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

Soil moisture mediates alpine life form and community productivity responses to warming

(2016) Daniel E. Winkler et al.   ECOLOGY

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

(2016) Kimberly J. La Pierre et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global-change drivers of ecosystem functioning modulated by natural variability and saturating responses

(2016) Pedro Flombaum et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

A cross-biome synthesis of soil respiration and its determinants under simulated precipitation changes

(2016) Lingli Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon cycle responses of semi-arid ecosystems to positive asymmetry in rainfall

(2016) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

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

More than Drought: Precipitation Variance, Excessive Wetness, Pathogens and the Future of the Western Edge of the Eastern Deciduous Forest

(2016) Jason A. Hubbart et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across Patagonian rangelands

(2015) Juan J. Gaitán et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

Detection of spatially aggregated changes in temperature and precipitation extremes

(2014) E. M. Fischer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Impact of large-scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

(2014) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The key role of dry days in changing regional climate and precipitation regimes

(2014) Suraj D. Polade et al.   Scientific Reports

Anticipating changes in variability of grassland production due to increases in interannual precipitation variability

(2014) Joanna S. Hsu et al.   Ecosphere

A canonical response of precipitation characteristics to global warming from CMIP5 models

(2013) William K.-M. Lau et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Sensitivity of mean annual primary production to precipitation

(2012) Joanna S. Hsu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

(2012) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change

(2012) P. L. Zarnetske et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological forecasting and data assimilation in a data-rich era

(2011) Yiqi Luo et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta-analysis of experimental manipulation

(2010) ZHUOTING WU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Patterns and controls of the variability of radiation use efficiency and primary productivity across terrestrial ecosystems

(2009) Martín F. Garbulsky et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

MODELING PATTERNS OF NONLINEARITY IN ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO TEMPERATURE, CO2, AND PRECIPITATION CHANGES

(2008) Xuhui Zhou et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

Relationship between variability in aboveground net primary production and precipitation in global grasslands

(2008) Yuanhe Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

(2008) YIQI LUO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing precipitation event size increases aboveground net primary productivity in a semi-arid grassland

(2008) Jana L. Heisler-White et al.   OECOLOGIA