Abstract Drought is a key driver of vegetation dynamics, but plant water‐uptake patterns and consequent plant responses to drought are poorly understood at large spatial scales.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Soil moisture and ecosystem function responses of desert grassland varying in vegetative cover to a saturating precipitation pulse (2011) · doi

  ABSTRACT A critical linkage between hydrological and ecological processes is plant cover, yet the ecosystem‐level responses of aridland systems of varying plant cover to extreme precipitation events, predicted to increase in the future, have not been well studied.

  Keywords: plant cover abstract critical linkage hydrological ecological processes ecosystem level responses aridland systems varying extreme
• Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening (2024) · doi

  Global vegetation cover is broadly expected to increase under climate change, but it remains unclear whether vegetation greening will alleviate or aggravate future increases in compound soil drought-heat events.

  Keywords: vegetation global cover broadly expected increase climate change remains unclear whether greening alleviate aggravate future
• Applying the eco‐hydrological equilibrium hypothesis to model root distribution in water‐limited forests (2018) · doi

  Abstract Drought is a key driver of vegetation dynamics, but plant water‐uptake patterns and consequent plant responses to drought are poorly understood at large spatial scales.

  Keywords: drought plant abstract driver vegetation dynamics water uptake patterns consequent responses poorly understood large spatial