A brown wave of riparian woodland mortality following groundwater declines during the 2012–2019 California drought

As droughts become more frequent and more severe under anthropogenic climate change, water stress due to diminished subsurface supplies may threaten the health and function of semi-arid riparian woodlands, which are assumed to be largely groundwater dependent. To better support the management of rip...

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Main Authors: Christopher L Kibler, E Claire Schmidt, Dar A Roberts, John C Stella, Li Kui, Adam M Lambert, Michael Bliss Singer
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/ac1377