Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally

Autor: Laibao Liu, Lukas Gudmundsson, Mathias Hauser, Dahe Qin, Shuangcheng Li, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18631-1
Popis: Dryness stresses vegetation and can lead to declines in productivity, increased emission of carbon, and plant mortality, but the drivers of this stress remain unclear. Here the authors show that soil moisture plays a dominant role relative to atmospheric water demand over most global land vegetated areas.
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