The increased frequency of climate extremes in recent years has profoundly affected
terrestrial ecosystem functions and the welfare of human society. The carbon cycle is a key …

Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong
perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face …

Canada's boreal forests, which occupy approximately 30% of boreal forests worldwide, play
an important role in the global carbon budget. However, there is little quantitative information …

Droughts, which are characterized by multiple dimensions including frequency, duration,
severity, and onset timing, can impact tree stem radial growth profoundly. Different …

Each year, terrestrial ecosystems absorb more than a quarter of the anthropogenic carbon
emissions, termed as land carbon sink. An exceptionally large land carbon sink anomaly …

Abstract Changes in snow cover depth and duration predicted by climate change scenarios
are expected to strongly affect high-altitude ecosystem processes. This study investigates …

Rain-fed pastoral systems are tightly connected to meteorological conditions. It is, therefore,
likely that climate change, including changing atmospheric CO2 concentration, temperature …

Drought-induced tree mortality has recently received considerable attention. Questions have
arisen over the necessary intensity and duration thresholds of droughts that are sufficient to …

Future extreme precipitation (EP, daily rainfall amount over certain thresholds) is projected
to increase with global climate change; however, its effect on groundwater recharge has not …

To determine the role of grazing on CO 2 fluxes in a desert steppe, we used paired eddy-
covariance systems to measure the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and microclimate on …