Drought is expected to increase in future climate scenarios. Although responses to drought
of individual functional traits are relatively well‐known, simultaneous changes across …

Seeds provide the basis of genetic diversity in perennial grassland communities and their
traits may influence ecosystem resistance to extreme drought. However, we know little about …

Plant traits are useful proxies of plant strategies and can influence community and
ecosystem responses to climate extremes, such as severe drought. Few studies, however …

Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) reflect the carbon balance in trees and play a central
role in their responses to environmental stresses. However, our understanding of tree NSC …

Biological soil crusts and the mosaic distribution of vascular plants have become an
important landscape feature on the desert surface owing to limited water. The desert shrub …

Climate change will likely increase weather persistence in the mid-latitudes, resulting in
precipitation regimes (PR) with longer dry and wet periods compared to historic averages …

The more frequent occurrence and severer drought events resulting from climate change are
increasingly affecting the physiological performance of trees and ecosystem carbon …

Current increases in not only the intensity and frequency but also the duration of drought
events could affect the growth, physiology, and mortality of trees. We experimentally studied …

With the acceleration of global warming, droughts are expected to both intensify and
become more frequent. More so than forests, the productivity of grasslands is largely …

Aims Grazing different grasslands with seasonal changes is the tradition in pastoral systems
in natural grassland regions worldwide. The effects and mechanisms of different grazing …