Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

Diel ecosystem conductance response to vapor pressure deficit is suboptimal and independent of soil moisture

(2018) Changjie Lin et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Woody plants optimise stomatal behaviour relative to hydraulic risk

(2018) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil Moisture Stress as a Major Driver of Carbon Cycle Uncertainty

(2018) A. T. Trugman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

(2018) Francesco Giardina et al.   Nature Geoscience

Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes

(2018) Benjamin D. Stocker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparing optimal and empirical stomatal conductance models for application in Earth system models

(2018) Peter J Franks et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

(2018) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NATURE

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

(2017) Thomas L. Powell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

(2017) Julia K. Green et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plant water potential improves prediction of empirical stomatal models

(2017) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PLoS One

Land surface models systematically overestimate the intensity, duration and magnitude of seasonal-scale evaporative droughts

(2016) A M Ukkola et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do dynamic global vegetation models capture the seasonality of carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin? A data-model intercomparison

(2016) Natalia Restrepo-Coupe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global variations in ecosystem-scale isohydricity

(2016) Alexandra G. Konings et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

(2016) Alistair Rogers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought limitations to leaf-level gas exchange: results from a model linking stomatal optimization and cohesion-tension theory

(2016) Kimberly A. Novick et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Predicting stomatal responses to the environment from the optimization of photosynthetic gain and hydraulic cost

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Increased water deficit decreases Douglas fir growth throughout western US forests

(2016) Christina M. Restaino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

(2016) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optimal stomatal behavior with competition for water and risk of hydraulic impairment

(2016) Adam Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparison of SMOS and AMSR-E vegetation optical depth to four MODIS-based vegetation indices

(2016) J.P. Grant et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Vegetation optical depth and scattering albedo retrieval using time series of dual-polarized L-band radiometer observations

(2016) Alexandra G. Konings et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

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

An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

(2015) Pierre Gentine et al.   Ecohydrology

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

What plant hydraulics can tell us about responses to climate-change droughts

(2015) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought

(2015) D. Scott Mackay et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

(2015) Nathan G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

(2015) N. G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Incorporating root hydraulic redistribution in CLM4.5: Effects on predicted site and global evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and water storage

(2015) Jinyun Tang et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Patterns in hydraulic architecture from roots to branches in six tropical tree species from cacao agroforestry and their relation to wood density and stem growth

(2015) Martyna M. Kotowska et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Modeling plant transpiration under limited soil water: Comparison of different plant and soil hydraulic parameterizations and preliminary implications for their use in land surface models

(2014) Anne Verhoef et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The variability of stomatal sensitivity to leaf water potential across tree species indicates a continuum between isohydric and anisohydric behaviours

(2014) Tamir Klein   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increasing leaf hydraulic conductance with transpiration rate minimizes the water potential drawdown from stem to leaf

(2014) Kevin A. Simonin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models - evaluation and recommendations

(2014) Jeffrey M. Warren et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

(2014) William R. L. Anderegg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Optimization of stomatal conductance for maximum carbon gain under dynamic soil moisture

(2013) Stefano Manzoni et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

How should we model plant responses to drought? An analysis of stomatal and non-stomatal responses to water stress

(2013) Shuangxi Zhou et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

(2013) Pierre Friedlingstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety-efficiency trade-off

(2013) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecosystem respiration and net primary productivity after 8–10 years of experimental through-fall reduction in an eastern Amazon forest

(2013) Antonio C.L. da Costa et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

(2012) Jaume Flexas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

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

(2012) A. Park Williams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Towards an improved and more flexible representation of water stress in coupled photosynthesis–stomatal conductance models

(2011) Gregorio Egea et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data

(2011) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The Diurnal Behavior of Evaporative Fraction in the Soil–Vegetation–Atmospheric Boundary Layer Continuum

(2011) Pierre Gentine et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evaluating climatic and soil water controls on evapotranspiration at two Amazonian rainforest sites

(2008) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE