Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors

X Zhang, Z Hao, VP Singh, Y Zhang, S Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is a costly natural hazard with far-reaching impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, water
supply, and socio-economy. While propagating through the water cycle, drought evolves into …

Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

G Forzieri, V Dakos, NG McDowell, A Ramdane… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and
anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience) 1. Experimental evidence of sudden …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

F Chiang, O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Most climate change detection and attribution studies have focused on mean or extreme
temperature or precipitation, neglecting to explore long-term changes in drought …

Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence

C Wu, J Peng, P Ciais, J Peñuelas, H Wang… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming delays the autumn date of foliar senescence (DFS) in recent decades, with
positive implications for growing season length and therefore global carbon storage …

Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems

Y Li, W Zhang, CR Schwalm, P Gentine… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The time required for an ecosystem to recover from severe drought is a key component of
ecological resilience. The phenology effects on drought recovery are, however, poorly …

Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures

A Descals, DLA Gaveau, A Verger, D Sheil, D Naito… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Arctic fires can release large amounts of carbon from permafrost peatlands. Satellite
observations reveal that fires burned~ 4.7 million hectares in 2019 and 2020, accounting for …

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 …