Extreme wet events as important as extreme dry events in controlling spatial patterns of vegetation greenness anomalies

Understanding plant responses to hydrological extremes is critical for projections of the future terrestrial carbon uptake, but much more is known about the impacts of drought than of extreme wet conditions. However, the latter may control ecosystem-scale photosynthesis more strongly than the former...

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Main Authors: Caroline A Famiglietti, Anna M Michalak, Alexandra G Konings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfc78