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Terrestrial Precipitation Analysis (TPA): A resource for characterizing long-term precipitation regimes and extremes

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(2016) Markus G. Donat et al.   Nature Climate Change

Experiments to confront the environmental extremes of climate change

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

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Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

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

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Prolonged experimental drought reduces plant hydraulic conductance and transpiration and increases mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland

(2015) Robert E. Pangle et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Response of a mixed grass prairie to an extreme precipitation event

(2015) Amy L. Concilio et al.   Ecosphere

Water stress due to increased intra-annual precipitation variability reduced forage yield but raised forage quality of a temperate grassland

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Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

(2014) David L. Hoover et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes

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

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Physiology-based prognostic modeling of the influence of changes in precipitation on a keystone dryland plant species

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

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Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

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Identifying external influences on global precipitation

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Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

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Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes

(2013) E. M. Fischer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Automated rainfall manipulation system: a reliable and inexpensive tool for ecologists

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Dynamics of evapotranspiration partitioning in a semi-arid forest as affected by temporal rainfall patterns

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Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

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Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

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Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

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Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation

(2012) Scott L. Collins et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Urgent need for a common metric to make precipitation manipulation experiments comparable

(2012) S. Vicca et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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Increased rainfall variability reduces biomass and forage quality of temperate grassland largely independent of mowing frequency

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

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

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Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2010) MICHELL L. THOMEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

(2010) YIQI LUO 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

Whole-system responses of experimental plant communities to climate extremes imposed in different seasons

(2010) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2009) Melinda D. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY

Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

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Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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