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Twenty years of irrigation acclimation is driven by denser canopies and not by plasticity in twig- and needle-level hydraulics in a Pinus sylvestris forest

Charlotte Grossiord, Christoph Bachofen, Eugénie Isabelle Mas, Hervé Cochard, Alice Jacqueline Frédérique Gauthey, Alex Tunas Corzon

Climate change is predicted to increase atmospheric vapor pressure deficit, exacerbating soil drought, and thus enhancing tree evaporative demand and mortality. Yet, few studies have addressed the longer-term drought acclimation strategy of trees, particul ...

Oxford2024

From COP21 pledges to a fair 2°C pathway

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

At COP21, about 160 countries proposed the so-called INDCs that define GHG abatement objectives by 2030. While encouraging, these commitments are not ambitious enough to achieve the 2°C threshold by 2100, and further negotiations are needed for sharing the ...

2018

Soil–plant–atmosphere conditions regulating convective cloud formation above southeastern US pine plantations

Gabriele Manoli, Gabriel George Katul

Loblolly pine trees (Pinus taeda L.) occupy more than 20% of the forested area in the southern United States, represent more than 50% of the standing pine volume in this region, and remove from the atmosphere about 500 g C murn:x-wiley:13541013:media:gcb13 ...

2016

Modeling and assessing scenarios of common property pastures management in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

Common property pastures (CPPs) in the Alps served as examples for successful self-governed resource use. During the past fewdecades, the situation has changed, and abandonment of marginal pastureswith subsequent forest regrowth has been widely observed. T ...

Elsevier2015

Long-term organic carbon turnover rates in natural and semi-natural topsoils

Robert Thomas Edmund Mills

We combined published and new radiocarbon and ancillary data for uncultivated topsoils (typically 15 cm depth), to make two databases, one for the United Kingdom (133 sites), and one global (114 sites). Forest topsoils are significantly higher in radiocarb ...

Springer2014

A simplified permafrost-carbon model for long-term climate studies with the CLIMBER-2 coupled earth system model

Jérôme Chappellaz

We present the development and validation of a simplified permafrost-carbon mechanism for use with the land surface scheme operating in the CLIMBER-2 earth system model. The simplified model estimates the permafrost fraction of each grid cell according to ...

Copernicus GmbH2014

Use of a Distributed Sensor Network to Parameterize a Model of Flows between the Soil, Vegetation, and Atmosphere in a Mixed Savanna-Agricultural Catchment in South Eastern Burkina Faso.

Natalie Claire Ceperley

The hydrologic processes underlying a natural savanna in a semi-arid environment is altered when savanna is converted to agriculture. Inﬁltration is often observed to decrease while rapid runoff increases to the detriment of crop productivity, downstream p ...

2012

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