Extreme droughts have serious impacts on the pools, fluxes and processes of terrestrial
carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles. A deep understanding is necessary to explore the …

Altered precipitation patterns resulting from climate change will have particularly significant
consequences in water‐limited ecosystems, such as arid to semi‐arid ecosystems, where …

Our understanding and quantification of global soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and the
underlying processes remain largely uncertain. Here, we assessed the effects of multiple …

Rewetting dry soils is associated with a burst of microbial activity and mineralization, which
manifests itself as a pulse in soil CO 2 emissions, long-known as the Birch effect. In arid and …

Higher aridity and more extreme rainfall events in drylands are predicted due to climate
change. Yet, it is unclear how changing precipitation regimes may affect nitrogen (N) cycling …

Climate change will alter both the amount and pattern of precipitation and soil water
availability, which will directly affect plant growth and nutrient acquisition, and potentially …

Ecological processes in arid lands are often described by the pulse-reserve paradigm, in
which rain events drive biological activity until moisture is depleted, leaving a reserve. This …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

This paper reviews the interactions between water and nitrogen from physiological,
agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives. Our primary focus is wheat; we …

Given that plant growth is often water‐limited in grasslands, it has been proposed that
projected increases in precipitation could increase plant productivity and carbon …