Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant–plant interactions under climate change: a large‐scale experiment

J Metz, K Tielbörger - Functional Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… under drier climate change conditions, as … aridity gradient provided comparable results that
is, whether spatial or temporal approaches are suitable proxies for evaluating climate change

Climate change impacts on freshwater wetland hydrology and vegetation cover cycling along a regional aridity gradient

PA Fay, GR Guntenspergen, JH Olker… - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… approach to mitigating climate change impacts on freshwater wetlands across … aridity
gradients. Conservation strategies need to account for aridity‐specific effects of climate change on …

Distinguishing the effects of climate change and vegetation greening on soil moisture variability along aridity gradient in the drylands of northern China

L Xu, G Gao, X Wang, B Fu - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
… moisture variability along aridity gradient in the northern … changes in vegetation cover and
SM across aridity gradients during 1981–2018, (2) quantify the contributions of climate change

Increasing climate sensitivity of subtropical conifers along an aridity gradient

J Su, X Gou, J HilleRisLambers, Y Deng, H Fan… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… chronologies along a broad climate gradient that spans from east to … We found that aridity
exerted the strongest limitation in our … forests of China might respond to future climate change. …

Germination strategies under climate change scenarios along an aridity gradient

A Zogas, E Kosman, M Sternberg - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Climate change in the eastern Mediterranean region will have … against climatic uncertainty
determined by climate change. … species present along an aridity gradient. Data were obtained …

Identifying the responses of vegetation gross primary productivity and water use efficiency to climate change under different aridity gradients across China

X Li, L Zou, J Xia, F Wang, H Li - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
… Based on MODIS and GLDAS data, this study analyzed the dynamics of GPP and WUE in
different aridity gradients and the responses to climate change across China from 2001 to 2021…

Local adaptation of seed and seedling traits along a natural aridity gradient may both predict and constrain adaptive responses to climate change

K Christie, NR Pierson, DB Lowry… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… across a natural aridity gradient, leveraging natural intraspecific variation to predict how
populations might evolve in response to increasing aridity associated with climate change in the …

Impact of rainfall manipulations and biotic controls on soil respiration in Mediterranean and desert ecosystems along an aridity gradient

Y Talmon, M Sternberg… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
climate-change effects on CO 2 fluxes for time scales (such as approximated by aridity
gradients) that … We postulate that future climate change in heterogeneous ecosystems, such as …

Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands

M Berdugo, B Vidiella, RV Solé… - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… actions to combat climate change and desertification, we … change along aridity gradients
shows three major abrupt shifts in multiple ecosystem attributes associated with three aridity

A field test of the stress‐gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient

C Armas, S Rodríguez‐Echeverría… - Journal of Vegetation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… Aims: The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts how plant interactions change along
environmental stress gradients. We tested the SGH in an aridity gradient, where support for the …