As well-established drivers of ecological pattern and process, aridity and drought are linked by a common focus on water limitation – with both aridity and especially drought projected to increase in...

Invasive plants often outcompete co-occurring native species by expressing acquisitive functional traits that promote high photosynthetic capacity. However, it remains unclear whether these traits a...

As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

Globally, grassy ecosystems (including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, woodlands, and tundra) cover 30 to 40% of the land and provide important benefits such as climate change mitigation and adaptat...

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The partitioning of photosynthate among various forest carbon pools is a key process regulating long-term carbon sequestration, with allocation to aboveground woody biomass carbon (AGBC) in particul...

Causes, consequences, and potentials for recovery from invasions by the invasive annual grass, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), in western North America have been extensively documented. The vast majori...

Understanding and monitoring ecological responses is important as droughts last longer

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By exploring the impacts of both drought and wet extremes, our work uncovers how precipitation events, which may not necessarily impact productivity directly, could still cryptically influence resili...

Abstract. Increasing intensity and frequency of climate extremes under climate change are expected to affect rainfall-constrained ecosystems, particularly

The intensification of climate-induced precipitation change poses a dual challenge to terrestrial ecosystems: immediate effects on their structure and…

Network science can improve the sustainable development of solar energy, Taylor Bacon, Timothy Ohlert, Christopher Toy, J Alexander Siggers, Matthew A Sturchio

Our results show that shrub species encroaching in tallgrass prairie span a spectrum of growth forms and resource-use strategies. Two of the most abundant encroaching species fell at opposite ends of...

In October, India surpassed 200 GW of renewable energy capacity, accounting for 46.3% of the country’s electricity generation. It marks a significant milestone, which pushes the world’s third-largest ...

Globally, the combustion of fossil fuels represents the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions, and as such, a transition to renewable forms of energy provides the greatest potential for mitigatin...

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The optimum temperature (Topt) of global vegetation activity has increased rapidly, by 0.63 per decade over 1982–2020 The increase in Topt closely tracked the increase in air temperature, reveali...

Ecovoltaics incorporates ecological principles into the design of solar arrays, enabling a more sustainable approach to renewable energy. While conceptually appealing, there are few examples detailing...

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In arid and semiarid systems of western North America, the most damaging invasive plants are winter annuals. These plants are destroying wildlife habitat, reducing livestock production, and increasin...