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

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands

(2015) Alan K. Knapp et al.   OECOLOGIA

Climate, vegetation, and soil controls on hydraulic redistribution in shallow tree roots

(2014) Kailiang Yu et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Functional response of U.S. grasslands to the early 21st-century drought

(2014) M. Susan Moran et al.   ECOLOGY

Intra-annual rainfall regime shifts competitive interactions between coastal sage scrub and invasive grasses

(2014) Leah J. Goldstein et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Kevin R. Wilcox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Attribution and Characteristics of Wet and Dry Seasons in the Upper Colorado River Basin

(2014) Rebecca A. Bolinger et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Seasonal not annual rainfall determines grassland biomass response to carbon dioxide

(2014) Mark J. Hovenden et al.   NATURE

Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

(2014) Peter Greve et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2014) Kirsten K. Coe et al.   OECOLOGIA

Observational- and model-based trends and projections of extreme precipitation over the contiguous United States

(2014) Emily Janssen et al.   Earths Future

Precipitation amount, seasonality and frequency regulate carbon cycling of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia, China: A modeling analysis

(2013) Shushi Peng et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Increased rainfall frequency triggers an increase in litter fall rates of reproductive structures in an arid eucalypt woodland

(2013) Samantha K. Travers et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales

(2013) L. H. Zeglin et al.   ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of selection: Phenotypic differences among genotypes explain patterns of selection in a dominant species

(2013) Meghan L. Avolio et al.   ECOLOGY

Clinal adaptation and adaptive plasticity inArtemisia californica: implications for the response of a foundation species to predicted climate change

(2013) Jessica D. Pratt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

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

Identifying external influences on global precipitation

(2013) K. Marvel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Woody plant encroachment facilitated by increased precipitation intensity

(2013) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   Nature Climate Change

Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes

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

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

(2012) Naama Raz-Yaseef et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

(2012) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Effects of rainfall amount and frequency on vegetation growth in a Tibetan alpine meadow

(2012) Baocheng Zhang et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Positive impacts of precipitation intensity on monthly CO2 fluxes in North America

(2012) Chaoyang Wu et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Unexpected patterns of sensitivity to drought in three semi-arid grasslands

(2012) Karie Cherwin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000

(2012) P. J. Durack et al.   SCIENCE

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

Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

(2011) Seung-Ki Min et al.   NATURE

Hydraulic adjustments underlying drought resistance of Pinus halepensis

(2011) T. Klein et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California

(2011) Michael D. Dettinger et al.   Water

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

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

Rainfall distribution is the main driver of runoff under future CO2-concentration in a temperate deciduous forest

(2009) SEBASTIAN LEUZINGER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation of Dry Days Since Last Rain (DDSLR) as a measure of dryness along a Mediterranean – Arid transect

(2009) Y. Aviad et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

(2008) DIETER GERTEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Low impact of climate change on subalpine grasslands in the Swiss Northern Alps

(2008) PASCAL VITTOZ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY