Regardless of annual rainfall amount changes, daily rainfall events are becoming more
intense but less frequent with anthropogenic warming. Larger rainfall events and longer dry …

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

As one of the most important limiting factors of grassland productivity, drought is predicted to
increase in intensity and frequency. Greenhouse studies suggest that arbuscular …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Growing recognition of the importance of climate extremes as drivers of contemporary and
future ecological dynamics has led to increasing interest in studying these locally and …

Amplification of the hydrological cycle as a consequence of global warming is forecast to
lead to more extreme intra-annual precipitation regimes characterized by larger rainfall …

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering
approximately 40%(52 million km²) of the Earth's land surface. They are dominated by …

The amplified “greenhouse effect” associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse
gases has increased atmospheric temperature by 1° C since industrialization (around 1750) …

In the arid and semiarid regions of North America, discrete precipitation pulses are important
triggers for biological activity. The timing and magnitude of these pulses may differentially …

Intensification of weather extremes is currently emerging as one of the most important facets
of climate change. Research on extreme events (“event‐focused” in contrast to “trend …