Water-use efficiency: advances and challenges in a changing climate

JL Hatfield, C Dold - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Water use efficiency (WUE) is defined as the amount of carbon assimilated as biomass or
grain produced per unit of water used by the crop. One of the primary questions being asked …

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

A global review on hydrological responses to forest change across multiple spatial scales: Importance of scale, climate, forest type and hydrological regime

M Zhang, N Liu, R Harper, Q Li, K Liu, X Wei, D Ning… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite extensive studies on hydrological responses to forest cover change in small
watersheds, the hydrological responses to forest change and associated mechanisms …

Forest water-use efficiency: Effects of climate change and management on the coupling of carbon and water processes

Z Zhang, L Zhang, H Xu, IF Creed, JA Blanco… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests are essential in regulating global carbon and water cycles and are critical in
mitigating climate change. Water-use efficiency, defined by the ratio of plant productivity per …

A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–2020

S He, Y Zhang, N Ma, J Tian, D Kong… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate high-resolution actual evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary production (GPP)
information is essential for understanding the large-scale water and carbon dynamics …

Contributions of climate change, elevated atmospheric CO2 and human activities to ET and GPP trends in the Three-North Region of China

S Xie, X Mo, S Hu, S Liu - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantifying and distinguishing the contributions of climate change, elevated atmospheric
CO 2 concentration (eCO 2) and human activities to evapotranspiration (ET) and gross …

Water use efficiency of China's terrestrial ecosystems and responses to drought

Y Liu, J Xiao, W Ju, Y Zhou, S Wang, X Wu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Water use efficiency (WUE) measures the trade-off between carbon gain and water loss of
terrestrial ecosystems and better understanding its dynamics and controlling factors is …

Regional contributions to interannual variability of net primary production and climatic attributions

H Li, Y Wu, S Liu, J Xiao - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change profoundly affects the interannual variability (IAV) of net primary production
(NPP) of terrestrial ecosystem from multiple aspects. However, the IAV of the nationwide …

Variation in actual evapotranspiration and its ties to climate change and vegetation dynamics in northwest China

L Yang, Q Feng, M Zhu, L Wang, MR Alizadeh… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Actual evapotranspiration (ET a) has significantly increased under recent climate and
vegetation changes. Discriminating the primary driver of ET a variation would improve our …

Evapotranspiration components and water use efficiency from desert to alpine ecosystems in drylands

H Wang, X Li, J Xiao, M Ma - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water use efficiency (WUE), the ratio of carbon gain to water loss, is an important
physiological indicator in assessing the interactions between the carbon and water cycles …