Review
Plant Sciences
Po-An Lin, Jessica Kansman, Wen-Po Chuang, Christelle Robert, Matthias Erb, Gary W. Felton
Summary: Water availability has a significant impact on plant-herbivore interactions. This review summarizes recent research on the effects of water availability on plant antiherbivore defense and the physiological processes involved. Water deficit tends to enhance certain defense traits but negatively affects others, and the impact of water availability on species interactions and plant evolution is discussed. However, there is a lack of study on the interactive impact of additional abiotic stressors on water-plant-herbivore interactions.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Andrea Coppi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Federico Selvi
Summary: This study presents the first case of plant mortality on serpentine outcrops in Italy following a heat and drought event that occurred between autumn 2016 and summer 2017. The responses of different plant species to extreme events were largely different and not related to their taxonomic position, growth form, or level of edaphic specialization for serpentine soils. Plant survivorship was significantly influenced by local site conditions such as soil depth and aspect.
Review
Plant Sciences
Ali Raza, Hajar Salehi, Md Atikur Rahman, Zainab Zahid, Maryam Madadkar Haghjou, Shiva Najafi-Kakavand, Sidra Charagh, Hany S. S. Osman, Mohammed Albaqami, Yuhui Zhuang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Weijian Zhuang
Summary: Global climate change has led to abiotic stresses that affect plant growth and productivity. Plants have developed various endogenous strategies, such as plant hormone biosynthesis, to withstand these stresses. Abiotic stresses disrupt normal transportation systems in plants, leading to oxidative stress. Plant defense systems, including enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms, help protect plants from oxidative stress.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nesrein M. Hashem, Paula Martinez-Ros, Antonio Gonzalez-Bulnes, Ali Ali El-Raghi
Summary: Climate change has a significant impact on the livestock farming sector, particularly for smallholders. Smallholder livestock farmers are aware of climate change and its potential effects on animal productivity. Heat waves, humidity, and drought are the major climate change factors affecting animal production. Adopting nutritional strategies, managing housing conditions, and using genetically improved animal breeds are measures to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Christopher A. Halsch, Arthur M. Shapiro, James H. Thorne, Kyle C. Rodman, Adriana Parra, Lee A. Dyer, Zachariah Gompert, Angela M. Smilanich, Matthew L. Forister
Summary: This study examines the effects of climate change on butterfly populations through changes in weather patterns and plant productivity. The results show that snow pack has a positive effect on butterfly occurrence, while low snow pack during droughts leads to reductions in butterfly populations. Additionally, plant primary productivity has consistently negative effects on butterfly occurrence.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Chloe A. Raderschall, Giulia Vico, Ola Lundin, Astrid R. Taylor, Riccardo Bommarco
Summary: The study found that interactions between water stress and insect herbivory significantly impact crop yield. While water stress and aphid herbivory both lead to reduced faba bean yield, their combined effect is less severe than the sum of their individual effects. Additionally, insect pollination independently increases yield, regardless of water availability and insect herbivory.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Charlotte Descamps, Muriel Quinet, Anne-Laure Jacquemart
Summary: Climate change is predicted to increase extreme events like summer droughts in temperate zones, affecting plant water availability and potentially disrupting plant-pollinator interactions. While effects of drought on plant-pollinator relationships are not well studied, it could alter interactions through changes in floral signals and rewards at the plant individual scale. This review synthesizes evidence on the impact of drought on floral signals and rewards and discusses their potential disruption of plant-pollinator relationships.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Agronomy
Cengiz Kaya
Summary: This review explores the proteomic and metabolomic changes in plants triggered by drought stress and their interactions with microbiota. Microbial mediation plays a crucial role in hormone signaling, proteomic, and metabolomic dynamics during drought adaptation. Understanding these complex interactions provides insights into the molecular basis of a plant's ability to endure water scarcity and offers opportunities to enhance drought tolerance through microbiota-mediated mechanisms.
FOOD AND ENERGY SECURITY
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Rabisa Zia, Muhammad Shoib Nawaz, Muhammad Jawad Siddique, Sughra Hakim, Asma Imran
Summary: Drought poses a serious threat to global agriculture, particularly impacting soil biota and plants. Plant drought resistance is a complex quantitative trait controlled by multiple genes, with research indicating various strategies to cope with drought stress, yet the role of the rhizosphere remains largely overlooked. Therefore, an integrated rhizosphere management strategy may be an effective approach for mitigating drought stress.
MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Holly A. A. Beckett, Teresa Neeman, Tomas I. Fuenzalida, Callum Bryant, Sara Chica Latorre, Leuwin I. Ovington, Lawren Sack, Patrick Meir, Marilyn C. Ball
Summary: The incidence and severity of global mangrove mortality due to drought is increasing. Yet, little is understood of the capacity of mangroves to show long-term acclimation of leaf water relations to severe drought. Our study found that the legacy of severe drought enhanced salinity tolerance in the subsequent dry season through coordinated adjustments that reduced leaf water potential and increased cell wall rigidity. These adjustments enable greater leaf function with minimal adjustments, contributing fundamentally to mangrove function under varying salinity regimes.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Raquel Perez Maluf, Ana Lilia Alzate-Marin, Carolina Costa Silva, Ludmila Mickeliunas Pansarin, Fernando Bonifacio-Anacleto, Ivan Schuster, Renato de Mello Prado, Carlos A. Martinez
Summary: This study analyzes the effects of warming and soil water conditions on interactions between the tropical plant species Stylosanthes capitata and its floral visitors. Results show that warming treatments cause earlier flower opening and shorter duration, as well as an increase in sugar concentration in the nectar. Additionally, the relationships between S. capitata and bees and butterflies were affected by the warming conditions, and the combined effects of warming and water deficiency decreased insect visiting frequency around noon.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Review
Microbiology
Manon Camaille, Nicolas Fabre, Christophe Clement, Essaid Ait Barka
Summary: In the coming century, agriculture is likely to face multiple challenges due to climate change and increasing human population. Drought, a major abiotic problem, limits crop growth and productivity and affects a significant portion of land. Plants use complex mechanisms to cope with water-deficit conditions and achieve optimal crop yield.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gregory J. McCabe, David M. Wolock
Summary: The analysis of the water balance in the southwestern United States from 1900 to 2018 revealed that during the turn-of-the-century drought, warm season soil moisture and runoff were at their lowest levels, with increased temperatures identified as a significant factor driving these conditions. However, during the cool seasons and the water year of the drought period, soil moisture and runoff did not show extremely dry conditions despite higher temperatures compared to the rest of the period between 1900 and 2018.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anthony S. Kiem, George Kuczera, Pavel Kozarovski, Lanying Zhang, Garry Willgoose
Summary: This study presents an approach for stochastically generating future hydroclimatic conditions at multiple sites based on the relationship between temperature and rainfall in Australia, applied to catchments supplying Sydney. It found that future warming will lead to significant reductions in streamflow, impacting water security.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Tomas Fuenzalida, Oliver Binks, Callum J. Bryant, Joe Wolfe, Marilyn C. Ball
Summary: This study presents an inexpensive, accessible, and automatable method to noninvasively monitor plant water status. By compressing the leaf lamina and measuring mechanical stress and thickness, changes in leaf turgidity and water content can be monitored.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Andrea Roman-Sanchez, Ana Laguna, Tony Reimann, Juan Vicente Giraldez, Adolfo Pena, Tom Vanwalleghem
EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
(2019)
Article
Soil Science
Karl Vanderlinden, Yakov Pachepsky, Aura Pedrera-Parrilla, Gonzalo Martinez, Antonio Espejo-Perez, Francisco Perea, Juan Giraldez
Summary: Understanding the differences in agro-hydrologic performance of Vertisols under conventional tillage and direct drill requires a thorough knowledge of soil hydraulic properties. Water retention in direct drill was significantly larger for absolute pressure heads ranging from 63 to 3.2 x 10(3) cm, attributed to higher organic matter content. The study also found differences in equivalent pore-size distributions, with direct drill showing a larger abundance of smaller equivalent pore-sizes compared to conventional tillage, impacting soil water content and agro-hydrologic performance.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Maria del Pilar Jimenez-Donaire, Juan Vicente Giraldez, Tom Vanwalleghem
Editorial Material
Soil Science
Miguel Angel Martin, Fernando San Jose Martinez, Juan Vicente Giraldez, Yakov Pachepsky, Hans-Joerg Vogel
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Juan Pablo Garcia Montoya, Juan Vicente Giraldez Cervera, Tom Vanwalleghem
Summary: This study analyzed the impact of land-use changes and ENO events on erosion and sediment transport using the Sedd model, revealing a significant reduction in vegetation cover and the influence of La Niña-related runoff and erosion events.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Karl Vanderlinden, Gonzalo Martinez, Mario Ramos, Ana Laguna, Tom Vanwalleghem, Adolfo Pena, Rosa Carbonell, Rafaela Ordonez, Juan Vicente Giraldez
Summary: The agricultural use of saline table olive processing wastewater helps address environmental, economic, and legal concerns, and has a significant impact on rural southern Spain. Efficient soil monitoring strategies are necessary for growers to assess and maintain suitable soil and plant conditions when irrigating with regenerated wastewaters. Field-scale monitoring with electromagnetic induction sensing revealed the accumulation of highly conductive material in the subsoil after years of irrigation with regenerated wastewater. Laboratory analysis showed varying patterns of electrical conductivity in the soil water, attributed to rainfall and evaporation. Visual inspection and leaf analyses indicated no negative effects on the olive trees. Apparent electrical conductivity measurements allowed for identification of areas with high conductivity in the low elevation zones of the farm. However, no field-wide relationships between electrical conductivity and soil properties could be determined, possibly due to spatial variability in soil clay and water contents.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jose A. Gomez, Gema Guzman, Tom Vanwalleghem, Karl Vanderlinden
Summary: Orchards have a high potential for carbon sequestration, but research on their spatial variability at catchment scale and the difference between tree areas and lanes is lacking. In a Southern Spain catchment with olives on a vertic soil, we analyzed the spatial variability of soil organic carbon stock (SOCstock) at 90 cm depth. Results showed higher SOC concentration in the tree area compared to the lane up to 60 cm depth, but this had negligible impact on SOCstock due to higher soil bulk density in the lane. The overall SOCstock of the orchard was 4.14 kg m-2, similar to other intensive field crops and agroforestry under comparable rainfall conditions.
INTERNATIONAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
A. Penuela, S. Hurtado, V. Garcia-Gamero, J. L. Mas, M. E. Ketterer, T. Vanwalleghem, J. A. Gomez
Summary: The use of fallout radionuclides as proxies for studying soil redistribution in semiarid Southern Spain is mostly limited to Cs-137. Considering the constraints posed by the study area, the potential and limitations of alternative proxies such as Pu239+240 and Pb-210(xs) should be explored.
JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Filippo Milazzo, Richard M. Francksen, Mohamed Abdalla, Simone Ravetto Enri, Laura Zavattaro, Marco Pittarello, Stanislav Hejduk, Paul Newell-Price, Rene L. M. Schils, Pete Smith, Tom Vanwalleghem
Summary: Grasslands are threatened by unsustainable management practices and climate change, which can lead to degradation. This article focuses on soil quality indicators (SQIs) and their importance in assessing the sustainability of grassland management practices. Two potential solutions are discussed, including adopting sustainable grazing management plans (GMPs) and developing novel grassland species to improve resilience to drought and erosion. Sustainable soil management in grasslands can enhance ecosystem services and increase resilience to anthropogenic changes.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Antonio Madueno Luna, Miriam Lopez Lineros, Javier Estevez Gualda, Juan Vicente Giraldez Cervera, Jose Miguel Madueno Luna
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Maria del Pilar Jimenez-Donaire, Ana Tarquis, Juan Vicente Giraldez
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2020)
