High Vapor Pressure Deficit Decreases the Productivity and Water Use Efficiency of Rain‐Induced Pulses in Semiarid Ecosystems

Hot moments in ecosystem fluxes: High GPP anomalies exert outsized influence on the carbon cycle and are differentially driven by moisture availability across biomes

(2020) Steven Kannenberg et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

(2020) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Redefining droughts for the U.S. Corn Belt: The dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit over soil moisture in regulating stomatal behavior of Maize and Soybean

(2020) Hyungsuk Kimm et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events

(2019) Sha Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Severe Long‐Lasting Drought Accelerated Carbon Depletion in the Mongolian Plateau

(2019) Chaoqun Lu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Hydrologic model parameterization using dynamic Landsat-based vegetative estimates within a semiarid grassland

(2019) Mark A. Kautz et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

How do stomata respond to water status?

(2019) Thomas N. Buckley   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Response of ecosystem intrinsic water use efficiency and gross primary productivity to rising vapor pressure deficit

(2019) Quan Zhang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Year‐Round Transpiration Dynamics Linked With Deep Soil Moisture in a Warm Desert Shrubland

(2019) D. J. Szutu et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Water‐use efficiency in a semi‐arid woodland with high rainfall variability

(2019) Tonantzin Tarin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increased high‐latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition

(2019) Zhihua Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon and water fluxes in two adjacent Australian semi-arid ecosystems

(2019) Tonantzin Tarin et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Inter-annual variability of net and gross ecosystem carbon fluxes: A review

(2018) Dennis Baldocchi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Increasingly Important Role of Atmospheric Aridity on Tibetan Alpine Grasslands

(2018) Jinzhi Ding et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Partitioning evapotranspiration using long-term carbon dioxide and water vapor fluxes

(2017) Russell L. Scott et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Towards physiologically meaningful water-use efficiency estimates from eddy covariance data

(2017) Jürgen Knauer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America

(2017) Joel A. Biederman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

(2017) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

Historic and projected changes in vapor pressure deficit suggest a continental-scale drying of the United States atmosphere

(2017) Darren L. Ficklin et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Carbon and water exchange over a temperate semi-arid shrubland during three years of contrasting precipitation and soil moisture patterns

(2016) Xin Jia et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

High atmospheric demand for water can limit forest carbon uptake and transpiration as severely as dry soil

(2016) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

(2016) Joel A. Biederman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

(2016) Kimberly A. Novick et al.   Nature Climate Change

Vegetation productivity responds to sub-annual climate conditions across semiarid biomes

(2016) Mallory L. Barnes et al.   Ecosphere

Biophysical controls on carbon and water vapor fluxes across a grassland climatic gradient in the United States

(2015) Pradeep Wagle et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity*

(2015) Richard Seager et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

The carbon balance pivot point of southwestern U.S. semiarid ecosystems: Insights from the 21st century drought

(2015) Russell L. Scott et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

The evolutionary ecology of C4plants

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Precipitation Regime Shift Enhanced the Rain Pulse Effect on Soil Respiration in a Semi-Arid Steppe

(2014) Liming Yan et al.   PLoS One

Landscape and environmental controls over leaf and ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes under woody plant expansion

(2013) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

(2013) David D. Breshears et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Are rain-induced ecosystem respiration pulses enhanced by legacies of antecedent photodegradation in semi-arid environments?

(2012) Siyan Ma et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of water availability on carbon and water exchange in a young ponderosa pine forest: Above- and belowground responses

(2012) Nadine K. Ruehr et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Commonalities of carbon dioxide exchange in semiarid regions with monsoon and Mediterranean climates

(2012) R.L. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Evolution of C4 plants: a new hypothesis for an interaction of CO2 and water relations mediated by plant hydraulics

(2012) C. P. Osborne et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

(2011) M.K. van der Molen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Organization of complexity in water limited ecohydrology

(2011) G. Darrel Jenerette et al.   Ecohydrology

Woody plant proliferation in North American drylands: A synthesis of impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

(2011) Nichole N. Barger et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The relative controls of temperature, soil moisture, and plant functional group on soil CO2efflux at diel, seasonal, and annual scales

(2011) Greg A. Barron-Gafford et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis

(2010) Jessica M. Cable et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Trees never rest: the multiple facets of hydraulic redistribution

(2010) Nadezhda Nadezhdina et al.   Ecohydrology

Evapotranspiration partitioning in semiarid shrubland ecosystems: a two-site evaluation of soil moisture control on transpiration

(2010) Michelle L. Cavanaugh et al.   Ecohydrology

REVIEW: Time lag between photosynthesis and carbon dioxide efflux from soil: a review of mechanisms and controls

(2010) YAKOV KUZYAKOV et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level

(2009) C. Beer et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Dependence of carbon sequestration on the differential responses of ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration to rain pulses in a semiarid steppe

(2009) SHIPING CHEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Stand-level gas-exchange responses to seasonal drought in very young versus old Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA

(2009) S. Wharton et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Whole ecosystem metabolic pulses following precipitation events

(2008) G. D. Jenerette et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland

(2008) WEIXING LIU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought during canopy development has lasting effect on annual carbon balance in a deciduous temperate forest

(2008) Asko Noormets et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST