Drought is a key driver of vegetation dynamics
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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.
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Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2011 and 2024, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 106 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Soil moisture and ecosystem function responses of desert grassland varying in vegetative cover to a saturating precipitation pulse (2011) · Ecohydrology · cited 24× · 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.
generalabstractevidence 4/5Keywords: 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) · Nature Communications · cited 63× · 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.
generalabstractevidence 2/5Keywords: 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) · Ecohydrology · cited 19× · 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.
generalabstractevidence 2/5Keywords: drought plant abstract driver vegetation dynamics water uptake patterns consequent responses poorly understood large spatial
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