Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

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No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming

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Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity

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Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?

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Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

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Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

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Advancing the Understanding of Adaptive Capacity of Social‐Ecological Systems to Absorb Climate Extremes

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On the essentials of drought in a changing climate

(2020) Toby R. Ault   SCIENCE

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

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Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

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Photodegradation influences litter decomposition rate in a humid tropical ecosystem, Brazil

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Rewetting of soil: Revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions

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The contribution of photodegradation to litter decomposition in a temperate forest gap and understorey

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Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

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Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought

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Foliar water uptake in Amazonian trees: evidence and consequences

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Connectivity Dynamics in Dryland Litter Cycles: Moving Decomposition beyond Spatial Stasis

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Solar UV-A radiation and blue light enhance tree leaf litter decomposition in a temperate forest

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A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

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Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments – A response to Korell et al.

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Advancing global change biology through experimental manipulations: Where have we been and where might we go?

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Vegetation pattern formation: The mechanisms behind the forms

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Non-rainfall Moisture: A Key Driver of Microbial Respiration from Standing Litter in Arid, Semiarid, and Mesic Grasslands

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Solar Photochemical Emission of CO2 From Leaf Litter: Sources and Significance to C Loss

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Changes in soil C:N:P stoichiometry along an aridity gradient in drylands of northern China

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The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

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Photodegradation accelerates coarse woody debris decomposition in subtropical Chinese forests

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Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

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The value of wet leaves

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Increasing global vegetation browning hidden in overall vegetation greening: Insights from time-varying trends

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Assessing nature's contributions to people

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The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity

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From Patterns to Function in Living Systems: Dryland Ecosystems as a Case Study

(2018) Ehud Meron   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Life in Dry Soils: Effects of Drought on Soil Microbial Communities and Processes

(2018) Joshua P. Schimel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

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Intensity and Persistence of Soil Water Repellency in Pine Forest Soil in a Temperate Continental Climate under Drought Conditions

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Photodegradation accelerates ecosystem N cycling in a simulated California grassland

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Understanding the mechanisms of soil water repellency from nanoscale to ecosystem scale: a review

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Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms

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Biological soil crusts: diminutive communities of potential global importance

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Soil carbon dioxide emissions from the Mojave desert: Isotopic evidence for a carbonate source

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Divergent surface and total soil moisture projections under global warming

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Widespread production of nonmicrobial greenhouse gases in soils

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Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

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Accounting for photodegradation dramatically improves prediction of carbon losses in dryland systems

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Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change

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Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period

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Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

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Biocrusts positively affect the soil water balance in semiarid ecosystems

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Soil Water Repellency: A Potential Driver of Vegetation Dynamics in Coastal Dunes

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Biotic degradation at night, abiotic degradation at day: positive feedbacks on litter decomposition in drylands

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Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

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Photodegradation alleviates the lignin bottleneck for carbon turnover in terrestrial ecosystems

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Plant responses to increasing CO2reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity

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Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

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Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens

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Potential evapotranspiration and continental drying

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Increasing aridity, temperature and soil pH induce soil C-N-P imbalance in grasslands

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Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

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Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

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Decoupling of nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial plants associated with global changes

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Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

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Water from air: an overlooked source of moisture in arid and semiarid regions

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Non-Rainfall Moisture Activates Fungal Decomposition of Surface Litter in the Namib Sand Sea

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A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems

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Ecosystem properties self-organize in response to a directional fog–vegetation interaction

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Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

(2014) Peter Greve et al.   Nature Geoscience

Solar ultraviolet radiation in a changing climate

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Human Land-Use Practices Lead to Global Long-Term Increases in Photosynthetic Capacity

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Hydraulic redistribution by plants and nutrient stoichiometry: Shifts under global change

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Molecular characterization of lipid fractions from extremely water-repellent pine and eucalyptus forest soils

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Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

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Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils

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Shedding light on plant litter decomposition: advances, implications and new directions in understanding the role of photodegradation

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The incidence and implications of clouds for cloud forest plant water relations

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Evidence for spatial variability in hydraulic redistribution within an oak–pine forest from resistivity imaging

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Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

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The magnitude of hydraulic redistribution by plant roots: a review and synthesis of empirical and modeling studies

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Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level

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A decade of weather extremes

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Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift

(2011) Pieter S. A. Beck et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil Coverage Reduces Photodegradation and Promotes the Development of Soil-Microbial Films on Dryland Leaf Litter

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Responses and feedbacks of coupled biogeochemical cycles to climate change: examples from terrestrial ecosystems

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Soil water repellency and pH soil change under tropical pine plantations compared with native tropical forest

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Evidence of hydraulic lift in a young beech and oak mixed forest using 18O soil water labelling

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Has water limited our imagination for aridland biogeochemistry?

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The Role of Photodegradation in Surface Litter Decomposition Across a Grassland Ecosystem Precipitation Gradient

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Atmospheric water vapor as driver of litter decomposition in Mediterranean shrubland and grassland during rainless seasons

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Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

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The response of ecosystem CO2 exchange to small precipitation pulses over a temperate steppe

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Contribution of Semi-Arid Forests to the Climate System

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Factors controlling soil CO2 effluxes and the effects of rewetting on effluxes in adjacent deciduous, coniferous, and mixed forests in Korea

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Three scales of temporal resolution from automated soil respiration measurements

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Community Assembly of Biological Soil Crusts of Different Successional Stages in a Temperate Sand Ecosystem, as Assessed by Direct Determination and Enrichment Techniques

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Abiotic Gas Formation Drives Nitrogen Loss from a Desert Ecosystem

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Regular Surface Patterning of Peatlands: Confronting Theory with Field Data

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Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates

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Reappraisal of drying and wetting effects on C and N mineralization and fluxes in soils

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