observed. We analyzed …