Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Plants and vegetation play a critical—but largely unpredictable—role in global
environmental changes due to the multitude of contributing processes at widely different …

Models of plant water fluxes have evolved from studies focussed on understanding the
detailed structure and functioning of specific components of the soil–plant–atmosphere …

The nutrient demands of regrowing tropical forests are partly satisfied by nitrogen-fixing
legume trees, but our understanding of the abundance of those species is biased towards …

Plant water use theory has largely been developed within a plant‐performance paradigm
that conceptualizes water use in terms of value for carbon gain and that sits within a …

Climatic changes have profound effects on the distribution of biodiversity, but untangling the
links between climatic change and ecosystem functioning is challenging, particularly in high …

Considering the global intensification of aridity in tropical biomes due to climate change, we
need to understand what shapes the distribution of drought sensitivity in tropical plants. We …

Droughts affect ecosystems at multiple time scales, but their sub‐seasonal legacy effects on
vegetation activity remain unclear. Combining the satellite‐based enhanced vegetation …

Leaf habit has been hypothesized to define a linkage between the slow‐fast plant economic
spectrum and the drought resistance‐avoidance trade‐off in tropical forests ('slow‐safe vs …

Introduction: The interplay of water and light, regarded as the main driver of tropical plant
dynamics, determines leaf phenology and ecosystem productivity. Leaf phenology has been …