Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes

Z Zhang, L Zhang, H Xu, IF Creed, JA Blanco… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests are essential in regulating global carbon and water cycles and are critical in
mitigating climate change. Water-use efficiency, defined by the ratio of plant productivity per …

Confronting the water potential information gap

KA Novick, DL Ficklin, D Baldocchi, KJ Davis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water potential directly controls the function of leaves, roots and microbes, and gradients in
water potential drive water flows throughout the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum …

Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space

W Li, J Pacheco-Labrador, M Migliavacca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The response of vegetation physiology to drought at large spatial scales is poorly
understood due to a lack of direct observations. Here, we study vegetation drought …

Increased photosynthesis during spring drought in energy-limited ecosystems

DL Miller, S Wolf, JB Fisher, BF Zaitchik, J **ao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Drought is often thought to reduce ecosystem photosynthesis. However, theory suggests
there is potential for increased photosynthesis during meteorological drought, especially in …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent changes in vegetation greenness, productivity, and rainfall use efficiency are characteristic of ecological restoration towards high-quality …

Y Yu, T Hua, L Chen, Z Zhang, P Pereira - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Globally, vegetation has been changing dramatically. The vegetation–water dynamic is key
to understanding ecosystem structure and functioning in water-limited ecosystems …

Informing nature‐based climate solutions for the United States with the best‐available science

KA Novick, S Metzger, WRL Anderegg… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nature‐based Climate Solutions (NbCS) are managed alterations to ecosystems
designed to increase carbon sequestration or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While they …

Valorization of slaughterhouse wastes through transesterification for sustainable biodiesel production using potassium hydroxide as a heterogeneous catalyst

R Ashouri, D Jafari, M Esfandyari, G Vatankhah… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this research, biodiesel was synthesized from chicken gizzard using potassium hydroxide
catalyst and the effects of operating parameters including catalyst weight percentage (0.005 …

The impact of ecological restoration on ecosystem services change modulated by drought and rising CO2

B Huang, F Lu, X Wang, X Wu, H Zheng… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration projects (ERPs) are an indispensable component of natural climate
solutions and have proven to be very important for reversing environmental degradation in …

A twenty-year dataset of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth from AMSR-E/2 measurements using the multi-channel collaborative algorithm

L Hu, T Zhao, W Ju, Z Peng, J Shi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD) are essential variables in the
terrestrial ecosystem. The multi-frequency radiometers AMSR-E and AMSR2 provide> 20 …

Seasonal variations in vegetation water content retrieved from microwave remote sensing over Amazon intact forests

H Wang, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, Y Yao, L Fan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …