Biomass-based materials for solar-powered seawater evaporation

Z Li, S Wei, Y Ge, Z Zhang, Z Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Clean and safe water is crucial to maintaining human life on earth. Solar-powered seawater
desalination (SSD) is a promising and feasible way to use solar energy resources to …

Strategies of tree species to adapt to drought from leaf stomatal regulation and stem embolism resistance to root properties

Z Chen, S Li, X Wan, S Liu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Considerable evidences highlight the occurrence of increasing widespread tree mortality as
a result of global climate change-associated droughts. However, knowledge about the …

Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation

X Li, S Piao, C Huntingford, J Peñuelas… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the thresholds of drought that, if crossed, suppress vegetation functioning is vital
for accurate quantification of how land ecosystems respond to climate variability and …

Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality

P Hajek, RM Link, CA Nock, J Bauhus… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented tree dieback across Central Europe caused by recent global change‐type
drought events highlights the need for a better mechanistic understanding of drought …

Leaf physiological and morphological constraints of water-use efficiency in C3 plants

P Petrík, A Petek-Petrik, M Mukarram, B Schuldt… - AoB Plants, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The increasing evaporative demand due to climate change will significantly affect the
balance of carbon assimilation and water losses of plants worldwide. The development of …

Introduction of broadleaf tree species can promote the resource use efficiency and gross primary productivity of pure forests

Z Liu, X Wang, G Jia, J Jiang… - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term pure forest (PF) management and successive planting has result resulted in “low‐
efficiency artificial forests” in large areas. However, controversy persists over the promoting …

Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

L Sachsenmaier, F Schnabel, P Dietrich… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The frequency of consecutive drought years is predicted to increase due to climate change.
These droughts have strong negative impacts on forest ecosystems. Mixing tree species is …

Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations

T Kattenborn, S Wieneke, D Montero… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Earth observation data is key for monitoring vegetation dynamics across temporal and
spatial scales. The most widely used method to estimate vegetation properties from Earth …

Leaf trait modification in European beech trees in response to climatic and edaphic drought

G Weithmann, B Schuldt, RM Link, D Heil… - Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf morphological and physiological traits control the carbon and water relations of mature
trees and are determinants of drought tolerance, but it is not well understood how they are …

Physiological recovery of tree water relations upon drought release—response of mature beech and spruce after five years of recurrent summer drought

BD Hesse, T Gebhardt, BD Hafner, K Hikino… - Tree …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As climate change progresses, the frequency and duration of drought stress events are
increasing. While the mechanisms of drought acclimation of trees has received considerable …