Human and natural resource exposure to extreme drought at 1.0 °C–4.0 °C warming levels
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Extreme drought occurs on every continent, negatively impacting natural systems and the built environment. Realized and anticipated future warming affects global hydrology, influencing the severity and frequency of both extreme precipitation events and ...
Isabelle Runde +2 more
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Satellite evidence of canopy-height dependence of forest drought resistance in southwestern China
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The frequency and intensity of drought events are increasing with warming climate, which has resulted in worldwide forest mortality. Previous studies have reached a general consensus on the size-dependency of forest resistance to drought, but further ...
Peipei Xu +7 more
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Belowground niche partitioning is maintained under extreme drought
Ecology, 2023 AbstractBelowground niche partitioning presents a key mechanism for maintaining species coexistence and diversity. Its importance is currently reinforced by climate change that alters soil hydrological conditions. However, experimental tests examining the magnitude of its change under climate change are scarce. We combined measurements of oxygen stable
Sophie E. Weides +8 more
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Meteorological Drought Variability over Africa from Multisource Datasets
Atmosphere, 2023 This study analyses the spatiotemporal variability of meteorological drought over Africa and its nine climate subregions from an ensemble of 19 multisource datasets (gauge-based, satellite-based and reanalysis) over the period 1983–2014. The standardized
Kenny T. C. Lim Kam Sian +5 more
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Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010 [PDF]
, 2013 Climate change has led to more frequent extreme winters (aka, dzud) and summer droughts on the Mongolian Plateau during the last decade. Among these events, the 2000–2002 combined summer drought–dzud and 2010 dzud were the most severe on vegetation.
Batkhishig, Ochirbat +8 more
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Timing and Order of Extreme Drought and Wetness Determine Bioclimatic Sensitivity of Tree Growth
Earth's Future, 2022 Tree resistance to extreme droughts and post‐drought recovery are sensitive to the drought timing. However, how the bioclimatic sensitivity of tree growth may vary with the timing and order of extreme droughts and wetness is still poorly understood. Here,
Xiuchen Wu +15 more
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Synergy of extreme drought and shrub invasion reduce ecosystem functioning and resilience in water-limited climates [PDF]
, 2015 Extreme drought events and plant invasions are major drivers of global change that can critically affect ecosystem functioning and alter ecosystem-atmosphere exchange.
A Costa +37 more
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An assessment of the ability of Bartlett–Lewis type of rainfall models to reproduce drought statistics [PDF]
, 2013 Of all natural disasters, the economic and environmental consequences of droughts are among the highest because of their longevity and widespread spatial extent. Because of their extreme behaviour, studying droughts generally requires long time series of
De Baets, Bernard +4 more
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Seasonal variation in soil and plant water potentials in a Bolivian tropical moist and dry forest [PDF]
, 2010 We determined seasonal variation in soil matric potentials (¿soil) along a topographical gradient and with soil depth in a Bolivian tropical dry (1160 mm y-1 rain) and moist forest (1580 mm y-1).
Bongers, F. +3 more
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On the spatio-temporal analysis of hydrological droughts from global hydrological models [PDF]
, 2011 The recent concerns for world-wide extreme events related to climate change have motivated the development of large scale models that simulate the global water cycle.
Corzo Perez, G. +3 more
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