The rooting-zone water-storage capacity—the amount of water accessible to plants—
controls the sensitivity of land–atmosphere exchange of water and carbon during dry …

Plants invest a considerable amount of leaf nitrogen in the photosynthetic enzyme ribulose-
1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO), forming a strong coupling of nitrogen …

Satellite retrievals of information about the Earth's surface are widely used to monitor global
terrestrial photosynthesis and primary production and to examine the ecological impacts of …

Terrestrial primary productivity and carbon cycle impacts of droughts are commonly
quantified using vapour pressure deficit (VPD) data and remotely sensed greenness, without …

Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Although 19th-century
plant geographers noted that the wet tropics harbor plants with exceptionally large leaves …

Earth system models (ESM s) use photosynthetic capacity, indexed by the maximum
Rubisco carboxylation rate (Vcmax), to simulate carbon assimilation and typically rely on …

Terrestrial photosynthesis is the basis for vegetation growth and drives the land carbon
cycle. Accurately simulating gross primary production (GPP, ecosystem-level apparent …

Anthropogenically driven declines in tropical savannah burnt area, have recently received
attention due to their effect on trends in global burnt area,. Large-scale trends in ecosystems …

Global patterns of leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry have been interpreted
as reflecting phenotypic plasticity in response to the environment, or as an overriding effect …

Drought is a globally relevant hazard, and while various studies have investigated the
relationship between droughts and different climate and ecosystem variables, they are often …