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20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia
WIREs Water, Volume 6, Issue 2, March/April 2019., 2019 We discuss the impact of a changing regional hydroscape (pictured) on the proxy archives and people of southwest Asia over the last 20,000 years. The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 ...
Matthew D. Jones +23 more
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The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract Topography affects the distribution and movement of water on Earth, yet new insights about topographic controls continue to surprise us and exciting puzzles remain. Here we combine literature review and data synthesis to explore the influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle, from the atmosphere down to the groundwater ...
Sebastian Gnann +5 more
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Water loss due to increasing planted vegetation over the Badain Jaran Desert, China [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 by the authors. Water resources play a vital role in ecosystem stability, human survival, and social development in drylands. Human activities, such as afforestation and irrigation, have had a large impact on the water cycle and vegetation in ...
Huete, A +4 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Aim Macroscale biodiversity inferences are critical for spatial conservation planning, yet they are affected by the limitations of global datasets and the paucity of genetic data. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive sampling campaign and explored how biodiversity shortfalls impact spatial diversity metrics across a mid‐altitude desert ...
André Vicente Liz +10 more
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Spatial Heterogeneity of Forest-Steppes [PDF]
, 2022 Forest-steppes occupy a wide zone between Eurasian closed canopy forests and open steppes and feature a mosaic of woody and herbaceous vegetation. Due to the occurrence of structurally, compositionally, and environmentally strongly different habitats in ...
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Functional Ecology, Volume 38, Issue 10, Page 2300-2315, October 2024.Abstract Soil phosphorus (P) availability is a crucial factor determining primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystem. Plant functional traits and microbes under P‐deficient conditions can respond positively to increase soil P bioavailability. Whether and/or how the fine‐root traits (FRTs) of deep‐rooted desert species affect the rhizosphere and bulk
Yanju Gao +5 more
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Tree water uptake patterns across the globe
New Phytologist, Volume 242, Issue 5, Page 1891-1910, June 2024.Summary Plant water uptake from the soil is a crucial element of the global hydrological cycle and essential for vegetation drought resilience. Yet, knowledge of how the distribution of water uptake depth (WUD) varies across species, climates, and seasons is scarce relative to our knowledge of aboveground plant functions.
Christoph Bachofen +8 more
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Response of grasslands conversion to croplands on soil organic carbon in Bashang area of Northern China [PDF]
, 2012 This study investigated the effects of two types of grasslands conversion to croplands on soil organic carbon (SOC) in Bashang area where it is a typical agro-pastoral ecotone of Northern China using a pare-site method.
Liu, H, Lv, J, Wang, J, Wang, K
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The determining factors of hydrogen isotope offsets between plants and their source waters
New Phytologist, Volume 241, Issue 5, Page 2009-2024, March 2024.Summary A fundamental assumption when using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes to understand ecohydrological processes is that no isotope fractionation occurs during plant water uptake/transport/redistribution. A growing body of evidence has indicated that hydrogen isotope fractionation occurs in certain environments or for certain plant species ...
Liangju Zhao +6 more
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DiversityHaloxylon ammodendron plantations constitute a dominant vegetation component of the desert–oasis ecotone in the arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China, playing a critical role in maintaining oasis stability and ecological security.
Ziting Wang +8 more
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