How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better

IJ Slette, AK Post, M Awad, T Even… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Drought, widely studied as an important driver of ecosystem dynamics, is predicted to
increase in frequency and severity globally. To study drought, ecologists must define or at …

The role of species interactions for forest resilience to drought

S Haberstroh, C Werner - Plant Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing durations and frequencies of droughts under climate change endanger the
sustainable functioning of forests worldwide. The admixture of species with complementary …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts

WRL Anderegg, AT Trugman, G Badgley… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink,–. While the impacts of single droughts on forests …

[HTML][HTML] Climate, conflict and forced migration

GJ Abel, M Brottrager, JC Cuaresma… - Global environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

Effects and contributions of meteorological drought on agricultural drought under different climatic zones and vegetation types in Northwest China

S Cao, L Zhang, Y He, Y Zhang, Y Chen, S Yao… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Meteorological drought is one of the driving forces behind agricultural drought. The
response of agricultural drought to meteorological drought remains poorly understood under …

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

F Isbell, D Craven, J Connolly, M Loreau, B Schmid… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which
are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide. Early results suggested that the ecosystem …

Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

S Beguería, SM Vicente‐Serrano… - … journal of climatology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was developed in 2010 and
has been used in an increasing number of climatology and hydrology studies. The objective …

Candidate distributions for climatological drought indices (SPI and SPEI)

JH Stagge, LM Tallaksen, L Gudmundsson… - International Journal of …, 2015 - library.wur.nl
The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), a well-reviewed meteorological drought index
recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and its more recent …

Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment

S Seneviratne, N Nicholls, D Easterling… - 2012 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
An extreme (weather or climate) event is generally defined as the occurrence of a value of a
weather or climate variable above (or below) a threshold value near the upper (or lower) …