Rootzone storage capacity reveals drought coping strategies along rainforest-savanna transitions

Climate change and deforestation have increased the risk of drought-induced forest-to-savanna transitions across the tropics and subtropics. However, the present understanding of forest-savanna transitions is generally focused on the influence of rainfall and fire regime changes, but does not take i...

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Main Authors: Chandrakant Singh, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Ingo Fetzer, Johan Rockström, Ruud van der Ent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc377