Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

(2017) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   Nature Communications

Same rainfall amount different vegetation—How environmental conditions and their interactions influence savanna dynamics

(2016) Britta Tietjen   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Increasing western US forest wildfire activity: sensitivity to changes in the timing of spring

(2016) Anthony LeRoy Westerling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

(2015) Jennifer R. Gremer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?

(2015) Jörg Steinkamp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Shifts in plant functional types have time-dependent and regionally variable impacts on dryland ecosystem water balance

(2015) John B. Bradford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A century of woody plant encroachment in the dry Kimberley savanna of South Africa

(2014) David Ward et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE

Ecohydrology of Adjacent Sagebrush and Lodgepole Pine Ecosystems: The Consequences of Climate Change and Disturbance

(2014) John B. Bradford et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Detection of spatially aggregated changes in temperature and precipitation extremes

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

Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime

(2014) Jan C. Ruppert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The combined effects of a long-term experimental drought and an extreme drought on the use of plant-water sources in a Mediterranean forest

(2014) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of altered precipitation regimes on soil communities and biogeochemistry in arid and semi-arid ecosystems

(2014) Uffe N. Nielsen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of 21st-Century Climate Change on Hydrologic Extremes in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America

(2014) Ingrid M. Tohver et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

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

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Plant growth enhancement by elevated CO2 eliminated by joint water and nitrogen limitation

(2014) Peter B. Reich et al.   Nature Geoscience

Shrub encroachment with increasing anthropogenic disturbance in the semiarid Inner Mongolian grasslands of China

(2013) Hai-Ying Peng et al.   CATENA

Climate model genealogy: Generation CMIP5 and how we got there

(2013) Reto Knutti et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Will climate change promote future invasions?

(2013) Celine Bellard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Causes of warm-edge range limits: systematic review, proximate factors and implications for climate change

(2013) Abigail E. Cahill et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

(2013) Christel Prudhomme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

(2013) Cynthia Rosenzweig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental variability promotes plant invasion

(2013) Madalin Parepa et al.   Nature Communications

Consequences of declining snow accumulation for water balance of mid-latitude dry regions

(2012) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil water balance performs better than climatic water variables in tree species distribution modelling

(2012) Christian Piedallu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate models at their limit?

(2012) Mark Maslin et al.   NATURE

Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique

(2012) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience

(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Climate Change

Soil-mediated effects of subambient to increased carbon dioxide on grassland productivity

(2012) Philip A. Fay et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Effects of ecohydrological variables on current and future ranges, local suitability patterns, and model accuracy in big sagebrush

(2011) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Ecohydrological niche of sagebrush ecosystems

(2011) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   Ecohydrology

Hierarchical analysis of vegetation dynamics over 71 years: soil–rainfall interactions in a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

(2011) Dawn M. Browning et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera

(2011) Gregory T. Pederson et al.   SCIENCE

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

(2010) Suranjana Saha et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century

(2010) O. Pechony et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Seasonally Pulsed Heterogeneity in Microclimate: Phenology and Cover Effects along Deciduous Grassland–Forest Continuum

(2010) Juan Camilo Villegas et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Long-term climate change impacts on agricultural productivity in eastern China

(2009) Daniel R. Chavas et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Ecohydrological controls of soil evaporation in deciduous drylands: How the hierarchical effects of litter, patch and vegetation mosaic cover interact with phenology and season

(2009) Juan Camilo Villegas et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Spatial and temporal variability of plant-available water in calcium carbonate-cemented soils and consequences for arid ecosystem resilience

(2009) Michael Cohrs Duniway et al.   OECOLOGIA

An Invasive Plant Paradox

(2009) M. E. Rout et al.   SCIENCE

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE