Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?

Acclimation limits for embolism resistance and osmotic adjustment accompany the geographic dry edge of Mediterranean species

(2023) Asaf Alon et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought

(2023) Ying Yao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The detection and attribution of extreme reductions in vegetation growth across the global land surface

(2023) Hui Yang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Traits that distinguish dominant species across aridity gradients differ from those that respond to soil moisture

(2023) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Contrasting responses of early‐ and late‐season plant phenophases to altered precipitation

(2023) Chunyan Lu et al.   OIKOS

Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability

(2023) Taylor Smith et al.   Nature Communications

Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems

(2023) Yang Li et al.   Nature Climate Change

The expansion of rainfed grain production can generate spontaneous hydrological changes that reduce climate sensitivity

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Soil versus atmospheric drought: A test case of plant functional trait responses

(2023) Samantha J. Watson et al.   ECOLOGY

Overcompensation of ecosystem productivity following sustained extreme drought in a semiarid grassland

(2023) Jingyi Ru et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought‐induced relocation of ant colonies and its consequences for the long‐term spatial ecology of a population under stress

(2023) Terry J. Ord   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Responses of bud banks and shoot density to experimental drought along an aridity gradient in temperate grasslands

(2023) Jianqiang Qian et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Soil Respiration Responses to Throughfall Exclusion Are Decoupled From Changes in Soil Moisture for Four Tropical Forests, Suggesting Processes for Ecosystem Models

(2023) Daniela F. Cusack et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

A comprehensive resilience assessment of Mexican tree species and their relationship with drought events over the last century

(2023) A. Correa‐Díaz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth

(2023) Xianfeng Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Timing and magnitude of drought impacts on carbon uptake across a grassland biome

(2023) Andrew J. Felton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Droughting a megadrought: Ecological consequences of a decade of experimental drought atop aridification on the Colorado Plateau

(2023) Rebecca Finger‐Higgens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of soil C pools to combined warming and altered precipitation regimes: A meta‐analysis

(2023) Xinyu Wei et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Compensatory dynamics drive grassland recovery from drought

(2023) Wentao Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes

(2023) Adrián Maturano‐Ruiz et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 bc

(2023) Sturt W. Manning et al.   NATURE

Drought response strategies are coupled with leaf habit in 35 evergreen and deciduous oak (Quercus) species across a climatic gradient in the Americas

(2023) Matthew A. Kaproth et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How woody plants adjust above‐ and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought

(2023) Lucy Rowland et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nutrient effects on drought responses vary across common temperate grassland species

(2023) Carola Kiene et al.   OECOLOGIA

Contrasting dynamics of seed banks and standing vegetation of annuals and perennials along a rainfall gradient

(2023) Niv DeMalach et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Ghosts of dry seasons past: Legacy of severe drought enhances mangrove salinity tolerance through coordinated cellular osmotic and elastic adjustments

(2023) Holly A. A. Beckett et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought

(2023) John W. Benning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A global transition to flash droughts under climate change

(2023) Xing Yuan et al.   SCIENCE

Plant–soil feedback under drought: does history shape the future?

(2023) Franciska de Vries et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Drought is threatening plant growth and soil nutrients of grassland ecosystems: A meta‐analysis

(2023) Cheng Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Tree community composition stabilizes ecosystem functions in response to drought

(2023) Felix Gottschall et al.   Ecosphere

Legacy effects of intensified drought on the soil microbiome in a mesic grassland

(2023) Leena L. Vilonen et al.   Ecosphere

Differential sensitivity of above- and belowground plant biomass to drought and defoliation in temperate grasslands

(2023) Amgaa Batbaatar et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Water availability dominated vegetation productivity of Inner Mongolia grasslands from 1982 to 2015

(2023) Biao Gao et al.   Ecological Indicators

Observed forest trait velocities have not kept pace with hydraulic stress from climate change

(2023) G. R. Quetin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon starvation following a decade of experimental drought consumes old reserves in Pinus edulis

(2023) Drew M. P. Peltier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A drought year favored drier‐adapted origins over local origins in a reciprocal transplant experiment along a rainfall gradient

(2023) Johannes Metz et al.   OIKOS

The need to decipher plant drought stress along the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum

(2023) Andreas H. Schweiger et al.   OIKOS

Nitrogen enrichment differentially regulates the response of ecosystem stability to extreme dry versus wet events

(2023) Fangfang Ma et al.   Science of The Total Environment

Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale

(2023) Ulisse Gomarasca et al.   Nature Communications

Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle

(2022) David L. Hoover et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

(2022) Flavia R. C. Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought

(2022) Lena M. Müller et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought

(2022) Matthew P. Dannenberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exploring complex water stress–gross primary production relationships: Impact of climatic drivers, main effects, and interactive effects

(2022) Huan Wang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands

(2022) Erik Kusch et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant diversity improves resistance of plant biomass and soil microbial communities to drought

(2022) Yan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A Multidataset Assessment of Climatic Drivers and Uncertainties of Recent Trends in Evaporative Demand across the Continental United States

(2022) Christine M. Albano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

What happens after drought ends: synthesizing terms and definitions

(2022) Leena Vilonen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

(2022) György Kröel-Dulay et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

(2022) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought

(2022) Rosa E. Kramp et al.   ECOLOGY

Natural selection favours drought escape and an acquisitive resource‐use strategy in semi‐arid Mediterranean shrubs

(2022) Mario Blanco‐Sánchez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Forage provision is more affected by droughts in arid and semi‐arid than in mesic rangelands

(2022) Viviana F. Bondaruk et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Primary production responses to extreme changes in North American Monsoon precipitation vary by elevation and plant functional composition through time

(2022) Seth M. Munson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional thresholds alter the relationship of plant resistance and recovery to drought

(2022) Johannes Ingrisch et al.   ECOLOGY

Late‐season drought exerts more negative effects on plant diversity and cover than early‐season drought through changing soil moisture in a semi‐arid grassland

(2022) Renhui Miao et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests

(2022) Dan Liu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Why can’t we predict traits from the environment?

(2022) Leander DL Anderegg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reflectance spectroscopy allows rapid, accurate and non‐destructive estimates of functional traits from pressed leaves

(2022) Shan Kothari et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts

(2022) Meng Zhao et al.   Nature Climate Change

Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence

(2022) Chaoyang Wu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Aridity determines the effects of warming on community stability in Inner Mongolian grassland

(2022) Zunchi Liu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Responses of a semiarid grassland to recurrent drought are linked to community functional composition

(2022) Wentao Luo et al.   ECOLOGY

Regional differences in the response of California’s rangeland production to climate and future projection

(2022) Han Liu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Interspecific and intraspecific trait variability differentially affect community‐weighted trait responses to and recovery from long‐term drought

(2022) Wentao Luo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology

(2022) Alexis D. Synodinos et al.   OIKOS

Positive legacies of severe droughts in the Inner Mongolia grassland

(2022) Jiamei Sun et al.   Science Advances

Asymmetric responses of resource use efficiency to previous‐year precipitation in a semi‐arid grassland

(2021) Juanjuan Han et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The Experimental Manipulation of Atmospheric Drought: Teasing Out the Role of Microclimate in Biodiversity Experiments

(2021) B.A. Aguirre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought

(2021) Charles J. W. Carroll et al.   OECOLOGIA

Increasing climatic sensitivity of global grassland vegetation biomass and species diversity correlates with water availability

(2021) Daijun Liu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Kroof experiment: realization and efficacy of a recurrent drought experiment plus recovery in a beech/spruce forest

(2021) Thorsten E. E. Grams et al.   Ecosphere

Why Coordinated Distributed Experiments Should Go Global

(2021) Laura Yahdjian et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Friend or foe? The role of biotic agents in drought-induced plant mortality

(2021) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Responses of plant diversity to precipitation change are strongest at local spatial scales and in drylands

(2021) Lotte Korell et al.   Nature Communications

Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C 3 grasslands

(2021) Wentao Luo et al.   ECOLOGY

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

(2021) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns of post‐drought recovery are strongly influenced by drought duration, frequency, post‐drought wetness, and bioclimatic setting

(2021) Tong Jiao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate

(2021) Jinsong Wang et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Shifting seasonal patterns of water availability: ecosystem responses to an unappreciated dimension of climate change

(2021) Olivia L. Hajek et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resistance and resilience of a semi-arid grassland to multi-year extreme drought

(2021) Chong Xu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessing the impacts of drought on net primary productivity of global land biomes in different climate zones

(2021) Yangyang Liu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland

(2021) Ingrid J. Slette et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Low statistical power and overestimated anthropogenic impacts, exacerbated by publication bias, dominate field studies in global change biology

(2021) Yefeng Yang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multi‐year drought alters plant species composition more than productivity across northern temperate grasslands

(2021) Amgaa Batbaatar et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra‐annual precipitation effects on annual grassland productivity and phenology are moderated by community responses

(2021) E. Ashley Shaw et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global pattern and associated drivers of grassland productivity sensitivity to precipitation change

(2021) Chao Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts

(2020) Siddharth Bharath et al.   ECOLOGY

Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States

(2020) Gregory E. Maurer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The global distribution of grass functional traits within grassy biomes

(2020) Emma C. Jardine et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

(2020) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Identification of suites of traits that explains drought resistance and phenological patterns of plants in a semi-arid grassland community

(2020) T. W. Ocheltree et al.   OECOLOGIA

Greater sensitivity to hotter droughts underlies juniper dieback and mortality in Mediterranean shrublands

(2020) Raúl Sánchez-Salguero et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Review of drought impacts on carbon cycling in grassland ecosystems

(2020) Tianjie Lei et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

(2020) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

On the essentials of drought in a changing climate

(2020) Toby R. Ault   SCIENCE

Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

(2020) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   SCIENCE

Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses

(2020) Yudi M. Lozano et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The response of soil respiration to precipitation change is asymmetric and differs between grasslands and forests

(2020) Yue Du et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Lowest drought sensitivity and decreasing growth synchrony towards the dry distribution margin of European beech

(2020) Lena Muffler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Three eco‐physiological strategies of response to drought maintain the form and function of a tropical montane grassland

(2020) Ilaíne S. Matos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity

(2020) A. Bastos et al.   Science Advances

Soil precipitation legacies influence intraspecific plant–soil feedback

(2020) Kerri M. Crawford et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant traits related to precipitation sensitivity of species and communities in semi‐arid shortgrass prairie

(2020) Kevin R. Wilcox et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought

(2020) Alan K. Knapp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

(2020) Florence Volaire et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Frameworks on Patterns of Grasslands’ Sensitivity to Forecast Extreme Drought

(2020) Taofeek O. Muraina   Sustainability

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

(2020) Matthew C. Roby et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

(2020) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change

(2020) Andrew J. Felton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The soil seed bank can buffer long‐term compositional changes in annual plant communities

(2020) Niv DeMalach et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drought effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in global natural ecosystems

(2020) Lei Deng et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Extending the osmometer method for assessing drought tolerance in herbaceous species

(2019) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

(2019) Michael C. Duniway et al.   Ecosphere

Can we condition native plants to increase drought tolerance and improve restoration success?

(2019) Justin M. Valliere et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The competitive advantage of a constitutive CAM species over a C 4 grass species under drought and CO 2 enrichment

(2019) Kailiang Yu et al.   Ecosphere

Rainfall variability maintains grass‐forb species coexistence

(2019) Lauren M. Hallett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Legacies of more frequent drought in ponderosa pine across the western United States

(2019) Drew M. P. Peltier et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better

(2019) Ingrid J. Slette et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Historical reconstruction unveils the risk of mass mortality and ecosystem collapse during pancontinental megadrought

(2019) Robert C. Godfree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

We need more realistic climate change experiments for understanding ecosystems of the future

(2019) Lotte Korell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland

(2019) Andrew J. Felton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands

(2019) Robert J. Griffin‐Nolan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of extreme drought on primary production, species composition and species diversity of a Mediterranean annual plant community

(2019) Moshe Alon et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

(2019) Jian Song et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Distinct fine‐root responses to precipitation changes in herbaceous and woody plants: a meta‐analysis

(2019) Peng Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Long-term experimental drought combined with natural extremes accelerate vegetation shift in a Mediterranean holm oak forest

(2018) Daijun Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes

(2018) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate-driven diversity change in annual grasslands: Drought plus deluge does not equal normal

(2018) Susan P. Harrison et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods

(2018) Matthew D. Petrie et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A unified framework of plant adaptive strategies to drought: Crossing scales and disciplines

(2018) Florence Volaire   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree hydraulic traits are coordinated and strongly linked to climate-of-origin across a rainfall gradient

(2018) Ximeng Li et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands

(2018) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Observing carbon cycle–climate feedbacks from space

(2018) Piers J. Sellers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought

(2018) Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Global patterns of extreme drought-induced loss in land primary production: Identifying ecological extremes from rain-use efficiency

(2018) Ling Du et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Future climate risk from compound events

(2018) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Nature Climate Change

Experimental droughts with rainout shelters: a methodological review

(2018) David L. Hoover et al.   Ecosphere

The responses of plant leaf CO2/H2O exchange and water use efficiency to drought: a meta-analysis

(2018) Jinmeng Zhang et al.   Sustainability

A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?

(2018) Alan K. Knapp et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2018) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization

(2018) Nicholas P. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems

(2018) H Asbjornsen et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Plant functional groups mediate drought resistance and recovery in a multisite grassland experiment

(2018) Kathleen A. Mackie et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community Response to Extreme Drought (CRED): a framework for drought-induced shifts in plant-plant interactions

(2018) Laura W. Ploughe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area

(2017) Simon Mark Smart et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of extreme drought on specific leaf area of grassland species: A meta-analysis of experimental studies in temperate and sub-Mediterranean systems

(2017) Camilla Wellstein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

(2017) Xiuchen Wu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns of drought recovery

(2017) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   NATURE

Sensitivity of grassland productivity to aridity controlled by stomatal and xylem regulation

(2017) A. G. Konings et al.   Nature Geoscience

Progressing from ‘functional’ to mechanistic traits

(2017) Timothy J. Brodribb   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting drought tolerance from slope aspect preference in restored plant communities

(2017) Sarah Kimball et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Species composition but not diversity explains recovery from the 2011 drought in Texas grasslands

(2017) Xia Xu et al.   Ecosphere

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

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plant drought survival under climate change and strategies to improve perennial grasses. A review

(2016) Mark R. Norton et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Where, when and how plant-soil feedback matters in a changing world

(2016) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Drought-induced vegetation shifts in terrestrial ecosystems: The key role of regeneration dynamics

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Not all droughts are created equal: the impacts of interannual drought pattern and magnitude on grassland carbon cycling

(2016) David L. Hoover et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

(2016) Marc Estiarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

(2016) Alistair W. R. Seddon et al.   NATURE

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Grassland species root response to drought: consequences for soil carbon and nitrogen availability

(2016) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland

(2016) Elsie M. Denton et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Drought Adaptation Mechanisms Should Guide Experimental Design

(2016) Matthew E. Gilbert et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The Impacts of Droughts in Tropical Forests

(2016) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

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

Nighttime warming enhances drought resistance of plant communities in a temperate steppe

(2016) Zhongling Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability

(2016) M. D. Petrie et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Experimental evidence for drought induced alternative stable states of soil moisture

(2016) David. A. Robinson et al.   Scientific Reports

Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying characteristic growth dynamics in a semi-arid grassland ecosystem by predicting short-term NDVI phenology from daily rainfall: a simple four parameter coupled-reservoir model

(2015) John F. Hermance et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

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 global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Climatic controls of aboveground net primary production in semi-arid grasslands along a latitudinal gradient portend low sensitivity to warming

(2015) Whitney Mowll et al.   OECOLOGIA

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   OECOLOGIA

The evolution of drought escape and avoidance in natural herbaceous populations

(2015) Nicholas J. Kooyers   PLANT SCIENCE

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

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

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

(2015) B. I. Cook et al.   Science Advances

Complexity in Climate Change Manipulation Experiments

(2014) J. Kreyling et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Different reactions of central and marginal provenances of Fagus sylvatica to experimental drought

(2014) Daniel Thiel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Differential sensitivities of grassland structural components to changes in precipitation mediate productivity response in a desert ecosystem

(2014) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

(2014) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

(2014) Katja Tielbörger et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanisms of selection: Phenotypic differences among genotypes explain patterns of selection in a dominant species

(2013) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: An overview

(2013) Shuli Niu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Dampening effects of long-term experimental drought on growth and mortality rates of a Holm oak forest

(2013) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Going Back to Basics: Importance of Ecophysiology when Choosing Functional Traits for Studying Communities and Ecosystems

(2013) Bruno H. P. Rosado et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies

(2013) P. B. Adler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001-2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society

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Global warming and changes in drought

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