Reconciling seasonal hydraulic risk and plant water use through probabilistic soil–plant dynamics

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 3758-3769

  Feng, Xue ^a,b   Dawson, Todd E ^c   Ackerly, David D ^c   Santiago, Louis S ^d   Thompson, Sally E ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

drought response; plant hydraulic risk; rainfall variability; soil plant feedback; stochastic soil moisture dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER USE;

EID: 85014172793     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13640     Document Type: Article

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