Contrasting responses of water use efficiency to drought across global terrestrial ecosystems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yang, Yuting ^a,b   Guan, Huade ^a,c   Batelaan, Okke ^a,c   McVicar, Tim R ^b,d   Long, Di ^e   Piao, Shilong ^f   Liang, Wei ^g   Liu, Bing ^h   Jin, Zhao ^g   Simmons, Craig T ^a,c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^d ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; WATER;

EID: 84961813295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23284     Document Type: Article

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