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Weather underground: subsurface hydrologic processes mediate tree vulnerability to extreme climatic drought

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Digging deeper: what the critical zone perspective adds to the study of plant ecophysiology

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A critical question for the critical zone: how do plants use rock water?

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On the Inter‐ and Intra‐annual Variability of Ecosystem Evapotranspiration and Water Use Efficiency of an Oak Savanna and Annual Grassland Subjected to Booms and Busts in Rainfall

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Future Precipitation-Driven Meteorological Drought Changes in the CMIP5 Multimodel Ensembles under 1.5°C and 2°C Global Warming

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Carbon Dioxide Production in Bedrock Beneath Soils Substantially Contributes to Forest Carbon Cycling

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The Dual Method Approach (DMA) Resolves Measurement Range Limitations of Heat Pulse Velocity Sap Flow Sensors

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Lithologically controlled subsurface critical zone thickness and water storage capacity determine regional plant community composition

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Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

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Low subsurface water storage capacity relative to annual rainfall decouples Mediterranean plant productivity and water use from rainfall variability

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Widespread drought‐induced tree mortality at dry range edges indicates climate stress exceeds species' compensating mechanisms

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Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics

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Quantification of the seasonal hillslope water storage that does not drive streamflow

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Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?

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The Ancient Blue Oak Woodlands of California: Longevity and Hydroclimatic History

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Not all droughts are created equal: translating meteorological drought into woody plant mortality

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

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Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

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Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

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Small soil storage capacity limits benefit of winter snowpack to upland vegetation

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Refinement of rooting depths using satellite-based evapotranspiration seasonality for ecosystem modeling in California

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