Evapotranspiration (ET)—the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by
vegetation—is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine …

Global land water underpins livelihoods, socioeconomic development, and ecosystems. It
remains unclear how water availability has changed in recent decades. Using an ensemble …

Terrestrial water fluxes are substantially mediated by vegetation, while the distribution,
growth, health, and mortality of plants are strongly influenced by the availability of water …

Recent concurrent processes of vegetation greening and reduced resilience (the capacity to
recover from disturbances) worldwide have brought many uncertainties into sustainable …

Soil moisture (SM) is essential for sustaining services from Earth's critical zone, a thin-living
skin spanning from the canopy to groundwater. In the Anthropocene epoch, intensive …

Afforestation can play a key role in local climate mitigation by influencing local temperature
through changes in land surface properties. Afforestation impacts depend strongly on the …

Large-scale deforestation alters water availability through its direct effect on runoff
generation and indirect effect through forest-climate feedbacks. However, these direct and …

Abstract The Loess Plateau of China has witnessed a remarkable greening trend due to
vegetation restoration in recent decades. However, the precipitation response to greening …

Vegetation has critical effects on land–atmosphere substance and energy exchange,
however, it is not yet clear how large-scale revegetation alters ecosystem constraints to …

Despite recent advances in modeling forest–rainfall relationships, the current understanding
of changes in observed rainfall patterns resulting from historical deforestation remains …